Parker Smith Software

 

Welcome

We find that people are amazed at what the right technology can accomplish for them. That’s why we created Parker Smith, a software development firm that pushes the envelope. If innovation is the key to success, we can help you unlock a lot of doors.

The benefits of custom software aren’t only for the Fortune 500. We make sure they are accessible to any company, regardless of size or budget. It’s all about turning your clutter in clarity, your problems into solutions, and your ideas into reality.

News

Nov 05, 2008 - Parker Smith gets office space in Glassworks Building
Oct 20, 2008 - Parker Smith to develop fitness training application for Olympic champion

Featured Projects

Four Roses Bourbon

Four Roses Bourbon

This premium bourbon producer asked for a modern website to promote its historic brands.

Our contributions: Ruby On Rails application development, XHTML/CSS development, Section 508 compliance, systems administration

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Carl Lewis

Carl Lewis

Carl Lewis, a nine-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field, wanted a new personal website to display his athletic, acting and modeling career information.

Our contributions: Ruby On Rails development, Hosting, Systems Administration

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Southeast Christian Church

Southeast Christian, one of the largest churches in the nation, wanted a method of sharing its media packages for various ministry programs with other Christian organizations across the country.

Our contributions: Ruby On Rails application development, server administration

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Recent Blogs

November 07, 2008
A script to make adding new GIT repos...
My friend Jesse and I were trying to figure out a way to make the process of working with new GIT repositories easier. We wanted to create a new GIT repository locally, creating a new remote repository and adding the remote to the local so that you can push your development changes out for others to collaborate with. This involves a number of commands locally, then logging into your server, creating folders and git repositories there, then adding the rem...
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November 06, 2008
Improve your workflow with aliases
When working with the command line there are a lot of different commands that you may use, git add, git commit, mysql etc. So why not improve your workflow and speed by making an alias or two to do those commands. This example assumes that you are working on a Unix based operating system and using bash as your shell. This is the case in our development environment on Mac OS X. The default shell in OS X is bash, so we'll stick these alias lines in a f...
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November 02, 2008
Remote execution of commands via SSH
Often when we have a long list of commands that we need to run on a remote server we'll use Capistrano to do this. Especially if the tasks are related to a project and we'll be moving files to the server, creating directories, restarting processes etc. But what if the task to be completed on the remote server isn't that complex, maybe just a couple commands. In this application Capistrano seems a little overkill, but at the same time we don't want to l...
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