Propane Labs is an alternative option for entrepreneurs that are looking for a technical founder for their business. Due the the shortage of experienced product builders, propane labs looks to help you create your product correctly the first time, build your company up and then hand over all assets back to the company once they have secured their own technical staff. Put simply, we help you get your product to market faster and minimize risk by tapping into our startup experience.
In this day and age, web development has become a necessary component of doing business. In our experience, we know how difficult it can be for businesses to maintain profitability with development. From developer loyalty to keeping costs down, businesses have the unenviable task of keeping projects under control, under budget and on time.
We've taken the need for development and all the inherent problems we would constantly come across and came to the conclusion that we needed to develop solutions and then offer these same solutions to other businesses in order to help stimulate growth and reform within the industry. After tirelessly being at the mercy of freelance developers, we decided to create our own in-house team and tackle the problem head on.
Propane Labs was created with the intent of solving technical problems and creating viable solutions. By offering high quality work, fair market rates and dependability often missing with contract developers, Propane Labs hopes to help businesses and organizations reach their time sensitive goals.
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The founders of Propane Labs have been using Flash since it was invented – all the way back to when it was in the hands of emerging web designers who used it as a faster loading animation element. Who would have thought it would earn both a reputation for being heavy and for also being the most innovative way of delivering brand experience? The truth is, only experience teaches you how to best utilize Flash – when it’s right, and what its strengths and limitations are. Propane Labs will readily bring this experience to your next project.
Air allows our clients to integrate directly with the desktop OS. Imagine being able to read a CD or pull up applications and run programs from a Flash-based AIR application! Users download what we build, giving their brand the power to leverage more than just the browser to build engaging business solutions.
We have been closely tracking the development of Papervision. We used to build 3D in Flash using an old plugin called Swift3d, which converted 3D files into 3D. Papervision actually imports the 3D model into Flash as 3D, and provides Flash with an additional z-axis, thus turning Flash into a 3D environment. Adobe observed the power in this and migrated the 3D space into Flash. Now, Propane Labs can use Papervision, a few other outside solutions, or Flash itself to build 3D experiences.
Flex allows Propane Labs to develop and deploy Rich-Internet Applications with cross-platform functionality. Its main contribution to our industry is the ability to create and develop applications faster than building them in Flash. Propane Labs’ knowledge of Flex gives us the insight to properly place this technology for our clients.
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. It also allows control of one’s experience while maintaining SEO, something you would otherwise loose with heavy non-SEO optimized Flash.
Propane Labs uses SMS text-messaging to maximize the marketing effectiveness of your company. Your applications can now communicate with your customer or end user’s mobile device, extending the business solutions far beyond the desktop. We are well-versed in short codes and long codes, and understand which is appropriate for the given challenge.
Propane Labs made an executive decision to specialize in this platform when it emerged in 2004. Now that the industry is catching up, we have the experience to really harness the power of building applications using the Ruby language on the Rails framework. It’s been the staple technology we have used for 90 percent of our custom Content Management Systems.
Propane Labs continues to stay current with the leading edge of development technology with its use of Grails technology. Grails continues the promise of developing in weeks instead of months, uses virtual machines, and provides improved performance. For more information on this new trend see grails.org.
Between Debian, Centos, LAMP stacks, cPanel, and virtual machines, our hosting expertise has grown considerably over the years. We know the perfect setup to match any client’s custom needs. We’ve run complex solutions with cloud servers, and will soon have running case studies on Amazon S3 servers. Propane Labs’ extensive experience means one thing for our clients: a honed ability to navigate confidently through technologies and create the most stable and scalable solutions. Having your applications talk to and manage their own server environments sits at the forefront of application/server innovation.
Propane Studio created a navigation software system that takes advantage of a data connection by streaming information about traffic, weather, and locations directly to the unit.
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Nitr.us is a peer-review system built in Flash. It allows a user to upload creative and then send out an email to others inviting them to rank and comment on the options. These ratings are then compiled for the original author to review.
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The SparkPR site is a Flex App connected to Flash connected to Ruby on Rails all impemented on a Cairngorm framework. It was a fairly ambitious undertaking, but well worth it when looking at the finished product
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Scionify.us utilizes jQuery for all of its rollover and image swap effects.
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Qpid.me utilizes SMS technology to keep its users instantly up to date on health records. The system sends and receives text messages, enabling it to communicate with users at any time.
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