Focus

Reichert Brothers is a Haskell Consulting company based in Houston, Texas. Our primary focus is to provide support, encouragement, and consulting services to businesses using Haskell and other statically typed languages. We provide a high-quality range of services including Bespoke Development, Training, System Maintenance, and Advice. Contact us with any inquiries or just to say hello!

Services and Expertise

We are truly passionate about Haskell development and the surrounding community. In our experience, well written Haskell code produces a software product of superior stability and correctness.

We enjoy working with companies who:

       Are currently using Haskell

       Are considering using Haskell

       Would like training or mentorship on Haskell adoption

We have worked with companies and organizations on:

       Graphical user interface development

       Oil and gas exploration tooling

      Scientific computing tools

       Academic research applications

      Web based software and networking stacks

      Debit Transactions

       Computer graphics (OpenGL)

We primarily work remotely which gives us the capacity to work with projects regardless of their geographical location.

Our Services Include:

       Bespoke Application Development and Tooling

       Bug Fixing

       Mentorship

       General Consulting

 

Experience and Releases

HSTorChat                                                                                2014

HSTorChat is a secure messaging application using Onion Routing and Tor Hidden Services that implements the TorChat protocol and is compatible with the original client.  HSTorChat uses the HsQMLSocks, and Attoparsec packages.

Kirq                                                                                          2011-Present

Kirq is a stand alone, cross-platform, desktop application written in Python and Qt. Kirq was designed as a wrapper for libfsqca.  Kirq was developed and designed by Christopher Reichert along with Claude Rubinson, professor of Sociology at The University of Houston – Downtown.  A paper describing Kirq can be found here: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11135-012-9694-3.

HsGUI                                                                                       2013

HsGUI is a standalone GUI application template written in Haskell. HsGUI provides a starting point for writing GUI apps in Haskell and provides support for GTK UIs in glade format as well as built in command line argument parsing. HsGUI utilizes the Haskell GTK packages.

QMLFay                                                                                   2013

Experimental QML and Haskell Integration Using the Fay Compiler. QMLFay is an experimental QML JavaScript library generator that utilizes the Fay compiler.

HSWebApp                                                                              2013

HSWebApp is an example Bitcoin web application template in Haskell using HappStack and JMacro.

Phonion                                                                                   2013-2014

Phonion is an experimental VoIP and messaging via Tor Hidden Services. Phonion builds on a forked version of Mumble, which creates a library to use VoIP over Tor via TCP networking.  Phonion also uses Boost.Python and a forked version of TorChat to establish messaging services.

Okular                                                                                     2012

Improvements to Okular search and highlighting as well as several bug fixes.  Okular is built on C++ and Qt using the KDE Framework.

Tomahawk                                                                              2012

Tomahawk is a desktop music player written in Qt/C++, which aggregates music sources. Christopher Reichert authored the meta data editor and Last FM Loved track feature integration for desktop client in C++.

Tomahawk - Android                                                              2012

Authored original core of Tomahawk-Android in Java (now maintained by Enno G.

CheckAFlip                                                                              2013

An eBay average pricing calculator that utilizes data from Craigslist to identify potential flips for profit. CheckAFlip was built on Python and Django with a custom REST API for mobile clients.

CheckAFlip - iOS                                                                     2013

CheckAFlip for iOS is built on Objective-C and utilizes the CheckAFlip API to gather and display listings.

CheckAFlip - Android                                                              2013

CheckAFlip for Android is built on Java using the Android SDK and utilizes the CheckAFlip API to gather and display listings.