Quickshow is a company focused on providing a simple way for users to create and distribute advertisements as Shockwave Flash movies. The software provides an integrated solution that allows users to rapidly create compelling, professional looking presentations without having to learn to use Flash or hiring a Flash developer.
This project demonstrates how companies can focus on business by letting Brain Murmurs manage their product development
Although the OTD originally worked with a few different contractors across the country, we soon became the sole development resource for the company and handled all aspects of the engineering effort. As a reward for efforts the principals of Brain Murmurs were eventually awarded an equity stake in Quickshow, in addition to our our regular compensation. All of the work provided by Brain Murmurs was executed by Garret Cole, Garrett Kelly, Nathan Smith, Chester Hartin, and Daniel Pasco.
Brain Murmurs' Role 1. Worked with customer to turn high-level requirements into working code 2. Project Management 3. Programmatic Flash movie generation 4. Application deployment engineering 5. Application code signing 6. Java Webstart administration 7. Client/Servlet network protocol development 8. Developed a Java-based drag and drop client interface 9. Implemented transitions and text effect selection on the client 10. Implemented transitions and text effects through programmatic movie generation 11. Developed Java-based graphical property editors, such as image pan-and-zoom selection tools 12. Email client development 13. Developed Remote Asset Browsing Capability in the client 14. Database administration 15. Database performance optimization 16. Configuration management 17. Build and release management Related Technologies Flash JNI Linux OS X FreeBSD Java Python GUI Design Network Programming Java Servlets PostgreSQL