We specialise in building web applications, with a focus on intuitive, responsive interfaces to manage complex workflows.
Our products:
- help people and organizations communicate and share knowledge;
- streamline existing business practices using web technologies;
- securely store and manage large volumes of data;
- integrate with existing IT infrastructure.
Our biggest web applications have been for customers in higher education. Our software is used to manage many university business practices, including student records, marks, online publishing of course content, and admissions.
Kahu
Kahu is a resource management application for schools and colleges, designed and developed in partnership with RTS Technology Solutions.
Kahu helps schools manage their estates including IT suites, laptop trolleys, digital cameras and minibusses. It combines timetabled resource booking with help-desk features for support teams.
For more information see http://www.getkahu.com
Image copyright Kahu.
PAPERS
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry commissioned us to build a web application to track students' progress through their degrees.
The resulting application, PAPERS, manages the complete academic and pastoral progression record of each of their 1800-strong student-body.
Image copyright Morley von Sternberg.
SBCS
Our largest suite of applications, written for the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London, serves 150 staff and 1500 students.
Our software is integral to the functioning of the School, supporting teaching, administration, and research and serving thousands of pages every day.
We created this poster covering our work with SBCS for a student support conference at QMUL.
Image copyright Chris Bray.
We have extensive experience developing web sites, from straightforward web pages to interactive, database-driven sites. We offer a number of services including:
- page templating and design;
- information organization;
- integration of existing products, such as bulletin boards;
- integration with Content Management Systems and Dreamweaver.
Our web sites are fully compliant with both web and accessibility standards, and work in all major web browsers. We can also provide hosting if required.
CEE
The Centre for Ecology and Evolution is a research group linking scientists across London, fostering collaboration between researchers in ecology and evolution.
The CEE web site is hosted on Squarespace. We developed a custom seminar calendar that pulls content dynamically from Google Calendar.
We also linked the CEE's blog, seminar feeds, Twitter, Facebook pages, and mailing lists, keeping all of these information sources up to date with the latest developments.
Image copyright the Centre for Ecology and Evolution.
Squirrelweb
SquirrelWeb is a news site for people involved in red squirrel research and conservation.
The site comprises a custom WordPress blog, an image gallery, and several pages of static content. Untyped designed the site and branding.
Image copyright SquirrelWeb.
Island Three
We designed the promotional web site and MySpace page for unsigned rock band Island Three.
Untyped designed the site to reflect the band's album branding. It integrates with Google Calendar to provide the band's gig listings, and PayPal for merchandise sales.
Image copyright Island Three.
We offer the following consultancy services for small and medium enterprises:
- analysis of software needs;
- advice on available solutions;
- software specification, design, and development;
- data and process migration;
- staff training and support.
We are able to work with customers' existing IT staff and infrastructure, lowering production and maintenance costs.
Our staff have strong backgrounds in training and education, and provide excellent training and support.
ARCS
The Academic Registry and Council Secretariat at Queen Mary, University of London is a newly-formed department, responsible for the University's policies and regulations. ARCS required a web site to provide access to thousands of important documents.
Untyped helped ARCS organise all their information into a single site that is simple to maintain and easy to navigate.
Image copyright Queen Mary, University of London.
We offer a range of bespoke web site hosting options:
- complete site hosting and maintenance;
- secure and reliable backups;
- customisable server configurations, including support for a wide range of server-side technologies;
- dedicated, on-site server installation and remote support.
If off-site hosting is inconvenient, we also offer supported on-site installations: you provide a server computer, and we install and manage the software you need.
Transterpreter
The Transterpreter is an open source virtual machine for creating embedded systems with a high degree of concurrency, such as robots and other sorts of device.
The web site for the Transterpreter project is hosted on Untyped servers alongside many other web sites.
Image and the Transterpreter logo copyright The Transterpreter Project.
PAPERS hosting
Our PAPERS student records application is installed on a dedicated, on-site server at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
We advised on hardware procurement, installed and configured the server, and provided the small amount of staff training required to use the software. We now manage and maintain server and site in partnership with the School.
Thumbnail photograph Morley von Sternberg, images copyright Queen Mary, University of London.
We base our applications on reliable open source software foundations, such as Apache, PLT Scheme, jQuery, and Google Web Toolkit.
As part of our application development, we write, maintain, and contribute to a number of open source products ourselves, including:
- Snooze - a database persistence framework for PLT Scheme;
- Mirrors - XML and Javascript reflection languages for PLT Scheme;
- Smoke - an object oriented user interface toolkit for web applications;
- Delirium - a Javascript UI testing framework;
- Schemeunit - a unit-testing framework.
Interested developers can find many of our libraries on our Github page.
We take our work seriously and we always like to stay on the cutting edge of web technology.
The technology we created for our work with the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences led to a paper at ICFP 2007 and a presentation at CUFP 2007.