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Other Things We Do

2009-05-04T18:36:00Z

Other Things We Do

	Fences Simply put, Fences is a straight-forward way to implement and manage authorization on your Rails application. Check out Fences at GitHub.com
	Gridzilla Gridzilla is an elegant Ruby on Rails implementation for HTML grids/tables that allow developers to easily connect their data to a flexible interface that not only displays the information, but provides numerous hooks for interaction with that data through CSS and Javascript. Check out Gridzilla at GitHub.com
	Flickr-Fu Flickr-Fu is a Ruby interface that allows developers to connect to Flickr using the Flickr REST API. Check out FlickrFu at GitHub.com
	XML Magic XML Magic allows developers to magically navigate through XML as if it was simple Ruby objects. Check out XML Magic at GitHub.com

How We Can Help

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How We Can Help

	Custom Development At CommonThread, we love what we do...and what we do is great development. We take your ideas, offer our experience and knowledge and help you create an application that accomplishes your needs, but more importantly accomplishes the needs of your users, making everyone successful.
	User Interface and Design The interface is the only way that a user interacts with an application. The most beautiful code can be rendered useless if it is matched with an interface that frustrates the user and provides them with too much resistance in completing their task. We understand this and our focus is on the creation of functional and beautiful interfaces.
	Training Working in the community to advance the knowledge and understanding of programming and its related technologies and business practices is something that we feel a responsibility for. From conference sessions to organizational meetings to classroom environments, CommonThread has a desire to grow the technology community and is happy to help where needed.
	Open-Source Community CommonThread is committed to the open-source community. We have benefitted greatly from the uncountable individuals who have offered up their skills and time to make our lives easier and our goal is to give back to that effort as much as we can. However, we do understand that there are significant challenges to the open-source movement from many different sources. We want to help those individuals who need advice on strategy or approach to open-source ideas, especially in how it relates to intellectual property and the different licenses that are available.

What We Create

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What We Create

GradesFirst

GradesFirst is a product for the College and University market that empowers advising centers to take a more active role in the success of students currently on campus. Through numerous methods of gathering real-time information, retention is improved as students are connected with tutors before they drop out of school.

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Rosterville

Rosterville was built to help sports directors and their assistants effectively manage and communicate with the people that take part in the sports that their leagues or associations offer. From coach to player to parent, the life of a sports director is always busy and our job is to make the hard parts easier through thoughtful software that helps you break free of convoluted spreadsheets and frees you from the phone.

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MongoHQ

MongoHQ is a hosted MongoDB service that CommonThread created to allow developers to quickly and easily create and connect to MongoDB instances in the cloud. Hosted on Amazon EC2, MongoHQ is a reliable, fast and cost-effective way to interact with and utilize schema-less document databases.

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Contact Us

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Contact Us

E-mail: jason@commonthread.com
Phone: 205.999.5331

CommonThread, LLC
1500 First Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35203
info@commonthread.com

About Us

2009-05-04T18:27:00Z

About Us

Jason McCay

When it comes to interface design and envisioning the user experience for each of our projects, Jason is at home. However, the joys of running a small company keeps his hands in other areas, including: development support, accounting, project management and client interaction. In other words, if you are talking to CommonThread, you are probably talking to Jason.

Besides chasing two boys around, you can find Jason on the road or in the pool, training for triathlons. Jason is a one-time Ironman, but will be going for his second event soon. He also is a bit of a weather nerd...and Ben loves to give him a hard time about it.

Ben Wyrosdick

After spending some time figuring out that his passions did not lie in the worlds of .NET or Java, Ben found that he could use Ruby on Rails to fully unleash his creative super powers. His drive to truly find the best solution to whatever problem he is looking at is what helped him quickly become one of the most respected Rails developers in the Southeast.

Of course, everyone with a super power has their kryptonite. So, even on the best of days, Ben's mad skills can be easily averted with cockroaches or asking him to go anywhere that would involve stepping on an airplane or elevator. Ben is a two-time Ironman and enjoys nursing a bum knee that provides him with a useful excuse for the reason he is so slow.

Anthony Crumley

Anthony began programming BASIC when Texas Instruments made home computers, the monitor was your television, and cassette tapes were high capacity storage devices. Yes, you could say that makes him ancient but we prefer to think of him as experienced.

He has worked at Fortune 500 companies in the banking, transportation, and utilities industries as well as a startup serving non-profits. Throughout his career he has done everything from coding to Director of Software Engineering. No matter where he works or what position he holds, his great love has always been writing beautiful and elegant software. Well, that and Kung Fu movies with bad voice overs.

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What we create

We enjoy creating amazing products and applications for our customers that help them and their users succeed. Discover some of the exciting projects we are working on.
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How we can help

We really enjoy helping people. Whether it be through traditional services or something more spontaneous and off-the-cuff, we want to share our knowledge and help you reach your goals.
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Other things we do

Besides the products we create and the services that we offer, we have a passion for giving back to the development community. Through this, we have different open-source projects that we are working on.
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