AETN - History Channel
MyHistory was created to provide a first-person look at history, more intimate than what usualy makes it to the air, allowing also the users to upload their own 3-5 minute productions and providing tools to give them a professional look. It was conceived with the idea of embedding this application in any web page, so the administrative backend provides a javascript code that allows you to do exactly that.

The application uses Brightcove, an online video platform, that provides the media player and storing of videos. We've participated in all aspects of development, and also in the make of a Ruby module to interact with the Brightcove API and the FTP provisioning it provides, for which we also had to manage the transcoding of videos to meet their standards.

Currently two different instances are live, one for Germany and the other for Latin America, with styles and special requested features customized for each country.
The International Online
The International is an independent company that produces a publication that raises awareness about important world issues and brings the information to a broad audience while maintaining high journalistic standards.

Our mission was to make a complete graphics redesign of their existing application, along with several new features such as an automatically generated pdf magazine each month, image editing for articles and magazine, job board, full text search engine, weather and live stocks widgets, and finally all the payment logic and credit card processing for their print and web subscriptions plan.

The payment is tied to the Beanstream gateway from Candada, which required us to extend the Active Merchant gem in order to add recurring billing capabilities for that particular gateway.
V Street Media - Indieoma
Indieoma's goal is to take an independent look at life through the prism of art and ideas, featuring and editorial playlist of videos and music.

Indieoma offers a fully enabled AJAX experience through all the site navigation. This means that clicking a link won’t interrupt the video or audio stream. Allowing the user to navigate and personalize his online media experience, exploring, discovering, sharing his comments with the community, uploading his own videos and music, and easily customize what he wants to watch and listen.

We were part of the team in charge of the full administration of the site, development, deployment and performance tuning.
MyWebPost
MyWebpost fetches posts from hundreds of rss feeds, categorizing the information and making it available while you surf through IE and Firefox plug-ins. With MyWebpost you don’t have to visit every interesting site to see if they have something related to the topic you are reading. MyWebpost brings what you like to you.

When we took this project, it was almost 3 years old and couldn't go live after several failures and different teams. We helped them go live.

Supports in it's critical functionality 60,000 requests per second. That functionality involves the use of a minimal web server (micro httpd) with a C module. Runs in a server farm with 9 servers. 2 mysqls (with replication), 1 critical operations (c module), 4 with the rails app (nginx in one of them and thin), 1 mail service, 1 for backup purposes and repositories.
Uruguayan Construction Chamber, Financial System

Intranet financial system for one of the mainly construction industries association in Uruguay. Manages critical financial data.
Uruguayan Construction Chamber, Website

Complete redesign of the Uruguayan Construction Chamber insitutional site, plus and administrative backend to let them update all the information. The site was originally written in PHP and we migrated it to Sinatra.

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Meet the team

Santiago Pastorino

Santiago is a Senior Web Developer with a Computer Science degree, passionate about creating extremely high quality products using the very best practices and getting things perfectly done. He is a strong believer in Open Source Software, in fact he is a very active Rails Core Contributor, and has made some contributions to many other Open Source projects. He is also the developer behind railsplugins.org (Rails3 version) and rails-benchs, one of the maintainers of rails_xss, acts_as_list, acts_as_tree, autocomplete plugins and is a Rails Mentor on RailsBridge. Lately he's performing an intership on Engine Yard that aims to improve the internals of Ruby on Rails. We believe he has a serious addiction to Coca-Cola and chocolate, but that's all the fuel he needs to code.
José Ignacio Costa

José is a Senior Web Developer who has been passionate about crafting software since 2001. As an excellent mix of a best practices activist and a pragmatic programmer, he became a natural problem solver and team leader. He's an agile and Ruby on Rails enthusiast and those arround him know his love for Test Driven Development and great quality software. He'd love to write the tests that prove your application has gone wrong, before he fixes it. In other words, he's a testing freak. He's a Rails Core Contributor, maintainer of rails_xss plugin and in his little spare time contributes to other open source projects.
Sebastián Martínez

Sebastián is an experienced web developer in constant search for the pragmatic excellence which leads to a continuous improvement of processes, methods and tools using lean approaches, web standards and expressive languages and frameworks. He has a natural instinct when finding the root cause of problems, often leading to solve them in the best possible way. He is a strong believer of agile techniques and Open Source, being himself a Rails Core Contributor. Also in his spare time, he manages to contribute to some other open source projects. He may have an unhealthy obsession with coffee, but nothing to worry about in the predictable future.
Martín Silva

Martín is a great Rails savvy designer, with a great ability to capture the clients artistic demands and bring them to life on the web using the tools and the knowledge he has been acquiring during the past 5 years as a professional designer. His extremely neat code, deep care for usability and theorical concepts makes the designer-programmer barrier disappear.

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“I worked closely with Santiago on patches he worked on for Rails. He worked on large projects, like backporting the Rails XSS protection to Rails 2.3. He also worked on simpler project requiring commitment, like eliminating warnings in tests in Ruby 1.9. Santiago has been a pleasure to work with. He's enthusiastic and skilled, and I'm always happy to work with him on his contributions to Rails.”

Yehuda Katz, Rails Framework Architect at Engine Yardwww.yehudakatz.com

“The guys at WyeWorks are smart and easy to work with. They have deep knowledge of Rails and are always willing to share it with other project team members. What is the most important for a company like ours is that they always deliver on time and on-budget.”

James Aspinwall, Systems Architect at The Atlantichttp://theatlantic.com

“I'm a huge Wye Works fan. I have used them for multiple projects. They have brought expertise, professionalism and quick delivery to all of them. I recommend them without reservation.”

Bill Via, CEO at V Street Mediawww.indieoma.com See more testimonials

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