Experience
Good judgement comes from experience;
experience comes from bad judgement.
We’ve seen and made our share of goofs and missteps but we try to turn each of these into learning opportunities, taking notes and establishing guidelines for making things better next time. A few years of this and the young person might think they’ve arrived at the pinnacle of knowledge.
We know better.
There’s always new ways that things can go wrong–and it’s bound to happen at the least opportune time. By logging everything we do, building in error-trapping routines, and cleaning inputs before they hit the database, what comes out is more likely to repeatedly match what the customer wants. We also never release a product until it passes all our tests.
Experience has taught us to never stop learning.
Long-Term Support
We keep archives of all our development code and have backups of libraries and tools so that we can pull out your project–even if years have gone by. We build our software to last and do everything we can to prevent you from feeling like you have to throw your investment away and start over.
We are often surprised to learn a program we wrote a decade ago for a customer we haven’t heard from in a long time suddenly needs an update–and has been in use all this time. Sometimes a new feature is requested; sometimes a security protocol needs updating. We have supported these in multiple instances, providing timely patches for customers who were worried whether we were still around.
Technology does not stop evolving but the software development tools we use are highly backwards-compatible. Whenever practical, we add new features, replace outdated ones, and provide bug-fixes–all to keep your applications relevant in the changing business landscape.
Global Clientele
Our customer base is not limited to any geographical area. In fact, we’ve never met most clients except through email and phone–and sometimes video chat.
In today’s globally connected world, electronic signatures have replaced pen and paper, emoticons have replaced body language, and virtual offices have replaced stuffy cubicles. At Cornelius Concepts, we all work from home allowing us flexibility when working on projects, the ability to adapt meeting times to client needs, and a better work/life balance.
Here are some examples of what we’ve done for clients here and abroad:
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Wrote sales and customer integrations for retailers all over North America, Europe, and Japan;
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Provided insurance agencies across the USA the ability to use their legacy Windows application in the cloud;
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Added online database security to a Windows app for an Australia-based company;
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Built a web server and Android client app for a construction company on the island of Aruba;
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Helped programmers in the UK get set up with online source code repositories;
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Supported internet hosting customers for a start-up web company in the Philippines;
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Created a payment gateway for retailers in Canada to support Chinese tourists;
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Worked with editors in India to write a technical book.
We can work with you as well–wherever you are!
Passionate Technologists
If we didn’t truly enjoy what we do, we wouldn’t be here day after day, striving for top-notch quality in all we produce. A passion for excellence can be seen from the smallest details to the overall design of complicated projects. We employ best practices, keep up-to-date with technologies and trends, and frequent developer forums, advocating for proper design and learning tips and tricks from others.
With a never-ending thirst for knowledge, we make time to study new programming tools and languages, find better techniques for testing, and learn about products and styles of interactivity that customers expect us to understand and support.