E-gineering partnered with an education company to architect and build a software solution for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) students. The goal was to allow the students, faculty, and family members to track high-altitude weather balloons, which transmit data such as altitude, temperature, and location. This information had to be captured, saved to a database, and displayed on a map and a graph in near real-time. Social integration with each flight was also required. E-gineering addressed these challenges by… [continue]
Getting MEAN
When Stratostar approached E-gineering to provide their next-generation solution for tracking high-altitude balloons, near real-time graphing, and Twitter integration, we decided to get MEAN… MEAN.JS that is. (Okay, I admit that was bad, but it got your attention, right?) What is MEAN.JS? MEAN.JS is one of the most popular open-source projects which provides a full-stack JavaScript solution. MEAN.JS is composed of the following major components: MongoDB Express AngularJS Node.js Advantages of MEAN.JS One Language In a traditional web application using… [continue]