Projects

Besiex, Inc. has been involved in various interdisciplinary projects over the last 15 years alone. Below are a few of those projects worked on by the varying departments.

Computerworks Division

Clients, Collaborators, & Subsidiaries

Besiex, Inc. is involved as owner, partner, or collaborator with the following Internet sites and companies.

CR*AM - Protecting the internet, one URL at a time
MEMEdex - Social networking + opinion research site
DriverGuide.com - World's leading driver, firmware, and support site!
iCentric.com - Client, DriverGuide.com, HealthBoards.com, and more.
Glowfoto - Social networking photo sharing site
TryMeIn - Providing access to paid sites through free trial downloads
MyUpdates.com - Software Update Site (coming soon)
Chang Jiang Collective - A wiki resource and manual for the Chinese Army's Chang Jiang motorcycle.
Mapulator - Geospatial tools (Google Maps Traceroute Mashup)

Software

Besiex, Inc. has developed the following software applications/systems for our clients and ourselves.

User Management System (TCL and PHP)
Content Management System (blog-like) (PHP and TCL)
Templating & wiki system, with multi-language support and caching (PHP)
Caching system (can cache to file system, memcached, database, and ramdisk) (TCL and PHP)
Counter and reporting system (TCL and PHP)
Affiliate system for large shopping system, including user and backend reporting (TCL)
Database abstraction layer (includes ability to use multiple read servers, and caching) (PHP)
Registry System for user meta data (PHP)
Search engine optimized for driver searching (PHP)
PHP Performance Monitor, tracks performance metrics of PHP scripts (PHP)
Database Monitor, tracks performance metrics of DB calls (PHP)
DriverGuide Toolkit backend, storage retrieval of driver version information (PHP)
Website Trust System (PHP)
DriverGuide Toolkit, Windows application driver scan and updater (VB) (managed, led, or participated in project)
DriverGuide DriverScan, ActiveX embedded driver scan and updater (VB) (managed, led, or participated in project)
Search engine spider, for finding drivers, firmware, utilities, etc. (PHP)
Personalized portal and homepage system similar to what MySpace became (alpha, TCL)
FEM learning tools (Java)
Free Intergrated Java Development Environment (Java)
Proxy platform with plugins which supported email spam filtering, auto-pgp encryption/decryption, banner/ad/content blocking in http, nntp spam filtering, auto language translation, and more. (Java)
Mobile transcoding gateway (Java)
Build and package management software, pre-ant (Java)
Hotel Room Kiosk System (Flash Actionscript, WDDX to EJB backend)
Chat system (PHP)
Discussion system (supporting threaded, non-threaded) (TCL)
Discussion system (object oriented, highly extensible, objects included supported a threaded discussion, a user-edited faq, and something else I can't recall). (PHP)
vBulletin UMS bridge (managed, led, or participated in project)
vBulletin mod for virtual forums (managed, led, or participated in project)
Premium Membership System (managed, led, or participated in project)
Chat Light System allows users to view active chat activity on every page of a site (managed, led, or participated in project)

Motorworks Division

Besiex, Inc.'s more than hundred year relationship with motorworks continues with its involvement in both motorcycle and motorcar projects.

Chang Jiang Collective - Chinese Army Sidecar Motorcycle Wiki
Black Kat Motorwerks - Vintage BMW Motorcycle Sales & Service
Vintage Sidecar Excursions - A tour of South America w/ 1930s motorcycles (coming soon)
Besiex amphibious car - defunct

Animal Welfare & Behavior Division

Besiex, Inc. is keenly interested in animal welfare and improving the value of human-animal interaction.

Dogmote - positive dog training system (in development)
MuchLove.org - Developed their content management and template system

Papers + Positions

Hello Nanotechnology, Bye, Bye Money! - an exploration of how nanotechnology could change the world
Hyperspace: Implications and Methods of Proof - a theory about the implications of hyperspace, and how it might be proved
Warez Manifesto - a position paper arguing that warez (and piracy in general) are not only ethically and morally sound but imperative for society, provided that such piracy does not cause excess damage to the content producers

Inventions

Portable Drive-In - a large scale mobile drive-in movie theater screen lofted by weather balloons
Portable Single Kernel Popcorn Popper - a modified Zippo (tm) lighter for cooking one piece of popcorn