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"100's of clients, 100,000's of users, make it work"
Skinkers Communication asked us to do some contracting work to bring our internet knowledge to their team while they worked on the newest version of their desktop alerting software. You have probably seen a version of it on one of the sites you have visited. It sits on your desktop flashing up a message every now and then from the server. The BBC news alert is probably the most famous one they have done.
We still continue to do work for Skinkers and since starting we have managed to write a number of developments for them as well as doing some R & D for them and offering consulation on all things Internet related.
Items of note include:
- Creating a RSS Feed Normaliser which will convert most RSS Feeds into a generic RSS Object collection.
- A similar ATOM Feed Normaliser.
- Multi-threaded Feed Reader which will hit multiple RSS/ATOM feeds and suck them into a database.
- Loads of R&D stuff using .Net goodies for various bits of kit they needed, all very hush hush.