revolver have been appointed to provide IT production support services to Irish Life Retail.

This involves rapid response to online and batch system problems on the Irish Life mainframe system using Cobol, JCL, IMS and SQL developer. Irish Life are migrating the system to .Net technology.

This is a complex system with interfaces to a Java web front end, Oracle databases, and an XML link to the company's actuarial engine.

Designed by artist Néill O'Dwyer, the prototype for Megapixel has now been built by revolver

We have built a low-budget prototype of the video wall using an Arduino board and a small array of RGB LEDs.

The video files are processed using open source tools such as Processing and the Java programming language. The images are deliberately pixelated. They are broken into a grid and the colours within each box are averaged.

revolver has completed a complete rebuild of the Doylescapes website using the Drupal content management system.
 
The advantages of switching to Drupal are :
 
1) Excellent performance in Google and other search engines.
 
2) Do-it-yourself website updates mean that you don't have to pay web designers to make simple text changes to your site. This can result in savings of thousands of euros.
 

Five percussionists, a bass player and two vocalists performed the Afro-Cuban song “Compa Galletano” over a Guaguancó rumba rhythm.

Two digital media artists and one programmer used electronic sensors and motion-tracking techniques to drive a live video performance which took the audience on a unique journey to the roots of Afro-Cuban music.

The performance took place on Thursday April 29th 2010 as part of Project Brand New 5 in the Project Arts Centre in Dublin's Temple Bar.

revolver is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Sonna Samba website. We have redeveloped their website using Drupal and a new customised theme.

To see the results, visit http://www.sonnasamba.com.

In January 2010 we were given the task of rebuilding the Doylescapes website to make it more Google friendly. All of the text and links on the site were contained in a Flash animation which made it difficult for Google to analyse the site.

The UCD Humanities Institute launched a major digitisation project called the Irish Virtual Library and Archive (IVRLA) in 2005. The college has been digitising and cataloguing important research archives such as the Papers of Michael Collins and The Beckett Country Collection. The digitised objects are stored using Fedora Commons, a digital archiving tool. The aims of the project are to provide increased access to these valuable resources, while at the same time protecting the physical artefacts.

We are pleased to announce that we have achieved the prestigious W3Schools PHP Certification - with the Excellency Degree Notation. The Excellency Degree notation is only awarded to candidates who achieve a score in excess of 95% in the exam.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. For more information visit http://www.w3c.org.

Did you know that it is really easy to to setup and maintain your own website? We bet that your web designer didn't tell you that!