Challenge: As a producer of high quality video content, how do we deliver our content to a wide audience via the web while allowing advertising revenue to fund continued content creation?

Solution: Creation of a high traffic web site that provides management capabilities for all the video related data and accepts automated uploads of the video content.

Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, Google Ad Manager, jQuery, Asynchronous processing, Geokit geolocation, RSS, Sphinx full-text search

Description: A web application was created that allows video producers to enter and maintain all information relating to videos, including searchable text, image thumbnails and flash video files. To maximize availability and video speed, the video content is delivered via a content delivery network (CDN). Automated processes were created to handle the uploading of new video content, and the creation of searchable transcripts of the videos.

Challenge: How can I create a web site where people can find each other based on any criteria of interest to them? A place where a tennis enthusiast or a gourmand can meet like-minded individuals?

Solution: Creation of a fully customizable survey and search engine integrated with a plethora of contact and credibility checking technologies.

Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, Faceted Search, OmniDate, jQuery, Geokit geolocation, Honesty Online

Description: The CodeSherpas team created a web application capable of creating dynamically generated web based surveys from a large population. Once entered, this data is then searchable and can be found by anyone seeking matching criteria. Once matches are found, the site provides multiple methods of initiating contact, ranging from private email or voice mail, to audio or video chat and the very popular, virtual online dates.

Challenge: How can I respond to a high volume of Short Message Service (SMS) requests for information on various topics?

Solution: Integration with an SMS service provider to provide customizable information to requestors.

Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, SMS, High Availability (HA) Linux platform

Description: CodeSherpas created a site allowing users to create short message and email data sets available on on demand when user’s request information. The site was integrated with Open Market to respond to SMS requests from cellular devices and respond with the requested data in an automated and immediate fashion. Reporting capabilities were created for the information providers.

Challenge: Create a web site where users can upload their own photos to create custom, life-size, vinyl wall clings.

Solution: E-commerce web site developed and launched with a short deadline in time for the Christmas holiday.

Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, Paypal, UPS web service

Description: Developed an e-commerce application where users can upload and edit high resolution photos and place orders for life sized vinyl wall clings. Developed a shopping cart with integrated credit card processing for ordering processing and fulfillment. Integrated with UPS web service for shipping calculations and notifications.

Challenge: Last year, study data was collected on paper surveys. For the analysis phase, data entry and clean up cost over $30,000. How can we reduce these costs and increase data integrity?

Solution: Creation of digital forms, both web-based and PDF forms that enter and validate data, as it is collected instead of in separate phases.

Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, Adobe PDF Forms, Open Flash Chart reporting

Description: CodeSherpas created an easy to use web site where data can be collected in forms that have a similar look and feel as the paper versions. In cases where data is collected in the field, easy to use PDF forms were created for use on rugged and mobile Tablet PCs. Data is entered via the tablet’s touch screen with a stylus. Handwritten entries are converted to text on the fly.