About Us
We are driven by curiosity and pride ourselves in being able to see and do things differently. We take the time necessary to grasp things and view the whole picture. The remainer is spent producing.
We prefer tackling projects through short iterations. See far ahead, but take reasonably small steps to get there. We know by experience that any project, as well planned as it may be, will always present new aspects and constraints along the way.
We are sensible to a clear and precise communication of ideas, may it in be source code, user interfaces or when communicating with other people.
Charles Bédard
I got (seriously) interested in computer science around 1992 and specialized in web application development as early as 1996. My experience is not limited to programming, as it also encompasses analysis, research and project management.
I have developed and commercialized a text processor for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, called Glyphotext. I also built my own IDE for web development, which started out 10 years ago as a simple text editor with a few tools for HTML editing, but which I have constantly adapted and still use today for Ruby On Rails and PHP development.
I started my own consultancy at the turn of the new millenium and was mandated with quite a few projects, namely conference management systems, first for clients in Quebec, and later for businesses located in Austria and South Africa.
Corporate Web sites, collaborative environments and database management applications are all types of projects in which I have taken part, as a system and information analyst and/or a developer. What I like most is working at the architecture and system design levels, providing software components, modules and tools which can then be put to use on actual projects.
Stéphane Volet
Stéphane Volet holds two degrees in music for piano and performance from McGill University. He then furthered his studies at the Banff Centre for the Fine Arts and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, Netherlands. He received several grants from both the Canada and Québec Councils for the Arts and produced theatrical, choreographical and video scores in North America and Europe. From his beginnings he has studied and used bleeding edge information technology. So it is by necessity that he involved himself in Internet communiciations in the early 1990s when he moved to Québec's North Shore region. In 1995, in Baie-Comeau, he founded Y.E.S. (virtuel), an Internet service provider company.
It's as a web specialist that he was then hired in 1996 at the Barreau du Québec (the Quebec Bar Association) to build and maintain (during six years) their web properties. At the Barreau, Stéphane was involved in all aspects of web publishing: from strategic planning, to server side programming, to copy writing and statistics gathering and analysis.
Since 2003, he has been working freelance as a web consultant, most recently focussing on Ruby on Rails.