Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) describe the presentation of web pages and other documents. Our developers and UX designers work together to build complex, stylized CSS content to manage how your applications look.

macOS is a Unix-based graphical operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac family of computers.

Use Excel as a tool for input or output, and build a database-driven application to manage sophisticated workflow from end to end.

An open source testing framework used to drive test and behavior driven development in Ruby and Rails applications.

SQL is everywhere: embedded in web, desktop and mobile applications. The many flavors of SQL drive a large majority of database servers world wide.

We create DSLs for particular use-cases, from configuration files to full-blown APIs.

Not only is Swift the preferred language used to build products for Apple's hardware platforms, it's the basis of modern Server-side Swift platforms such as Kitura and Vapor.

FileMaker Server component of the FileMaker platform. Server is tasks with hosting database files and providing services such as backup, data integrity, file maintenance and activity reporting.

An open-source database application popularly used as a backend for data store for web applications.

Sass is an extension of CSS that adds power and elegance to the basic language. It allows you to use variables, nested rules, mixins, inline imports, and more, all with a fully CSS-compatible syntax.

Amazon Web Services (commonly called simply **AWS**) is Amazon's cloud computing platform. AWS technology is implemented at server farms throughout the world, and maintained by the Amazon subsidiary. Fees are based on a combination of usage, the hardware/OS/software/networking features chosen by the subscriber, required availability, redundancy, security, and service options. Subscribers can pay for a single virtual AWS computer, a dedicated physical computer, or clusters of either. As part of the subscription agreement, Amazon provides security for subscribers' system. AWS operates from many global geographical regions including 6 in North America. AWS can likely be considered the leading cloud platform. As of late 2018, it boasts an IT Infrastructure used by over 1 million customers, including a vast array of the the largest enterprises in the US and worldwide. In contrast with competing cloud platforms, AWS is especially noteworthy for how thoroughly modularized and implementation-agnostic its components are. For example, Amazon's **lambda functions** — the doorway to customization of its vast array of services — can be written in a wide array of languages, including both JavaScript and Swift. Additionally, AWS offers deep integration and customization with Amazon's vast array of Alexa-enabled devices. Within Beezwax, our IT consulting team is experienced with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including setup, deployment, security, scalability and performance for systems that run your web, mobile or desktop applications.

FileMaker Cloud provides a secure, reliable and easy-to-maintain platform to deploy custom apps in the cloud.

Akamai's platforms feature a content delivery network (CDN) with thousands of servers worldwide, and added functions for security and testing - perfect for supporting huge sets of worldwide users.

PHP is an open source programming language used for web development and building content-driven applications on platforms including WordPress, FileMaker, Drupal and Joomla.

*nix is an abbreviation that represents the family of Unix-based operating system such as Unix, Linux and macOS.

AppleScript is one of many options for integrating and automating desktop workflows built around FileMaker and other Mac-native applications.

Start with the basics of Unix platform automation.

Go (often referred to as **Golang**) is a programming language designed by Google. Go is a statically typed, compiled language in the tradition of C, with the added benefits of memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. The compiler, tools, and source code are all free and open source. With Google's strong support, many web-scale projects run on Go, including: - Docker - Kubernetes - Couchbase (query and indexing services) - Dropbox (having migrated from Python) - Google (many projects) - MongoDB (admin tools) - Netflix (server architecture) - Heroku (Doozer lock service) - SoundCloud - Uber (high volume geofence queries) In practical terms, Go was designed by Google to be an ideal server-side language. It's useful to compare Go to Server-Side Swift, as performance tests among modern web platforms often place these two platforms at the head of the class. Here are key differences: - Go favors speed over API "correctness" and elegance. It lacks key feeatures of Swift, such as *generics* and classes. - Go is much less *object oriented (OO)* than Swift. - Go is simpler, while Swift is more expressive. - Go is particularly focused on writing highly efficient *programs* (rather than *libraries*) across very large teams. - Go is meant to be best at server-side applications. Swift has many optimizations for real-time applications (such as iOS and macOS apps) that Go makes little attempt to match. - Swift is more future-facing, embracing modern programming ideas, while Go looks more to the past, aiming for raw server-side performance. That said, Go and Server-side Swift share these core similarities: - Both handle concurrency with high efficiency. - Both have automatic garbage collection. - Both compile down to native bitcode.

Google Maps provides street maps, satellite views, traffic, route planning and more. Use Maps alongside your existing systems, or integrate it with your data and workflow.

Fuzzy matching can actually make your search queries smarter. Elastic helps users find close (not necessarily exact) matches, as well as search across multiple data sets.

QuickBooks accounting applications for desktop, server and online cloud-based services help businesses manage payments, bills and payroll.

Barcode is a kind of language that allows information systems to communicate with each other. Mobile systems based on scanners or iOS devices can both read and speak barcode.

Python is popular, open source programming and systems scripting language. Its capabilities extend to everything from managing servers and handling email, to integrating FileMaker with other platforms.

HTML5 structures and presents content in modern web applications.

For handling big data and real-time web applications.

MySQL is one of the most popular database backends for web and mobile applications. It's a solid and mature choice, although these days we work with many alternatives.

A member of the Microsoft Office suite, Access is a relational database management tool designed for creating business applications.

Oracle offers enterprise databases and related platforms that can integrate with web, mobile, FileMaker and desktop applications.

Integrate your custom business apps, and extend the functionality of your existing systems through Google's APIs to take advantage of their services. Examples include Calendar, Docs, Search, Gmail, Translate, Maps and more.

A design app. Sometimes, THE design app. Sketch is a powerful design toolkit used for building the UI and UX of modern interfaces.

Adds server functionality and server management tools to macOS X.

Google Analytics tracks website activity, to help you understand who is visiting a website, and why. With the right integration, you can even connect this info with other important data about customers, orders, and more.

One of the most popular SQL databases. Instead of needing a dedicated server, it sits in its own file alongside the application.

A language-independent and standardized format for constructing data objects with name-value pairs. JSON is used extensively to pass data between applications of all types.

Heroku provides cloud infrastructure to build, deliver, monitor and scale apps, of all different sizes, types and uses, across multiple platforms.

The leading cloud-based platform for integrating SMS, voice, video and more.

Flexible, customizable e-commerce platform for selling products and services.

Adaptive layout is the techniques and tools available in xCode that allow developers to reuse layout resources across multiple iOS devices.

What's up, Docker? How about an industry-standard way to package up apps (in "containers") so we can help you deploy them on a variety of cloud platforms. That's what's up with Docker.

GitHub manages collaboration -- software source code, sharing and team review -- whether its for secure and private business systems, or for software we share socially with the open source community.