About

When someone walks into a beautiful new home, you never here them gasp in amazement "Wow!  What a great foundation your house has!".  Similarly,  people often overlook great construction in software, but they notice real quick when it's not built well!

Foundational Software focuses on developing sturdy software in an agile manner that will stand the test of time.  We know you'll never look inside and analyze the fibers of the software to make sure things are in order and properly aligned.  However, we know that you'll appreciate the peace of mind that comes with having well built software that won't cause you to age quicker, get gray hair, or even lose your hair.

We believe a main purpose of life is to have joy.  We write software to help, not detract, from that purpose.

Focus

Jack all trades, master of none?  Not us.  We have a laser beam focus to create the most value possible in the area of our deepest passion.

• Ruby on Rails (website development)
  
• Ruby
  
• MySQL, Postgresql
  
• Apache / Fcgid and mongrel
  
• Linux Server Maintanence 

If you're needs fall outside of that, we probably know someone who does meet your needs.

Team

Foundational Software consists of one lead developer, a part time accountant, and a loosely built network of other independent freelance contractors.

Contact

Lead Developer

Tim Harper
734 S 320 W
Provo, UT  84601

(801) 815-5969 

Portfolio Sites

The Real Estatesman Group - Engineering and Design

Spin Student Life - Engineering

Matchbin.com - Engineering (with a team of other contracting engineers)

DJ Performances - Engineering and Design

Open Source

Calendar Date Select  - A popular and easy-to-use Rails Date Picker plug-in

Bundle-Fu  - Bundle and compress your assets in 10 seconds or less (of your time), and speed up your website load-time around 50%.

Active Scaffold - A Rails component to facilitate super-fast (in terms of development time) creation of AJAX crud interfaces.

RoleRequirement - Simple but Role based security for acts_as_authenticated, without the mess.

Rails Where - A flexible tool to help manage complex SQL where clauses, particularly in searches.