Pixieware Software, PICK database and Web extractions

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* Start It Here!

Pixiware Software specialising in the following Products and Services:

Pixiware Software provides Solutions and Services to design and develop user friendly, efficient websites, which are responsive to all screen sizes.
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Pixiware Software provides Solutions and Services that will connect you easily, quickly, and reliably to PICK databases, and also to the Internet resource where data is allowed to be shared and reused. The solutions offered are inexpensive to set-up and easy to use.

* Website design and development


Creation of website (maximum 5 pages). Price: CDN$400 per website, CDN$100 of fee is due as an up-front down payment, and CDN$300 of fee is due on project completion.

Many years of software development experience will permit the design of a great looking, user-friendly and responsive website.

Creation of website (maximum 5 pages). Price: CDN$400 per website, CDN$100 of fee is due up-front as a commitment down payment, and CDN$300 of fee is due on project completion.

Creation of website (maximum 5 pages). Price: CDN$400 per website, CDN$100 of fee is due as an up-front down payment, and CDN$300 of fee is due on project completion.

This "Website Development Package" offer does not include any additional external fees related to the project (e.g.):
⚫ Domain-name registration fee (annual fee)
⚫ Website hosting fee (monthly or annual fee)
⚫ Email-accounts processing fee (if relevant, a monthly or annual fee)
⚫ Any other fee related to domain name re-location or change of name server

website design, data extractions from PICK and The WEB Turn your WEB vision into reality.

* WWW data extractions (scraping)


Our programmable software utility (Pixirobot), is used to perform routine web-scraping tasks on command. Pixirobot operates automatically in an unattended mode with precision, against most forms of targeted websites.

Pixirobot is an automated web robot, a program that visits websites, reads the pages, inspects the HTML, processes instructions or coded rules, extracts data, and saves the data in another more structured format (e.g. Excel). Pixirobot only visits the pages needed, making the extraction process more efficient and productive, as only the targeted data is collected. An efficient way to perform Web Scraping, Data Extraction and Web Data Mining activities.

* PICK database Extractions


Pixiweb is our toolkit for moving data in and out of telnet server data stores (e.g. PICK databases). The core of the product is our COM connectivity object making this a "socket with attitude". It connects to the main telnet TCP/IP port(s) of an PICK Server in a way similar to terminal emulators. So you get the reliability, speed and familiarity of that rock-solid time-honored connection method, enhanced by a command set specifically designed to process and manipulate PICK-style commands (TCL, English) and PICK data. A great tool to extract data from a PICK database.

* Web It Here!

* Website design and development


In addition to our normal website development process, we are currently offering the following special "Website Development Package" for small-sized, uncomplicated starter websites.

Many years of software development experience will permit the design of a great looking, user-friendly and responsive website.

Creation of website (maximum 6 pages). Price: CDN$400 per website, CDN$100 of fee is due up-front as a commitment down payment, and CDN$300 of fee is due on project completion.

This "Website Development Package" offer does not include any additional external fees related to the project (e.g.):
⚫ Domain-name registration fee (annual fee)
⚫ Website hosting fee (monthly or annual fee)
⚫ Email-accounts processing fee (if relevant, a monthly or annual fee)
⚫ Any other fee related to domain name re-location or change of name server

website design, data extractions from PICK and The WEB Turn your WEB vision into reality.

We will develop a hand-coded (editor written) website, which is not template based. It will be inexpensive to create and set-up, and will be a good looking, professionally developed, user-friendly website. With a flexible page layout and construction, the customer is in control of the project from start to finish. The website is not tied to any particular web-host or template design it will be tailored to your own unique requirements. The latest HTML, CSS, Bootstrap codings and Java-scripts are employed to the greatest effect.

Pixiware Software's " Website Development Package" Features
⚫ Hand-coded (editor written) web-sites, not template based; tailored exactly to your needs
⚫ Inexpensive to create and set-up
⚫ Good looking, professionally developed, user-friendly, web sites
⚫ Flexible page layout and construction, manually controlled from start to finish
⚫ Latest HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, used (including jScript and jQuery)
⚫ Meta Tag Creation for all Pages
⚫ Web-site is search engine ready
⚫ Will work in most popular browsers
⚫ Fast to load
⚫ Efficient in use of server disk space
⚫ Assistance with domain registration
⚫ Assistance with web-host (ISP) selection
⚫ Assistance with Email generation and email server/client set-up
⚫ If you supply the copy, we will provide free monthly text edits (up to 15 minutes of work), for 12 months.
⚫ Friendly service that will explain all steps from inception, through development, to implementation
⚫ No compromise on quality

Pixiware Software's " Website Development Package" includes:
⚫ Email and phone consultations to ensure clients needs are understood in relation to web-page layout and design (e.g. colour schemes, page links, graphics, and text-formatting)
⚫ Creation of web pages
⚫ Image processing is restricted to: retouching, resizing, cropping, reformatting, adding text, and other simple image editing tasks
⚫ Domain-name registration
⚫ ISP Host selection
⚫ Web-hosting co-ordination, including FTP set-up, and site publication on the web.
⚫ Email account set-up and guidance on email collection
⚫ Web-site testing prior to publishing
⚫ Customer sign-off
Give us a SHOUT. We may be able to provide an extra special quote for NON-PROFIT and CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (yes, special price apart from external fees).

* Dig It Here!


* WWW data extractions (scraping)


Our programmable software utility (Pixirobot), is used to perform routine web-scraping tasks on command. Pixirobot operates automatically in an unattended mode with precision, against most forms of targeted websites.

Pixirobot is an automated web robot, a program that visits websites, reads the pages, inspects the HTML, processes instructions or coded rules, extracts data, and saves the data in another more structured format (e.g. Excel). Pixirobot only visits the pages needed, making the extraction process more efficient and productive, as only the targeted data is collected. An efficient way to perform Web Scraping, Data Extraction and Web Data Mining activities.

* PICK database Extractions


Pixiweb is our toolkit for moving data in and out of telnet server data stores (e.g. PICK databases). The core of the product is our COM connectivity object making this a "socket with attitude". It connects to the main telnet TCP/IP port(s) of a PICK Server in a way similar to terminal emulators. So you get the reliability, speed and familiarity of that rock-solid time-honored connection method, enhanced by a command set specifically designed to process and manipulate PICK-style commands (TCL, English) and PICK data. A great tool to extract data from a PICK database.

Pixiweb is an end-user friendly middleware connection tool, that transmits source data from PICK in a format that can be used by all common Windows tools. Pixiweb can be used for extracting data from, or inserting data into, most PICK databases. But since it is not possible to directly execute its DLL (it requires an EXE for the operating system to load it through its entry point). If there is not a host application to run Pixiweb, then we use Pixirobot as the host.

Pixiweb is a general purpose connectivity device operating between Windows and many text-based systems. It is an ActiveX .dll providing access to the text-system via Telnet and is a general connectivity alternative for ODBC. Clients can be browsers, VB (or other COM aware languages), as well as Windows desk-top applications (through VBA). Pixiweb includes a special command-set to extract formatted data from a text-style application (e.g. PICK) to the user-agent. The commands understand the PICK database multi-value structure.

Benefits include:
⚫ Output of simple and consistent data from terminal-style PICK/DMS programs by screen-scraping.
⚫ A tool-kit for PICK data access, which can be used to solve a wide variety of common data access problems.
⚫ A low-cost, reliable and high-performance universal socket-based data connection component.
⚫ Get's more from your data by feeding: reports, spreadsheets, and data analysis produced by the best tools available.

If you need a copy of Pixirobot or Pixiweb to try for a 30-day trial period, please send us an email. Full documentation, and applicable prices to purchase, will be provided.


* Make It Here!


Pixiware Software Outsourcing Services for Data extractions from the Web or PICK

We can perform all outsourcing services to support your data extraction projects. For example:
⚫ The data will be extracted from the web or from PICK.
⚫ The data may be required to be manipulated or refined.
⚫ The data will be stored in a permanent storage of your choosing: SQL-type database, Excel, XML, text-file.
⚫ The extracts may need to be scheduled to run on a regular basis.
⚫ Some data may even need to be sent to PICK for storage.
⚫ You may run the extraction process or it can be run on our site.

We can develop all of the above using the Pixiware Software tool-kit. Not only do we have the technology but we'll also focus on your needs. We can provide a quote for outsourced work, or do a project on a time and materials basis if required. Check with us for our current casual contract programming rates. We have experience with VB, VBScript, JScript, Java, MV-Basic (several flavours), HTML 5.0, CSS, and XML to complete your project.

* Poetize It Here!

My poetry can be found here: Click To View Dave's Poetry

As Pixiware Software Outsourcing Services for Data extractions from the Web or PICK takes up less of my time, I will use this channel to exhibit works of my other passion (apart from software development) that of writing poetry.

Upon reflection I actually believe that writing a software program and writing a poem take on the same mental structure, I use the same methodology for each. Get an idea or be provided a specification, plan out the task, write the task, test the task until satisfied with the end result.

I have split my poetry into the following groupings:
⚫ Introduction
⚫ Nature
⚫ Cosmos
⚫ A general Mix
⚫ My Favorite Poems written by others

I have always scribbled notes down about my thoughts, even in the dark hours of a morning, using a pen and pad beside the bed. Whether it was a line of code fixing a software program, or an appealing piece of lyrical verse for a new poem. My latest note for the start of a rhyme was "I smelt the smelts", after the wife complained about the smelts I was cooking, but no complaints from the dog. A poem about the smell of seafood cooking will follow later.

As a semi-retired software developer and web-site designer, my verse compositions have been an enjoyable change of pace (no deadlines to face). My poetry verses are my poetic expressions of my observations of nature (which many people ignore), and their poetic nature convey my humour and empathy with my surroundings, from the sea, to the earth, to the cosmos, and all life-forms therein (including those in other worlds).

My poetry can be found here: Click To View Dave's Poetry

Dave can be Contacted Here:
My Email: I live in: Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

To Contact Pixieware:

Phone:
519-577-8878

Email:

Address:
Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.