ii, inc. strives to offer our clients the most effective and professional Internet solutions available. To keep up to date, ii, inc. is a member of several industry groups, and is actively involved in technology events to help enhance the Web development community. ii, inc. continues to stay abreast of our industry and new technologies through conferences and providing professional presentations. We also keep current and potential clients and partners abreast of our recent work through press releases.

South by Southwest Interactive Festival
3.9.07 Austin, TX	ii, inc., attended the regional convention as part of its annual goal to meet with other interactive developers. The convention held in our own backyard allows us to catch up with other local companies, review interesting technologies and methodologies, and plan for the upcoming one. At this year's event, we rolled out BootKarma for the Austin Bootstrap group to facilitate member exchanges of skills. ii, inc., also hosted an informal gathering of Science Commons staff, and attended the BarCamp Austin on Saturday.
Fluid Innovation Group
2.22.07	Fluid Innovation Group extends the contract with ii, inc., to continue to develop the beta version of the Fluid Licensing System. The initial beta (modeled on the alpha version with same look and feel) delivered will be enhanced to include a completely new application flow, and have many AJAX features (including using the Rico javascript library), and an expanded reporting feature. The beta 2 version development will follow the scrum agile methodology.
Jordan Publishing Corp
11.27.06	Jordan Publishing, a client from a couple of years ago, contracts with ii, inc., to review and analyze their current websites and to provide suggestions on improving performance. The first step is to implement web application measurement to track site use and identify bottlenecks.
Austin On Rails Presentation
11.14.06	ii, inc., presented on "Rails and Ajax: A Brief Overview from Real-World Projects." The presentation to the Austin on Rails user group was on using Prototype and Scriptaculous to make an Ajax application that made extensive use of drag and drop and other Ajax options to make it perform better for users. The demonstration application was our Agile Project Management system, which we will be releasing to the public soon. In addition, we demonstrated how to write your own handlers demonstrating our work with Google Maps on Luncherator, and why the built in Ajax options with RJS are much more preferable.
AstriCon
10.26.06 Dallas, TX	Based upon our initial efforts to integrate Asterisk with Luncherator and other projects, ii, inc. attended AstriCon in Dallas to keep up to date with the direction of the Asterisk open source phone PBX. We learned about the future development direction of Asterisk, as well as the work others have done to integrate it with Web applications. We also met with others who are interested in re-developing the Rails Asterisk Integration Gem which we plan on using in future development.
Team Digital Consulting
10.23.06	ii, inc., is hired by Team Digital Consulting to develop a prototype web application in Ruby on Rails related to eCommerce. They only had a 5-week development cycle before they needed the prototype site up and ready for demonstration. Using agile programming methods, the site was completed in time for their demonstration. The prototype site consisted of multiple user types, creators who created objects that were obtained by customers, who used them in various stores for purchases. The created objects were restricted by type and quantity, and a full tracking system was implemented to track who received the objects, and where they were used.
Ruby Conference
10.20.06 Denver, CO	ii, inc. attended the annual Ruby Conference for the first time. Based upon an increasing request for Ruby and Rails developement, ii, inc., attended this conference to enhance the knowledge we have of the base Ruby language.
Austin Perl Mongers Presentation
10.11.06	ii, inc., presented on "HTML Template and Rapid Application Development Frameworks" at the Austin Perl Mongers. The presentation covered examples from projects over the past year where we used HTML::Template, CGI::Application, CGI::Session, other Perl modules and in-house frameworks to rapidly build robust Perl applications for clients. It included demonstration of the features of these modules, best practices distilled from our project experience, and code review.
Grade 4 Science Field Test
10.10.06	ii, inc. releases year two of the Grade 4 Science Field Test for info2knowledge so that they can survey teachers and students on Grade 4 science achievement related to training and TAKS/TEKS. The second year includes expanded demographic studies and a semi-annual assessment, as compared to a single assessment in year one.
Arkansas Consolidated School Improvement Plan
9.29.06	ii, inc. received the contract from the Arkansas Department of Education to provide support and enhancements during the 2006-7 school year for the ACSIP application. In addition to routine support, ii, inc., will enhance the system to include complete budgets for state categorical funding for ALE, ELL, NSLA and PD monies, including transfers and budget reporting.
Austin Business Journal Top Web Developer
9.8.06 Austin, TX	ii, inc. is named one of the Top 25 Web Developers by the Austin Business Journal for the fourth year a row.
Fluid Innovation Group
9.1.06	ii, inc., began work with Fluid Innovation Group to develop a Ruby on Rails application that will allow FIG to monitor, track, and review the technology assets submitted to them for potential commercialization. The contract was to migrate their alpha-stage application to a beta stage application, solving the issues with the first version.
Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare
9.1.06	ii, inc., was hired by Arrowhead to design the site for their Streamliner Ruby on Rails application. In addition to design, we were responsible for production of the site HTML/CSS based on the approved design, and with integrating the design with the Streamliner Rails code through the creation of the application views.
O'Reilly Open Source Convention
7.24.06 Portland, OR	ii, inc. attended the Eighth Annual Convention to meet with fellow programmers and review and learn new technologies that will be of use to our clients. Major technologies of note were Ruby on Rails, AJAX, and application testing. Surprisingly, while there was some discussion of Asterisk, it was not mentioned as much as in the prior year even though it is clearly having a larger impact on applications this year.
Spansion Utility Matrix
7.14.06	As part of our ongoing relationship, ii, inc. has been selected to work with Spansion to re-implement their Utility tracking application from a highly modified Excel spreadsheet to a web based application. This application tracks planned Utility use for the Spansion fabs so that proper planning can be done to accommodate the installation of new tools and removal of old tools from various fab processes.
Arkansas Consolidated School Improvement Plan
6.30.06	ii, inc. completes our first year of working with the Arkansas State Department of Education on their online ACSIP plan. Initially sponsored by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, the development of this application by ii, inc., allowed for all the schools and districts in Arkansas to develop their requests for federal funding using an online tool, rather than a Word/Excel document as in prior years. The online version allowed for more robust error checking, eliminating the need for tedious manual financial reconciliation and allowing for increased reporting and tracking. In addition, it incorporated significant business rules additions which aided the development of plans, such as in Title I allocation where the old process took up to two weeks to manually balance the Title I allocation to as little as two hours with the new automated business logic in place.
Education Service Center 12
6.15.06	ii, inc. continued their work with ESC12 on the teacher School Technology and Readiness tool for planning and assessment. We implemented a public search of past assessments so that the results were available to anyone who wanted to review them. Included in this task were basic analysis tools for searching and sorting the assessments.
Loomis Group Kiosk System
6.1.06	ii, inc. was tasked by Loomis Group to provide enhancements to their client extranet which we have been developing over the past year. We added additional functionality, and helped in migrating the final data to the new system. Previously static HTML pages updated manually, ii, inc. provided a dynamic, database-driven application that allowed all the staff to update the Kiosk with new project designs and documents for client review.
Spansion Passdown
5.3.06	As part of our ongoing relationship, ii, inc. worked with Spansion to migrate their Passdown tool used by the facilities department from an Access VB application to a web application as the old application no longer functioned under newer versions of Windows. We migrated the application to ASP with a SQL Server backend, and tied it into the corporate Active Directory to regulate permissions and provide the ability to have various levels of group access.
Dallas Fort Worth Interactive Marketing Association Judge
4.6.06 Dallas, TX	David Bluestein II, President of ii, inc., was appointed for a second year to help judge the DFWIMA awards for interactive marketing by Dallas companies.