What We Do

We solve your hard problems.

System Design and Development

When you have a business issue to be resolved, we can design and implement a solution in a cost-effective manner. This includes business process changes, training, and building systems to automate as much work as possible. The final result is a working system in production use.

We’re willing to take responsibility from initial business analysis through to helping you run the final systems; you can even deploy on our server network, if you like. Take on as much or as little of the IT management as your organization feels comfortable with. We’ll help you with that, and fill in the rest.

Software Products

We also have several different open source and proprietary software products available, some of which include technologies unavailable anywhere else in the world. All of them will help you do things that were previously difficult and increase your development productivity.

For several of our clients these products are a key part of their business models, giving them an edge through technologies that none of their competitors have.

More information is available on our products page.

News

2008-11-05 The next meeting of the Tokyo Society for the Application of Currying will be held at Starling’s office at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 27th.

2008-10-28 The next meeting of the Tokyo Society for the Application of Currying will be held at Starling’s office at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 30th.

2008-10-07 We moved our office from 904 to 201 in the same building.

2008-09-25 The next meeting of the Tokyo Society for the Application of Currying will be held at Starling’s office at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 9th.

2008-08-26 The next meeting of the Tokyo Society for the Application of Currying will be held at Starling’s office at 7:30 p.m. (note the new time) on Thursday, August 28th.

2008-07-12 We’ve put together a team (of sorts) for the ICFP Programming Contest this year. Read about the current breaking activities on our blog.

2008-07-09 The next meeting of the Tokyo Society for the Application of Currying will be held at Starling’s office at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 31st.

2008-02-29 We’re looking to hire a developer to help build and maintain a wide range of systems and web applications here at Starling Software. Experience is not as important as the ability to grasp a wide range of concepts and learn quickly. Here’s the full job posting.

2008-02-19 We have been doing a lot of work on our flash generation library and to show off our server-side flash generation we’ve put together a website to generate customized 待ち受け screens.

2007-11-12 We’ve just created a new blog here at Starling, this one for commenting on more technical issues, though non-technical people may still find some of the articles useful for insight into the development process. It’s called My Beautiful Code

2007-09-27 We’re excited to announce that we’ve open sourced one of our primary development tools. Our QAM application framework, written in Ruby, is now available under the MIT licence, which makes it free for anyone to use for any purpose.