Mac OS Development		Technologies

Mac OS X Experience

• Desktop applications: stand-alone and client-server applications, Carbon- and Cocoa-based, with custom user interfaces, with AppleScript, featuring database connectivity using MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, as well as enterprise-level databases, Automator workflows, custom automatic update solutions and the system-wide notifications, custom methods for the software copy protection, Preference Panes development;
• Advanced multimedia solutions for professional audio and video: audio and video acquisition and playback, development of the plug-ins for the Mac OS X audio processing applications, QuickTime components, custom DRM solutions, QuickTime and HTTP streaming of the audio data, MP4 container low-level processing, AAF processing, Quartz-based solutions, OpenGL-based WYSIWYG graphical editors, use of the libfaac (open source AAC encoder) and SDL (Simple DirectMedia Player), CoreAudio-based solutions, AudioUnits;
• Cross-platform applications: for Mac OS X, Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, from the kernel level to GUI;
• Rapid migration of existing applications to OS X Leopard: from other platforms (Windows, Linux) or Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X and from PowerPC to Intel platform;
• Native iPhone applications: using unofficial and official SDK from Apple;
• iPhone web applications: do not require iPhone SDK and can be easily distributed over the Web;
• Mobile solutions: advanced data exchange and synchronization between mobile devices and Mac OS X Desktop;
• Web-based solutions: dashboard widget development for Mac OS X Leopard, general webkit-based development, plug-ins to the web-browsers;
• Security solutions: implementation of various encryption algorithms, development of integrated solutions restricting user interaction with the computer and the network, encrypted communications over SSL;
• Extending the functionality of the existing Cocoa-based Mac OS X applications: with and without access to their source code;
• Networking solutions: TCP-based, UDP-based network communication including development of custom streaming protocols for high-performance multimedia data streaming, HTTP communication including development of distributed web-service-based solutions, FTP communication, DNS communication, iSCSI protocol implementation, zero-configuration protocols including SLP, Bonjour, firewall appliances, IM protocol implementations, OpenTransport framework;
• Device driver development: to operate custom and third party Macintosh hardware or to achieve specialized low-level system functionality;
• System programming: low-level programming including assembly, performance optimization, SIMD-specific optimization for PowerPC and Intel CPUs, communication with the USB and FireWire devices.