PageBadge is a facebook application developed using Ruby on Rails that easily create html badges for your facebook Pages, Events and Groups so you can promote them on your websites

We have initially developed this project to promote our events and facebook pages. If you have a facebook account, you can view the PageBadge here live in action . PageBadge is certainly a great way to give that extra push to your social media marketing campaigns.

PageBadge is a new application and currently being used by 339 users despite some exisiting bugs with the Internet Explorer 7.

RubberDoc is a Document Management extensions developed for the Joomla! CMS version 1.5.

Using this extension it is very easy to upload a large number of documents ( PDF, Excell, Word, ... ) and assign them to different articles within the Joomla or present them as categories of documents or even generate RSS feeds of files.

These documents can either be made available publicly or be restricted to registere users and administrators only.

This project has been inspired by our client, Social Planning & Research Council of British Columbia (SPARC BC) , who will be using this extension on their soon to be launched website which is also developed by rmd Studio and it's associates.

RubberDoc was developed because other similar extensions were neither available for the native Joomla! 1.5 nor provided a simple and user friendly administration interface for the SPARC BC's staff. In it's first month of release, RubberDoc has been downloaded more than 1500 times.

This is a collaborative project done by rmd Studio and JenTekk Web Solutions.

Tazzu.com is an online business, technology, and knowledge networking community which started in Sept. 2006 by Jeanette Duguay from JenTekk Web Solutions and the participation of a community of Technology enthusiasts and professionals. Six months later Tazzu was incorporated as a company by Rastin Mehr and Jeannete Duguay.

The current website ( version 1.5 ) is an online community where Tazzu members share technology tips, develop business ideas, exchange referrals, and make new professional friends.

This is a collaborative project between JenTekk Web Solutions , and rmd Studio Inc. 

North49 is a Vancouver based company specialized in developing, installing, and maintaining Sage Accpac ERP since 1989. They are authorized partners and developers of Sage Software . The principle owners Etiene Grobler and Rob Eichhorn deliver more than 20 years of valuable experience to their clients offering CRM and Accounting applications. Their client list includes companies such as BC Hydro and Vancity Credit Union .

Their corporate website used to run using a set of php scripts on a Windows server.  In order to update the site, their staff actually had to make changes to the website source code. In order to boost their marketing impact, their website needed to become more informative and visually more appealing.

Premier Agendas Ltd. is a student success and education services company located in Langley BC. It is specialized in developing customized school agendas and character development programs to help K12 and College students plan, organize and set goals for academic success. Premier serves thousands of schools throughout US and Canada.

Premier Learning Unit is a Learning Content Management System developed for online delivery of educational content to all the schools who are Premier’s clients. Premier Go and Premier Get Set are two student character development programs that are currently using PLU 2.0. This is the second customized LCMS web application developed for Premier Ltd.

Using this web application, Teachers and School Administrators are able to enroll their students in virtual classrooms where they are engaged in a set of online learning activities. In these lessons students watch videos, then they are quizzed. The result of their grades can be viewed instantly by their teacher using an online Grade-Book.

rmd Studio participated as a Project Mentor in Google Summer of code 2006 collaborating with computer science student Blagovest Dachev from USA and Joomla! Core Development Member Mateusz Krzeszowiec from Poland.

The entire project collaboration happened through IRC chat , Google Groups , Skype , and Joomla Forge .

Project goals were to develop proof of concepts, prototypes, and working examples of an AJAX framework for the next major release of Joomla! Content Management System (version 2.0). This framework was later on re-named to Project JAJAX by the team. 

The most basic purpose of an Intranet is so we can publish documents or newsletters on a private network and make them only available to a selected group of people. Premier Agendas , an Education Services company in Langley, BC needed just that.

Problem with the bloated software

Most Intranet Applications are bloated with all kinds of fancy features that companies don't  even use. It takes more time to learn how to use a bloated application; it also requires more maintenance. All of those would cost a company extra time and money.

Every year Software vendors add more features to their products so they can justify Software Upgrades to their customers. Offering more features than a competition does is a strong selling point.

Companies who grow with multiple branches in different geographical locations, could benefit from using a web based secure intranet in order to stay connected and exchange valuable business information.

The Loan Processing Terminal and Intranet, was an in-house research & development project inspired by a request once submitted to rmd Studio. In the beginning, the intention was to develop just a prototype, surprisingly the end product turned out to be as good as a production quality web application.