Jim Murphy
Owner
River City Software Development LLC
Austin, TX US
Phone: (512) 295-5934
Email: jim.murphy@rcsdev.com
www.rcsdev.com

MVP since October 1, 2006

Service Area

Jim is willing to travel to your place of business or wherever his services are needed.

Service Offerings

Jim is a full-time private consultant and the owner of River City Software Development LLC. He is an expert in the Software Development Life Cycle using Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/D) methods. Jim has more than 16 years of experience in the development of database-driven applications of all sizes for industries such as Health Care, Insurance, Banking/Lending, Real Estate, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Government. He is highly versatile, having worked on large multi-million dollar enterprise systems with Database Clusters and Web Farms to small weekend ‘get-me-out-of-trouble’ projects.

Jim has built a strong reputation for rapid development without sacrifice. He is committed to quality and is a firm believer in thorough testing. Although Jim is highly technical, he has the ability speak "business" to business people, and "geek-speak" to technical staff, often playing the role of translator to facilitate effective communication between the two.

Jim is available to help you in the following areas:

  • Business Analysis / Requirements Gathering

  • Application Development

  • Database Design

  • Technical UML Documentation

  • Training and Mentoring

  • Reporting

Training

Fundamentals of Iron Speed Designer
This course takes application generation to the next level! Explore beginning and intermediate topics in this four hour, online course taught by Iron Speed MVPs. (Customers only)

Case Studies

Servant7
Digital Legal Services
Houston, TX USA
Servant7 is a document warehouse for Digital Legal Services that provides various services to law firms dealing with class action suits.
July 24, 2009

PFM Reports
PFM LLC
Bellaire, TX USA
PFM Reports categorizes tracts of land under different projects so field managers and administrators can assign work appropriately.
April 21, 2009

The CommFact Application
TheCommissionFactor
San Marcos, CA USA
CommFact is used by the real estate agents and brokers to request an advance on their real estate commission.
September 29, 2006

Video Demos

Windows Authentication security
Iron Speed Designer V6.X
October 1, 2009

Articles

Improve Application Performance By Using Indexes
This article shows you how to develop applications with better performance out of the gate, even if you don’t have a DBA.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
April 14, 2008

Active Directory in Generated Applications: Authenticating Against an LDAP Server
In this article, Jim discusses a more complicated business requirement where the user’s password also needs to be verified; in this case, against an LDAP server.
Iron Speed Designer V4.X
July 6, 2007

Active Directory in Generated Applications: Simple Authentication
Integrate Active Directory with an Iron Speed Designer generated application.
Iron Speed Designer V4.X
March 27, 2007

Background

Jim Murphy is owner, chief application designer, and developer for River City Software Development LLC. Jim has been programming professionally for more than 16 years in fields that include Health Care, Insurance, Banking/Lending, Real Estate, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, and Government.

Jim was an early adopter of Iron Speed Designer and worked closely with Iron Speed engineers while the product was maturing. Jim’s major strengths are in Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, C#, Visual Basic .NET, XML, and Reporting.



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