As a creator of custom applications we have to be able to
deploy the very latest cutting-edge development tools. Our
preferred development platform is the Microsoft.NET
framework because the development environment provides the
best opportunities to utilise Rapid Application Development
(RAD) principles to reduce cost to clients whilst
maintaining high quality and performance.
Specifically the tools and standards employed by
Nexus for most new applications are:
- ASP.NET (with JavaScript for client side operations)
for web forms and GUI's.
- C#/VB for application code.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 as the Database Management
System (DMNS).
- Microsoft Server 2003 (running IIS 6) as the server
operating system.
Additionally we support older versions of the above
standards including previous ASP.NET and old asp versions,
and previous SQL Server and windows operating systems. The Microsoft
model is currently the preferred model although the Nexus
development team are able to work using many different
standards, languages and tools, and are often called upon to
do so to integrate with 3rd party systems and
applications. Sometimes we write systems in PHP, JAVA,
JSP or other non-Microsoft languages when the client-server,
hardware and applications will only support those standards.
Additionally, we are able to work with a number of DBMS
including: IBM DB2 Oracle 9i, and MySQL
Almost all tlmNexus applications now utilise standard
internet web browsers to deliver application interfaces to
users. As such all Nexus GUIs conform to XHTML
1.0. The look and feel of sites is based almost
predominantly on CSS 2.0 which gives greater control over
changes to layout and conformity of layout and design.
Our web interfaces are designed to comply with W3C
standards which ensures that they display properly on
the majority of browsers. Applications are tested
thoroughly on IE 6.0 and Mozilla Firefox 1.0 (and later
versions of both) which account for the vast majority ol our
clients' installed browsers.
