Front and Back End Web Development

Small business and professional web site creation and setup, with your own domain name, starting at $335.

Includes one $25 yearly web hosting fee and one $10 yearly domain name fee. Additional services such as online scheduling, e-commerce, database services and newsletters are available. Some sample variations of this homepage are:

White & Gray Design | Drupal Homepage | WordPress Site | Ecommerce

 Interactive Flash & COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Consider interactive Flash for your web site

Whether it's marketing, sales or support: interactive "hands on" tools will help users understand your area of expertise and improve search engine hits.

Semiconductor Flash | Chemistry Flash | Mechanical Flash | Humans & Flash | Digital Art Gallery

Custom Applications

Manufacturing Software Expertise.  SECS/GEM & RS232 Machine Interfacing Expert.

There are two ways to diagnose process problems:

  1. Replicate the conditions in the lab, or
  2. Interface to the tool(s) and collect the process data - to determine the difference between good and bad product.

For the 2nd, there are three aspects to tool interfacing and process data collection:

  1. Interfacing to the tool (the actual interfacing software is cheap).
  2. Correlating process data to product. Without this correlation, data collection is useless.
  3. Storing, looking up, and retrieving data. Most engineers rely on Excel. If you can't give them data in Excel, the system isn't worth much

Fab Software | Test/Sort Software | Embedded System Rewrite

How WE Develop Software

Off the Shelf or Custom Software?

Features are what sell off the shelf software - causing many commercial software applications to become bloated and expensive, with any particular software version rapidly becoming obsolete. Ken Freed Software develops custom software specifically for YOU, with the right degree of generalization for YOUR likely future needs, often using rapid prototyping and iterative development to quickly zero in on YOUR requirements. And unlike off the shelf software, getting the source code so YOU can control long term support is never a problem with Ken Freed Software.

Software Methodology that's Cost Effective because it's "Sized Right"

In many cases the "one size fits all" scope of many formal software methodologies drags in non essential overhead. This is basically done to insure that a wide variety of developers in bigger organizations are in sync with customers on requirements, scheduling and progress - irregardless of who specifically staffs the project. The experience of many years of establishing successful customer relationships enables Ken Freed Software to reduce the amount of formal project management documentation to match the context at hand. Only what's actually essential to get things done (usually concentrating on listing what will be developed and how much effort it will take) is documented, with other details handled informally. As a general guideline, if a project's formal documentation exceeds twelve pages not only will no one read it - the project is too big and will be broken down into a series of smaller projects/phases or milestone deliverables.

On Project Management | On Maintainable Code

Programming Notes

One often forgets subtleties when moving between languages and environments. Here are quick overviews along with notes on some of the (non-obvious and often skipped over) stumbling blocks:

Ken's PHP5 & MySQL Notes | SQL Server Stored Procedure Notes | Ken's Perl & DBI Notes | Ken's SQL Syntax Refresher | Ken's Javascript & JQuery Notes | Ken's Java Notes | Ken's C# Notes | Ken's Tcl/Tk Notes | Ken's Visual Basic Notes | Ken's Excel VBA Notes | Sample DLL Creation | Sample Secs-I Binary Data Exchange | Sample Paypal Data Exchange | Vax/VMS Notes |

Gears created in Autodesk 3DSMax and animated in Flash