Custom Software Development
What Is Custom Software Development?
Custom Software Development includes many types of activities. The activities that come to mind first with most people are the creation of new programs, and the enhancement of existing programs. However, there are other, less obvious activities that fall under the heading of custom software development, including:
- Writing scripts to control operating system processes
- Writing scripts and macros for use within packaged software, such as Microsoft Word and Excel
- Writing configuration files in XML or other specification formats to customize existing software
- Writing documentation for all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Writing test suites to run regression tests on software under development
- Evaluating tools and libraries used to develop software
- Creating development, build, defect tracking, and change control environments and policies to assist with software development
- Converting applications and their data from one computing language or environment to a different computing language or environment
Sometimes these small projects, or support tasks to software development, fall between the cracks when planning a project.
How Can Foundation Software Technology Help?
When venturing into the software development workshop, it is best to have a large collection of tools to choose from. Foundation Software Technology’s Principle Consultant, Christopher Johnson, has been working with computer hardware and software for over 25 years. In that time he has worked with many different computing languages on many different computer architectures, from machine language to high-level languages. Examples of the types of computing languages, environments, and projects undertaken by Christopher are listed here.
Computer Environments
- Unix (IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris)
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
- MS-DOS
Computing Languages
- Java
- Perl
- Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
- Unix Shells (Ksh, Bash, Csh, Sh)
- C
- C++
- Visual Basic
- Motorola MC68000 Assembly
Packages and Libraries
- Oracle Database programming (SQL & PL/SQL)
- Java Swing
- Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
- Quartz Scheduler (scheduler for Java)
- Hibernate (persistence library for Java)
- Java Servlets
- Apache CGI modules in Perl
- HTML and CSS
- HTTP-based Custom Web Services
- OpenSSH communications
- TCP/IP Sockets programming
- Applied Biosystems SQL*LIMS Laboratory Information Management System
- CVS / Subversion / Rational Clear Case SCM Software
- Oracle Forms and Reports
In addition, some software projects were FDA 21 CFR Part 11 validated systems for pharmaceutical manufacturing, and were required to comply with FDA Good Manufacturing Practices.
Please contact us to find out how Foundation Software Technology can help you with your software development project needs.