Sherpa program

Take advantage of decades of IT experience for a fraction of the cost. Subscribe now to secure a Sherpa to provide the technical guidance and assistance needed in today’s web development environment.


This program will save your developers and your managers time and as a consequence save your business money. In the current economic climate it is vital to get the maximum value possible from the resources available to you.

When a developer gets stuck on a technical problem all they need do is contact their Sherpa and discuss it with them. If it cannot be resolved on the spot then the Sherpa can take responsibility of the issue allowing the developer to continue on with productive work instead of asking another member of the team or searching the web for an answer.

According to a 2007 survey:

Better search is the most frequently cited improvement that would add benefit to online communities for technical information. Other suggestions included resident subject matter experts and moderators, live forums and policing of community content for accuracy and currency.

The Sherpa program provides this improvement to your team by handling the search for you, there is no easier way available to find answers to technical problems.

The survey also found:

Necessity of using multiple sources of technical information makes problem solving more difficult ... 75% of participants who work in IT saying that a comprehensive community that would answer questions without the need to visit multiple sites would be beneficial

This need to search multiple sources can be avoided by subscribing to the Sherpa program and letting us look after finding the answers for you. Unfortunately as the amount of information available on the web increases so does the amount of incorrect (and duplicated) information. This makes finding the answer appropriate to your problem even more difficult.


As well as problem solving your Sherpa can also provide advice on improving your development process incorporating such things as automated testing, continuous integration, issue tracking, deployment and application monitoring. There are huge long term savings to be had in this area, often with little overhead required to put them in place.

And on top of all that the Sherpa can also be used as a coding resource with our strength being in Java development.

100% of IT professionals who use online communities report that they benefit professionally from communities and 85% also benefit personally.

Your Sherpa is available by both email and instant messenger. Preferred instant messenger is Skype, which has the added advantage of also supporting voice calls. And of course it is freely available as a download.

Pricing is on subscription basis with no fixed term contracts required. Contact us now for a no obligation chat about your exact needs and how we can help you.


The following list some of the technologies we have experience. It is by no means an exhaustive list so if you need something that’s not there contact us for more detail.

Java, J2EE, Tomcat, Spring, GWT, Hibernate, JPA, mysql, HttpClient, Eclipse, Swing, XML, JDBC, HTML, JSP, Velocity, Unix, linux, Ubuntu, mac, windows, Restlet, jira, servlet, maven, junit, puppet, quartz, nagios, cruisecontrol, Javascript, JNI, CSS, SQL, Apache, hsql, applet, ant, lucene, json, ehcache, ajax, derby, wowza, resin, jmock, EasyMock, grinder, solr, aop, jws, ruby, php

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