Stories bind us together. They make us unique.

Stories come in all shapes and sizes.
They're everywhere.

circus
child
workshop
concert
family
meeting
waiter
team

A story told well is a story remembered.

We can help you tell your story

We all live in an age of technology where hardware, software and networks have become woven into the fabric of life.

We've been developing software and websites since the 1990s. With backgrounds in computer hardware, embedded systems, software design and architecture we have broad expertise across a range of domains.

We love new challenges and working with people like you to make your stories a reality.

Whether it's modern, adaptable Web design...

Modelmakerij De Vorm website

http://www.devorm.com

ModelMakerij De Vorm is a Dutch modelmaker, specializing in large and small scale physical representations of real-world objects.

ModelMakerij De Vorm
Trails of Waterloo

Trails Waterloo utilizes the open data provided by the City of Waterloo to visualize the location of all known trails in the city.

Trails Waterloo
YoCWR website

http://www.yocwr.ca

Year of Code - Waterloo Region is an independent, non-profit, year long campaign from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016, to increase each person’s tech literacy across Waterloo Region, from kids to teens, adults to seniors.

Year of Code Waterloo Region

Web standards and practices are continually evolving. We think it makes the Internet a better place!

Some of the web technologies we use:

AngularJS
AngularJS

AngularJS is an open-source web application framework by Google and a community of individual developers and corporations to address many of the challenges encountered in developing single-page applications.

HTML5
HTML5

HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. It was finalized, and published, on 28 October 2014 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

CSS3
CSS3

CSS3 is the latest evolution of the Cascading Style Sheets language and aims at extending CSS2.1. It brings a lot of long-awaited novelties, like rounded corners, shadows, gradients, transitions or animations, as well as new layouts like multi-columns, flexible box or grid layouts.

jQuery
jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today, with installation on 65% of the top 10 million highest-trafficked sites on the Web.

Bootstrap
Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a free and open-source collection of tools for creating websites and web applications. It contains HTML- and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions.

PHP
PHP

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. As of January 2013, PHP was installed on more than 240 million websites (39% of those sampled) and 2.1 million web servers.

Wordpress
Wordpress

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 23.3% of the top 10 million websites as of January 2015.

Drupal
Drupal

Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP and used for websites ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

We take care to keep up with things, and we'll provide a custom handbuilt website or one built upon a variety of CMS platforms that we can host and maintain for you, or you can then maintain yourself.

Or innovative software solutions and custom applications

Here are just some of the other technologies we enjoy building stuff with:

D3
D3

D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, png and CSS.

NodeJS
NodeJS

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient.

Java
Java

Java is a general purpose programming language developed by Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation), that provides a cross-platform computing environment. Java is used in a wide variety of computing platforms from embedded devices and mobile phones to enterprise servers and supercomputers.

DICOM
DICOM

DICOM — Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine — is the international standard for medical images and related information (ISO 12052). It defines the formats for medical images that can be exchanged with the data and quality necessary for clinical use.

C++
C++

C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features, while also providing facilities for low-level memory manipulation.

.Net
.Net

.NET is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large class library known as Framework Class Library (FCL) and provides language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages) across several programming languages.

MySQL
MySQL

MySQL is a widely used open-source relational database management system. MySQL was owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation.

MongoDB
MongoDB

MongoDB is a free and open source cross-platform NoSQL database. It has a "document-oriented" hierarchical storage model, lending itself to fast storage and retrieval of complex objects.

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Based in Waterloo, Ontario Canada, we provide solutions for local and global businesses alike.

Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, London, Mississaugua, Toronto, etc.

We work very closely with our customers. We'll talk a lot - establishing milestones and reviewing intermediate stages of your project - to ensure that our services exceed your expectations.

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