Web Engineering and Construction

Onset Industries is a software engineering and web hosting company consisting of a flexible, agile network of developers and administrators who enjoy working with open-source technology. We use experience, know-how and creativity to architect and build modern applications.

  • Web application development
  • Systems integration
  • Content Management System (Visycs CMS)
  • Custom and packaged eCommerce solutions
  • Fully Managed Web Hosting
  • System Administration
  • Mashups integration (Google maps, Flickr)
  • PHP5, Zend Framework, CakePHP
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Java, JEE
  • Javascript, AJAX, Jquery, Prototype
  • Flash, Actionscript
  • mySQL, postgreSQL, Oracle
  • Linux, Solaris, OS X, BSD

We also work with a number of advertising and graphic design agencies, providing development, system administration and consulting services to enable them to provide strong technical solutions to their clients without the need for in-house expertise.

Recent News and Projects

shop.ali.com

Ali.com store

One of the icons of the 20th century - an athlete and a personality without comparison - could he be The Greatest of All Time? There is no argument here. We were proud to partner with our friends at Circus Media to develop the official online store for Muhammed Ali Enterprises. Books, authentic signed memorabilia, and some excellent posters are all available through this custom catalog and e-commerce application, which is managed by MAE staff and integrates directly with their shipping and fulfillment partners.

· Posted: 25 Jan 2008 by sbeam
shop.ali.com
copleysociety.org

Copley Society of Boston [Co|So]

CoSo is the nation's oldest non-profit artists association and gallery. Provided with stellar design and direction by Torque9 Media, Onset integrated our Visycs CMS to allow CoSo staff to update their constantly changing Exhibitions and Special Events information. We also provided a custom e-commerce solution, allowing visitors to register for Artist Workshops, pay member dues and make donations online.

· Posted: 20 Aug 2007 by sbeam
www.copleysociety.org
stoopsales.com

StoopSales.com

A friend who has a passion for the streetside weekend sales that pop up all over Brooklyn got in touch with an idea to make her life, and those who share the love of the hunt, easier and more fun. Working from her design and direction, we developed Stoopsales.com, a site to find and list Stoop Sales (a yard sale for those with stoops) in Brooklyn, using Google Maps and Ruby on Rails.

· Posted: 15 Jul 2007 by sbeam
www.stoopsales.com
stoopsales.com

EBSCOhost

Onset was proud to work with EBSCO Publishing to maintain and extend their EHConnect application using J2EE and mySQL. This application gives library members and students across the world access to EBSCO's extensive database of academic and popular journal articles.

· Posted: 30 Apr 2007 by sbeam
EBSCOhost Connection
 

Contractors Needed!

Onset is always on the lookout for top-notch developers who can contribute to the team. We are not recruiters or head-hunters - we are closely involved with each project from kickoff to final delivery and support. Here are some of the skillsets we are looking for most urgently:

UI developer/designer

designer/developer to create standards-compliant, cross-browser, semantic (X)HTML and CSS application presentation layers with JavaScript interactivity. more...