Grey Group ranks among the world’s top advertising and marketing organizations, serving one-fifth of the FORTUNE 500, in 96 countries. They operate branded independent business units in many communications disciplines including: advertising, direct marketing, public relations, public affairs, brand development, customer relationship management, sales promotion, and interactive marketing. Boyle Software is currently using a variety of Microsoft tech – .NET/C#, MS Sharepoint, MS Azure – in support of Grey’s business intelligence capabilities.
Category Archives: C#
Boyle Software is growing!
Our company is constantly growing. Just recently a few developers joined our team in New York and Ukraine and we are looking for more!
If you are an experienced PHP developer, a .NET engineer, or an iOS/Android apps specialist and looking for a job where you can utilize your knowledge and learn new technologies, please send us your resume: jobs@boylesoftware.com. Our latest coding needs are always posted on our site.
Revving up with Vroom
Start your engines! Vroom – the Web’s biggest car store – has just joined Boyle Software’s client roster. We are looking forward to ramping up several projects for Vroom, a company that is upending traditional automotive sales. Utilizing a mix of Microsoft and open source technologies, we are eager to help Vroom continue its exponential growth in the buying, selling, and trading-in of used cars all across the USA.
Beanstalkd + Drupal
In my last post I described how you make Drupal work with Gearman – a pretty good job server, which allows you to do things asynchronously, in the background. However cool Gearman is, there are a couple of downsides to the way it operates:
- Its queueing protocol is too simplistic. Once you claim an item from the queue, you cannot release it (unless you create a client in a worker and add the identical item), postpone (bury), etc. So if the worker dies, the item is lost.
- The Drupal integration module is sporadically maintained and still requires that you write quite a bit of code to get things working.
A great alternative is Beanstalkd. Written in C, it is super fast, and there is a PHP-written client – Pheanstalk – that provides for neat integration. Moreover, the Drupal module is actively maintained and has a full-fledged Drupal Queue backend class. Continue reading
Expanded Support for Microsoft Development
Boyle Software is happy to announce the expansion of our Microsoft back-end department. While we still concentrate on the open-source community and tools, we now also have a growing group of Microsoft developers.
Our latest addition is Danny Chan, a senior engineer with over eight years of experience in complex systems design and development, as well as specific Microsoft experience with C#, ASP, VB and SQL.