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How Many Developers Does it Take to ...

Can one person or a small team still write production-quality software applications, in a reasonable time-frame, for a reasonable cost? Of course! How? That is the question that drives Tincat Group.

Many folks do this today by using tools from the 1980's and earlier. Maybe they have replaced the old character interface with a GUI or perhaps even a web-based interface. But they haven't otherwise upgraded their toolset much because they need to be able to do the job single-handedly or with small teams. The old tools lend themselves to such development, while newer ones seem to require a much more varied skill set, difficult for one person to master.

While intended for the full range of software application developers, this site is dedicated to those seasoned software developers who would like to retool, but without losing the big-bang-for-the-buck productivity they currently enjoy.

What tools & techniques would be good for writing complex software applications that run in a browser and require data persistence? There are plenty of choices. LAMP? AJAX? RoR? J2EE? .NET?

Our current focus is on non-relational data models, rich web-based user interfaces, and the messages passed among these.