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Develer company profile with cheat sheet, preferred technologies, areas of competence, case studies
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Develer - October 2008
Develer S.r.l.Company Presentation
Briefing
Technologies
Areas of competence
Case Studies
Briefing
Quick Facts
Growth
Cheat Sheet
Customers
Quick Facts
✔ Business Area: Hardware and Software for industry
✔ Main Office: Via Mugellese, 1 - 50013 Campi Bisenzio (Florence, ITA)
✔ Activity Started on: October 2001
✔ Employees and consultants: 25
✔ Projects realized: 150+
✔ Services offered: software planning, customized software development, consulting
services, tech courses, hardware design, embedded software
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“cheat sheet” (1/2)
Open source solutions✔ Deep knowledge of open source world
✔ Develer co-authors many open source libraries
“Python” programming language
✔ +6 years of experience
✔ Rapid prototyping, fast development
✔ Organizers of national Python conference (http:/www.pycon.it)
“cheat sheet” (2/2)
Custom HW boards design✔ Just launched: BeRTOS (http://www.bertos.org), free RTOS for small
systems.
✔ Linux/uCLinux kernel ports, device drivers development, user-space libraries and apps.
Open development model✔ Clients have full access to source code repository, ticketing system,
technical mailing lists
✔ Agile methodologies: release early, release often
Customers
Areas of competence● Custom-made software development● Improvement of customers software● Migration onto an open-source platform
● Realization of prototypes● Realization of custom boards● Obsolete cards redesign● High-performance firmware
● Consulting service on new technologies● Courses on new technologies● Far-sighted strategic choices● Improvement of your development workflow
Software
Hardware
Innovation
SoftwareSotware design and implementation
✔ From idea to market
Support for modifications to existing softwares✔ Integration with existing teams and infrastructures
New life to old software✔ Modernization through refactoring and unit tests✔ Upgrade to new technologies or OS
Wide expertise with multi-platform development✔ Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, embedded
HardwareGive shape to an idea
✔ HW/SW product, from idea to market
Re-design of obsolete boards✔ New components for hardware, and firmware with new open
technologies (avoid vendor lock-in!)
Bring operating systems to bare-HW code✔ Our beloved BeRTOS for tiny systems
✔ Linux/ucLinux for medium to large systems
InnovationInnovative technologies
✔ Teaching and implementing new solutions to customers
✔ Continous internal R&D and workshops to spread knowledge and be on the edge
Workflow improvement✔ Analyze an existing workflow, find bottlenecks and mistakes
✔ Introduce agile development technics and concepts borrowed from the open-source development model
Technologies
Python
Nokia Qt
PyQt
BeRTOS
Develer & Python
Using Python since 2002:✔ Style: elegant and dynamic language
✔ We have been suggesting it to customers ever since
✔ We have been using for our internal tools
Benefits of Python:✔ Rapid prototyping (fast development)
✔ High portability (desktop and embedded)
✔ Faster deploy ever
Develer & Nokia Qt
Using Qt since 2002✔ And proudly so!
✔ We have been suggesting it to customers ever since
✔ We have been using for our internal tools
✔ LGPL License
Experience on most Qt platforms✔ Qt/Windows, Qt/X11, Qt/Mac
✔ Qt/Embedded on Linux and Windows CE
Develer & PyQt
Using PyQt since 2004:✔ Perfect match: bringing Qt philosophy into Python elegant and
dynamic language
✔ Many contributions to PyQt development (debugging and testing)
Benefits of PyQt:
✔ Rapid prototyping (fast development)
✔ Write once, run anywhere
✔ Useful C++ portability layer (QtCore)
✔ LGPL License as Qt
Develer & BeRTOS
We create BeRTOS in 2001:✔ We have been suggesting it to customers ever since
✔ We have been using for our internal tools
✔ Direct BeRTOS development (coding, debugging and testing)
Benefits of BeRTOS:✔ Open source and royalty free also for commercial projects
✔ Windows SDK with toolchains and IDE integration
✔ Multiplatform Wizard for projects configurations
✔ Not only kernel: ready to use HW drivers for many peripherals
Case Studies
CAD for fashion designers( Python | PyQt | Qt )
Medical diagnosis appliation( Python | PyQt | Qt widget )
Domotic Control Panel( C++ | Qt )
CAD for fashion designers (1/2)We provide software consulting for an Italian company, leader in a particular field of fashion design.
One of them is a CAD almost entirely written in Python, which uses PyQt to fully take advance of the Qt framework.
Effort: 50 man/months (and running...)
CAD for fashion designers (2/2)
Heavily customized UI● Best experience possible for designer: Comply to several (often
odd) habits.
● Qt gives us the flexibility to tweak the UI as we wish, keeping the code maintainable.
Full OpenGL acceleration● Drawing canvas are accelerated with OpenGL (QtOpenGL).
● Some parts (eg: texts) use QPainter over OpenGL
Medical diagnosis application (1/2)
Customer needed to bundle an application with the new version of their flagship product.
Introducing PyQt allowed us to complete the first prototype of the application within one month from starting from scratch, and to deliver the final version after just two months later.
Medical diagnosis application (2/2)
Database interaction● We exploited Qt widgets' flexible API to produce a thin Python layer
that handles reading and writing values from/to DB.
Full i18n support● Application is deployed in several markets (including Korean and
Turkish ones)● Usage of Qt made adding i18n support trivial.
Domotic Control Panel (1/2)
We provide software consulting for a big domotic Italian corporate.
The product is developed in C++ and the GUI is designed with Qt.
It runs on a custom ARM-based board, with Linux.
Domotic Control Panel (2/2)
Home control● The system controls all the house: lights, security, windows,
home theater
Touch screen interface
● With the easy-to-use interface (realized with a touch screen device integrated with Qt) the user can control all sensors and actuators in the house
i18n● The user interface is multi language and supports European,
Chinese and Arabic languages
Contacts
Internet:
http://www.develer.com
Phone:
+39-055-3984627
