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Computer Systems Consulting & Software Development

Services		Consulting, development and systems integration, specializing in the use of Open Source software for rapid development of secure, reliable systems. Anything from CGI scripts to controlling conveyer systems; from automating MS Office tasks to secure internet or LAN based systems.
Expertise		Analysis, Architecture, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, User Interface, Integration, RAD.
	Technologies	Distributed Applications, Database, Client/Server, Internet Protocols, Components, Device Control, Java Native Interfaces, Message Oriented Middleware, various GUIs.
	Platforms	Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac. Earlier experience includes Tandem, AS400, Mainframes and even Series 10.
	Languages	C, C++, Python, SQL, Java, Javascript, HTML. Earlier experience includes TAL, COBOL, SCOBOL, S370 Assembler, Pascal and Modula2.
Location		Sedgwick Maine
Contact		Gordon McMillan gmcm at mcmillan-inc dot com (resume)
Open Source Products
	Installer	A toolkit for producing standalone executables from Python scripts. Works on Windows, Linux, most Unixen (including, with some tweaking, Max OS X).
	SCXX	A very lightweight Python / C++ API.
	MkSQL	An SQL front end to the MetaKit embedded database.
	Mk4py	The Python binding for the the MetaKit embedded database. Mk4py is included in the MetaKit download.
	License	These products are released under the MIT license.
	Contributing	Help make these products better. Report bugs, make feature requests or send me patches here. Fund continued development by making a contribution.
Tutorials
	Sockets in Python	An introduction to Sockets programming in Python. Python's socket interface closely follows the standard C interface, so this can be a useful resource for C programmers learning about sockets, too.
	Embedded Python	An introduction to embedding Python in C applications.
	Stackless Python	An exploration of the old Stackless Python from Christian Tismer. This includes a complete FTP server that will run on Windows (even Windows 95). The new Stackless is very different, and still evolving. When it settles down, a new tutorial will be forthcoming.