Special Services

Custom research and technical whitepapers developed for your organization by Brian Maso. Professional guidance or technical marketing materials generated by an experienced, published technical author. Some samples:

• Web Services Security Infrastructure, consigned by the US DoD, Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA); requirements and preliminary designs of an infrastructure for securing information in web service requests and responses. Available upon request.
• A New Era for Java Protocol Handlers, consigned for publication i the Java Developer Connection.
• Java 2 Security, consigned for publication by DevelopMentor on develop.com.
• Exploiting the Java Virtual Machine, consigned by DevelopMentor for distribution at JavaOne '98; later published on develop.com.

Considering how important initial design is to the success of a project, it is vital to subject project designs to expert peer review. Blumenfeld & Maso will put together an expert review team to critically review software designs. The goal of the review process is criticism. That is, you want to know what are the limitations, trade-offs, agilities and fragilities of a design implementation before it is built.

With the results of design review, shortcomings can be addressed or simply accepted if they do not hinder the goals of the project. Time and budget assumptions can also be verified or recalibrated if necessary. In general the project can advance on much surer footing once your designs have been subjected to peer review.

It is amazing how an afternoon or evening of review and presentation can bring every member of a development team in to lock-step with respect to a particular technology or tool. Bringing a subject expert in to meet and talk to your team for just three hours ensures that everyone is on the same page with an understanding of how a tool or technology fits (or does not fit) with a project.

Do your Java developers understand JDO? Java security? XML APIs like DOM and JDOM? Apache Struts? The additions to J2EE Servlet 2.4 spec? Web services? Web service security? XML Schema? XSL and other alternatives to XML transformation? Instrumentation and optimization? JNI programming and alternatives? Configuration management techniques and options?

Blumenfeld & Maso can arrange for an industry expert in either the Java or .NET arena to brief your engineers and/or managers on existing or upcoming technologies, tools and trends. We have a rich rolodex of experts who are also accomplished public speakers. Fees for such a service are surprizingly affordable. Contact us today to see if we can help put a team or a project in your company on the right footing.