Who we are
Flying Saucer is a web development shop founded by Chris Sessions and Seth Engelhard in Portland, Oregon.
What we do
Flying Saucer brings the best open source technologies together with custom web application development to meet your requirements. The solutions we deliver are elegant and easy to use, reliable and maintainable. Recent work has ranged from e-commerce solutions to social media sites, from content management systems to Facebook games.
We specialize in test-driven Ruby on Rails programming. Test-driven development makes your project more reliable and maintainable over time. Rails gives your project a rapid development framework and a mature ecosystem that’s constantly being improved by an innovative and passionate community. Having scaled Rails sites to handle millions of daily page views, we build every site to maintain performance under heavy demand.
Our client-facing code is clean XHTML/CSS optimized for strong search engine performance. We also have expertise in AS3 programming for dynamic Flash game and widget development.
Projects
Jitterbug is an open source Ruby gem developed by Flying Saucer. Jitterbug provides on-demand text-based header graphics using non-web fonts, and is an excellent solution for internationalization and other cases where dynamic rich text headers are required.
Contact us
To discuss your project and arrange for a free estimate, please email us or give us a call at (503) 288-3432.
Portfolio
Highly Evolved ~ 2007
- Ruby on Rails
- XHTML, CSS, Ajax, Flash AS3
Highly Evolved is a small web marketing and production company based in Los Angeles. This site was built as a means to feature portfolio pieces, keep clients and colleagues updated, and allow prospective clients to contact the company. It features a comprehensive content management system to allow the marketing team to keep the site fresh.
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Cuningham Group ~ 2007
- Online video transcription
- Ruby on Rails
- XHTML, CSS, Ajax, Flash AS3
Cuningham Group is an architecture firm with offices in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Las Vegas, Biloxi, Madrid, and Seoul. They wanted a site that was intuitive and fluid on the front end with a very heavy-duty content management system so that they could easily keep the content on their site up to date.
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Lindsay Ann Burke Memorial Fund ~ 2007
- Ruby on Rails
- XHTML, CSS
The Lindsay Ann Burke Memorial Fund is a non-profit corporation founded to honor the life of Lindsay Ann Burke, who was murdered by an abusive boyfriend. Highly Evolved provided this site pro-bono and Blue Box donated the hosting. It includes a very flexible content management system which allows administrators to add, remove and organize pages.
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I Love New York 2 Casting Site ~ 2007
(no longer live)- Ruby on Rails
- Scaled to linux server cluster
- Third-part video processing integration
- XHTML, CSS, Ajax, Flash AS3
This was the official casting site for Mtv’s I Love New York 2. The site served up to 1.4 million pageviews per day and was deployed to 5+ app servers, a dedicated memcached and NFS server, and a dedicated database server. The site was built from the same codebase as The Real World casting site (see below).
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The Real World Casting Site ~ 2007
(no longer live)- Ruby on Rails
- Scaled to linux server cluster
- Third-part video processing integration
- XHTML, CSS, Ajax, Flash AS3
This site was built on a custom platform we developed using Ruby on Rails. MTV used this platform for their other reality shows including I Love New York, Flavor of Love, My Super Sweet 16, and I Wanna Be Paris’ New Best Friend.
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