I am the Co-founder, Director and Chief Technical Officer of Pole Star Space Applications Limited. The company was founded in 1998.

The company tracks over 23,000 merchant ships for over 1,000 clients.

We use numerous technologies such as:
Scala, Specs,
Java, JUnit, Mockito, Guice, Joda-Time,
SLF4J, Logback,
Servlet API,
JMS, ActiveMQ,
Apache Camel,
JAX-WS, Apache CXF,
JAX-RS, Jersey, Restlet,
MongoDB, Casbah, Salat,
SQL, JPA2, JPQA, JTA, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, H2, Squeryl,
JavaScript, JQuery, Web 2.0, AJAX,
GWT, GWT-Comet, GWT-OpenLayers, GWT-GChart, GIN, GXT, SmartGWT,
XMPP, Emite,
LDAP, ApacheDS, Active Directory, JAAS, Apache Shiro,
Maven, Ant,
JBoss, EJB3,
Wicket,
Enterprise Architect, UML, TDD, BDD, ROA, DDD, MVP,
Fedora, CentOS, SQL, XSL, HTML, CSS,
JMX,
Puppet.

We use the following tools to manage the business:

• FogBugz project management tool
• Octopus holiday management tool
• View SVN source control view tool
• Statistics SVN source control statistics tool
• Hudson continuous integration tool
• Nexus Maven repositiory tool
• Wiki business process documentation tool
• SalesForce contact relationship management tool
• Live Meeting web conferencing service

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