Creating software together
This is what Solertium, the smart software team, is all about. We are a carefully growing team of advanced software engineers based in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
Our purpose is to create software systems that work, that excite, and that stand the test of time. We work as peers with the leading lights of good technology, from the open source community, to innovation-driven companies like Google and Apple.
We have proven repeatedly, on the world stage, that we can deliver spectacular results in short timeframes. And because we have a top-to-bottom commitment to a lightweight, incremental, iterative approach, our projects are amazingly cost-effective as well.
We believe -- every one of us -- that honesty, integrity, and respect are tied inextricably to the concepts of excellence and success. If you share those values, and have software development needs, please contact me or any member of the team. We will be excited to speak with you, and thrilled to help plan the road ahead.
Pleased to meet you,
Alison Heittman
CEO
Species of the Day
Fittingly, our first launch of 2010 is the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species' "Species of the Day" widget. 2010 is the Year of International Biodiversity, and we worked with IUCN to create this widget to raise awareness of the vast variety of life on our planet.
Each day a new species is featured, and visitors can learn about the threats it faces by clicking through the widget and visiting the "Species of the Day" section on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species website. Throughout the year, species of all taxonomic groups and geographic regions will be highlighted.
Solertium worked with the IUCN Species Programme and the Species Survival Commission to develop and launch the "Species of the Day" widget.
Protect Planet Ocean
Solertium's "splashiest" project in 2008 was the launch of the Protect Planet Ocean portal (http://www.protectplanetocean.org). This project was a joint effort between IUCN, Solertium, and Google, and ties in with Google's ongoing efforts to empower nonprofits and improve ecological awareness in Google Earth. Protect Planet Ocean brought together content from more than a dozen NGO's in a historic collaboration, and exercises a broad combination of Google technologies, from Google Earth to YouTube to Blogger. It also represents the first truly large-scale application of our GoGoEgo content management software, powered by Google Web Toolkit and hosted in production by Google App Engine. Read more about this launch
New Species Information System Toolkit
Powers 2008 IUCN Red List
For the first time in 2008, the Solertium-developed Species Information Service (SIS) toolkit was used to compile IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species™ (http://www.iucnredlist.org), the authoritative worldwide reference on threatened species. 2008 represented the largest update to the Red List ever, combining data from three different formats and many different sources into the unified SIS system.
SIS is an ambitious application of Google Web Toolkit, Restlet, and Ext GWT technologies, allowing users to have a desktop-style database experience with an online web-based system. The full software even runs offline as well as offline, and due to its open source foundations, carries no license fees. Read more about this launch
GoGoEgo Open Source
GoGoEgo is a modern JVM-based platform for creating and managing Web sites in a resource-oriented way. The platform features: a container based on the REST architectural style and leveraging the Restlet library; WebDAV file management; an extensive Google Web Toolkit administrative UI with WYSIWYG and explorer-style features; a versioned filesystem; a flexible template model with recursion; server side scripting with EL and JSR-223 scripting support (Javascript, Jython/Python, Ruby, Freemarker etc.); queryable content tagging; publishing to Google App Engine; simple security; feed producers and consumers; and the ability to author plugins of various types in Java. With an active development community, more features are being added all the time.
A growing number of sites (including this one), are using GoGoEgo as a fresh, fast, RESTful alternative to relationally-oriented open-source CMS like Drupal and Joomla. During development, the power of the platform has been limited to project developers and their customers. In coming months, non-developers will be able to download ready-to-run GoGoEgo software, publish their sites to Google App Engine, buy mission-critical cloud hosting, and expand on the open source platform with powerful commerce features. Watch this space for news!