Selection of our Work

We have worked with Computerworld and other IDG brands over the last several years. Recently, we are building a new product entirely on Ruby on Rails. This project uses a full behavior-driven design along with Cucumber -based features. Part of this project is to provide training to in-house Computerworld developers as they learn best-practices from hands-on pair programming with Vermonster.

BELL, a Boston-based non-profit, commissioned Vermonster this past summer to create a campaign to promote summer learning for inner-city children. We quickly went to work and created a simple, clean and fully accessible design. Technically the website populates BELL's Salesforce.com new leads account.

Part of the campaign, we built a Facebook application that would display a call-to-action on users' "Facebook Wall" after signing the campaign.

This was a successful and fun project and we hope to have the opportunity to work with BELL's worthy causes in the future.

Who's Trendy is an internal project we quickly built to test out some of the new Twitter API features. It uses the search and trends API, to show which users have recently tweeted about a given hash-tag or search term. Admittedly there isn't all that much business value to the site, but was a blast to hack together in an afternoon.

Rallyclock is our internal timekeeping software that grew organically from a need to unobtrusively track our time. This is another Rails project, using a test-driven design. We worked on implementing an XMPP (Jabber) protocol to ease time tracking via IM.

Way back in 2005, we decided to try Rails to build a backoffice shipping application for IBC. Rails was fairly obscure then, but we decided to give it a try over rolling out another home-built MVC application. Fast forward almost 5 years and the application is still used on a daily basis, shipping out literally millions of pieces of mail.