PNDLM
The continuation of »netrousoxide. Formed by Colin in 2011, PNDLM is a software design team helping startups and innovating enterprises evolve ideas into money-making realities.
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Xbox Product Trainer
Microsoft's Retail Channel required a quick way to get hot new game information out to the greater sales force. The solution was a CSS-skinable XSL transformation. All it takes is a simple XML stream to build out an entire course.
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In-Store Touchscreen Kiosk
Virgin Megastores required a new touchscreen kiosk for their stores in the US, which allowed in-store customers to browse through and get details on available products.
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Virgin Megastores required a new touchscreen kiosk for their stores in the US, which allowed in-store customers to browse through and get details on available products. The finished application was written in Mozilla XUL/JavaScript (running atop a lightened, unskinned version of the Mozilla engine) and deployed on custom embedded flash memory-based Linux systems.
The photo shown below was from the first deployment of two systems at the Hollywood, CA store grand opening on October 17, 2005. The product showcase unit that the touchscreens are bolted onto was designed and built by MTI Inc. of Hillsboro, OR. » Less |
HP infolab
Now, instead of spending 2-3 hours removing or adding links from dozens of documents when someone changes their mind about one resource, it's a simple sub-60-second change.
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HP's many online sales training courses are all accompanied by a large amount of supporting materials. PDFs, demos, videos, and animations are all part of the toolbox a sales person is likely to delve into when they need to find out more about a product. Static HTML tables were OK at first... but hundreds of courses and documents later, it was becoming much harder to maintain the structures across these huge websites. With XML as a beacon of light, the tables were transformed into XML/XSL-driven widgets that can be shared across pages. Now, instead of spending 2-3 hours removing or adding links from dozens of documents when someone changes their mind about one resource, it's a simple sub-60-second change. And as a side benefit, the time it takes to build a new page with resources is about half of what it was before. » Less |
Via Training
Without a templating engine to assist them with their own corporate site, the webmasters were wasting cycles editing all static HTML pages.
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The webmasters at Via Training had gotten so busy making huge sales training websites for its many Fortune 500 clients that they didn't have time to waste updating and maintaining their own websitea five year old set of unmanagable static HTML pages.
Enter Netrous. The solution was borna lightweight engine using OO PHP and JavaScript that generates all pages from a simple template, and creates DHTML menus and breadcrumbs from a sitemap XML file. Launching to the public September 2005. » Less |
New Edge Networks
Thanks to the nature of Boolean algebra, there is no theoretical limit on the business rules that could be written to restrict access to a piece of content.
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In 2002, national broadband provider New Edge Networks was managing to stay in business through an awful telecom slump by being very flexible about their business plan and partner policies. Ultimately the company morphed from a wholesale provider of DSL into a combination wholesale provider/direct sale ISP of all types of business-class broadband. In doing this, the company launched uncountable quantities of partner and reseller programs, all with widely different goals and restrictions. One thing they all had in common, however, was that they needed a single base of information and applications that they could access at any time.
The extranet that exists today is called the Partner Network, powered by a technology called XEP, which was developed specifically for the project's needs. Built entirely with open source tools, the XEP engine is now running all public-facing websites and extranets of broadband provider New Edge Networks. (View screenshot) What is special about the XEP engine is its ability to handle incredibly detailed content customization rules based on user role. All site content is stored in pure XML using standard XHTML markup in addition to special permissions tags which can be wrapped around any part of the content. The permissions tags each have a Boolean algrebra equation which, when evaluated at run-time based on the user's roles, determines if the user can see the content inside of the tags. Thanks to the nature of Boolean algebra, there is no theoretical limit on the business rules that could be written to restrict access to a single piece of content. » New Edge Networks website » Less |