Services
Types of engagements
- Turnkey solutions
- Ongoing help with part of your product or operation
- Part-time member of your development team
- Resolution of specific issues or requirements
- Quick advice via e-mail or phone
Typical expertise provided
Development and problem resolution in the following areas:
- New or existing web applications, usually implemented in Python
- Web infrastructure, especially Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
- Native code system-level programming, especially in the area of networking, usually implemented in C or C++
Emptyhammock expertise is considerably more broad, allowing seamless approaches to broader issues.
Examples of recent work
- Emptyhammock projects
- Upgrades of Django, Django CMS, and other open source components in legacy web applications
- Authorize.Net and Square payment integration in Django applications
- Diagnosing and fixing critical issues in Apache httpd 2.4 on the Windows platform
- Enhancements to Java-language MBeans for configuration of a proprietary middleware product
- Creation of commands for Jython-based management of a proprietary middleware product
- Enhancing the reliability of Apache httpd MPMs for Unix in the presence of certain system attacks
- Development of a web-based tool for exploring process data collected with a debugger
- Resolving specific Apache httpd bug reports
- Implementing a web application on Google App Engine for a small business
- rich data entry and retrieval capabilities for use by employees
- mobile interface for customers
- Working in small teams on various commercial web applications using the Django framework
- Creating a patch, build, and test infrastructure for a commercial, cross-platform web stack with a number of open source and proprietary components
- Implementing a new authentication and authorization module for Apache httpd to support FastCGI features not previously available in existing modules implementing FastCGI
- Implementing Certificate Transparency support for Apache httpd, in new module mod_ssl_ct.
- Many other open source fixes and enhancements, some listed at ohloh