SmiffytechWeb Application Development & Technology Consulting

Welcome

Welcome to Smiffytech - my web application development and technology consulting business. I offer both a complete accessible web solutions development service and a back-end only software development service (Perl+MySQL, PHP by special request) for web developers.

In addition to my core business of software development, I also offer consultancy services across a broad range of technologies.

Services

  • Complete web application design including content management, e-commerce, survey systems, telemetry, educational, social networking and other solutions.
  • Web application back-end design
  • Consultancy in Unix-derived operating systems
  • SQL database design
  • Network design
  • Web spider and other automated user agent design
  • Web and software interface accessibility/usability analysis and repair
  • Web-based engineering and scientific calculators and configurators

Technologies

  • Unix-derived operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris)
  • Apache HTTPd
  • MySQL (and other SQLs)
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • E-mail (Postfix, Courier IMAP, DSPAM, SPF)
  • XHTML
  • SVG
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • XUL (Firefox, Thunderbird extensions)

Further Reading

For my full curriculum vitae, please see my LinkedIn Profile. All my articles on accessiblity and the web may be found at Smiffy's Place, my blog and personal site. Follow @smiffy on Twitter

Latest (Relevant) Articles at Smiffy's Place

  • In and Out of SVG - Whilst SVG is a great graphics format to work with, sometimes there is a need to import other formats into it or to export it to the likes of PDF. This article details a real-life application and techniques I used to import to and export from SVG.
  • Smiffy's Further Rules of Following - This sequel to the article, Smiffy's Rules of Following, discusses triaging Twitter followers, Evil Robots, and the benefits of pruning.
  • Accessible Twitter, Accessible Tweets - The Twitter web application leaves much to be desired from a usability/accessibility standpoint. However, the API allows others to provide alternative interfaces, such as Accessible Twitter. But just how accessible is the actual information conveyed in Twitter messages (tweets?)
  • Twitter: Smiffy's Rules of Following - Whom should one follow on Twitter in order to avoid information-overload and unproductive use of time? These are the rules that I am using currently.
  • @smiffytech - The Twitter and I - Smiffy has joined the Twitter crowd. Twitter is a powerful social networking tool, not the silly gimmick that first impressions might make it.
 

Affiliations

  • Guild of Accessible Web Designers
  • Web Standards Group Member - Web Standards Group
  • OzeWAI - the Australian Web Access Initiative

Matthew Steven Smith t/a Smiffytech ABN 16 391 203 815