Toolkit
We believe that our independance from operating systems, databases and application servers gives us the flexibility to make the most appropriate technological choices every time.
Here is a selection of the tools we use and recommend.
ColdFusion
ColdFusion is our favourite architecture for rapid web application development.
SQL Server
SQL Server, Microsoft's best product, why we use it
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL, the robust open source database server; its strengths, its weaknesses, our work with it.
Perl
Practical Reporting and Extraction Language; why we love it, when we use it, when we wouldn't use it
Python
A brief description of what Python is, and when we use it in our projects
PHP
PHP is an open source language designed from the ground up with web development in mind
MySQL
All about MySQL, its history, when we use it, strengths, weaknesses
Java
A brief analysis of server-side Java; its benefits and drawbacks for web applications.
Lucene
Torchbox's work with Apache Lucene, an open source indexing and search framework.
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