We work mostly with Microsoft technologies. We also do Java. We are up to date with the latest versions. We also keep track of viable alternatives to Microsoft and its competition. While the list below is comprehensive, it is not complete. Please be sure to ask if you do not find what you are interested in from the list below:

Methodologies

·       Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)/ Software development Life Cycle (SDLC)

o    Agile (less process): MS Team Foundation Server, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Test Driven Development (TDD), Pair Programming

o    Other: Capability Maturity Model, HHS Enterprise Process Life Cycle EPLC, Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF == RUP), Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF == ITIL)

·    Architecture/Design: NIST/HHS Enterprise Architecture, Software Engineering Institute (SEI), UML, Object oriented analysis and design (OOAD), Enterprise Design Patterns  (Gang of Four, Martin Fowler, Microsoft Patterns & Practices, Java/.Net enterprise libraries, Application Refactor (Martin Fowler included)

·    Cloud Services: Azure, Windows 2008 R2 AppFramework

·    Testing: Performance, Functional, Unit, Automated

o    LoadRunner, VS Test, WATIN, NUnit, NUnitAsp, BadBoy, PEX, White box, AutomatedQA

·    Security: Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), MS Security guidance

Presentation Tier

·    Asp.Net: MVC, Razor, dependency injection; VS, Expression, WebMatrix, DotNetNuke, custom and third party server controls

·    SharePoint: Custom controls, VS, WSP, JQuery, JSON

·    SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS): non-/Interactive reports,

      report queue, configuration

·     XAML, Silverlight, WPF: We are familiar with these technologies and how these will work with Metro, and WinForms

·    Other: WinForms, InfoPath, MFC, XSLT, JQuery, JScript, …

Middle Tier/Data

·    Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) based services and their underlying technologies: Web Services (REST, SOAP), Web Service Enhancements (WSE), Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), BizTalk,  .Net Remoting, COM+, COM, IDL, Message Queuing Services (MQS),  Windows Services, SQL Jobs

·    Data: Ado.Net, ODBC, JDBC, SQL, CodeSmith

·    XML: XML, XSD,  XSLT,  XPath, XQuery

Operations

·    Configuration: Windows, IIS, SQL Server, Asp.Net, SharePoint,

·    Virtual: VMWare, VPC, Virtual Server,

·    Performance Monitoring/Reporting: Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), Idera(for SQL Server), Wildmetrix,  HttpWatch, Fiddler, IIS/SQL Trace

·    Production Debugging: SonOfStrike (SOS), WinDebug, Windows Resource Kit tools, IIS Resource Kit tools, Shell scripts, LogParser,

·    Source Control/Build System: Team Foundation Server (TFS) including TeamBuild/MSBuild, Cruise Control (CC), NANT, Visual Source Safe (VSS), Subversion