Portfolio

eQuest

eQuest, a global job posting distribution and applicant tracking service, contacted yFactorial to build out its second generation job tracker platform. yFactorial is currently implementing an integrated RESTful job-tracking web service and job management application providing job posting analytics and statistics.

Solution

RESTful job web-service

Real time analytics

Applicant geo-location

Technologies

Ruby on Rails

Ruby & Flash based graphing

Google Maps mashup

ChroniQL

ChroniQL is developing a "funware application that combines the best of social online games with digital photography to maximize fun, stickiness and virtual item revenue" called rmbr that needed a messaging solution to serve at the core of their scalable multimedia system. yFactorial developed a RESTful message broker web-service written in Ruby on Rails along with client libraries to fill this need - allowing ChroniQL to utilize in-house knowledge of Rails application management while still introducing an asynchronous messaging component.

rmbr has recently been featured in several articles including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and the USA Today.

Solution

RESTful messaging web-service

Client messaging libraries

Technologies

Ruby on Rails

ActiveResource client library

Ruby on Rails plugin

FivePoints Solutions

FivePoints Solutions is an early stage startup building a family-friendly membership management application. yFactorial is providing on-site software development and coaching services as well as project management guidance to FivePoints Solutions in the very critical early stages of their application build-out.

Solution

Ruby coaching and mentoring

Pair-programming

Test driven development

Technologies

Ruby on Rails

Test::Unit

eXtension

eXtension is an educational partnership of more than 70 universities tasked with making objective, research-based information and educational opportunities available to the public. eXtension contracted yFactorial to design and implement a social network visualization and analytics application, responsible for the collection and display of professional relationships to identify the true social network that exists within an organization.

Solution

Dynamic data collection

Hyperbolic browsing

OpenID identity support

Technologies

Ruby on Rails

Javascript/AJAX

RSpec

HAML

adPickles, Inc.

adPickles is an email-based advertisement delivery system. yFactorial is helping adPickles build out their initial advertisement delivery platform alongside the current development team.

Solution

RESTful API

Technologies

Ruby on Rails

PodcastPeople

PodcastPeople is a simple web-based service that allows individuals to create audio and video episodes, write blog posts, and interact with their audience. yFactorial, in partnership with Terralien, Inc. and SD2 Interactive, identified performance and stability enhancements for PodcastPeople's system architecture and assisted in the planning of their initial migration path to the new architecture.

Solution

System scaleability assessment

Environment provisioning

Technologies

Ruby on Rails

Amazon S3 storage service

eXtension

eXtension is an educational partnership of more than 70 universities tasked with making objective, research-based information and educational opportunities available to the public. eXtension contracted yFactorial to design and implement a news-aggregation site capable of pulling information from various atom-enabled news feeds and wrapping community-enhancing functionality such as user tagging and article voting around these aggregated articles.

Solution

Article-based browsing application

Article tagging

Distributed user authentication

Technologies

Ruby on Rails

OpenID identity support