Revel Software - Custom web applications, mobile solutions, and software consulting

Don’t just use technology. Revel in it.

Revel Software is a products, services and software company that provides custom web applications, mobile solutions, and consulting.

Products and Services

Do you need a Web site that informs, engages and sells? Revel Software can host your Web site, as well as create a space that enables you to easily and regularly update information.

Experience

Revel Software, founded by Nick Lamb, provides professional services to clients without the red tape of a corporate software team.

Windows Phone Project Structure with Scheduled Task Agent

Posted by Nick Lamb on Nov 3, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

I recently updated River Flows to support some of the Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) featues like multiple live tiles and scheduled task agents. The new scheduled task agent updates the background images of the live tiles every 30 minutes (great post on how to generate live tile background images)

Everything was great until I went to submit my app to the marketplace. It turns out there is a list of unsupported background agent APIs that can’t be in any assembly references for a Scheduled Task Agent project. Initially I had my Windows Phone Application project structured with a class library that was referenced in both the Windows Phone project as well as Scheduled Task Agent project. I had to re-structure the solution to this:

Once I had restructured the class libraries so that my Scheduled Task Agent project didn’t reference any unsupported APIs and I was still able to have good code reuse, the marketplace submission worked.

Custom wordpress featured content slider using jQuery

Posted by Nick Lamb on Sep 2, 2011 in Blog, Portfolio, Recent Projects | 0 comments

We recently made a custom featured content slider using jQuery that integrates with wordpress to allow featured articles to cycle on the homepage. Here’s a shot of the final product:

jQuery UI sortable lists

Posted by Nick Lamb on Aug 24, 2011 in Blog, Portfolio, Recent Projects | 0 comments

Here’s an example of some custom jQuery UI work that allows elements to be sorted, dragged, dropped and searched for.

River Flows Windows Phone 7 App

Posted by Nick Lamb on May 12, 2011 in Blog, Recent Projects | 0 comments

Revel Software just released it’s first Windows Phone 7 App called River Flows.

River Flows lets you check the current flow of any river in the United States so you know the best time to get out kayaking or rafting. You can save your favorite rivers so you can check them quickly and also check flows of rivers nearby using GPS. Information available in the app: current flow, guage height, charts of recent activity and maps of guage locations.

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Our Kids Our Schools

Posted by Nick Lamb on Apr 11, 2011 in Blog, Portfolio, Recent Projects | 0 comments

Revel Software has been working with Our Kids Our Schools for the past year developing their web application using CakePHP and MySQL. The site allows parents to order healthy school lunches for their kids that are delivered directly to their school. They are currently serving the South Denver Metro area. Check out some screenshots below and see their recent feature on Channel 7 News.