History of our organization
In late 2003, the FreddyWare trademark was first used by the founder, Frederick J. Ding, as part of the name of a customized browser. (This program is no longer available, and even we do not have it.)
Beginning in 2005, Frederick Ding began registering domain names for various web sites, the first of which was FreddyWare@School, a site with extensive educational content. In 2006, FreddyWare Solutions was founded to encompass a number of sites and to provide basic interactive services such as online forums.
With the addition of new sites not created by the founder or the organization, FreddyWare Solutions was disbanded and the FreddyWare Solutions Enterprise Network was formed to govern the 10+ Web sites.
Between 2007 and 2008, a number of defunct projects were abandoned in favour of the main projects, Geekie.org, FreddyWare-StudyNucleus, and PersonalLog, and a number of sites for educational organizations were added to FreddyWare's management.
By the summer of 2008, FreddyWare was maintaining more than 12 sites and helping to provide free web hosting, domain registration, and free blog hosting services, as well as operating various non-technology sites such as RHHS Music, RHHS RASA, and RHHS StuCo.
Goals
FreddyWare's aim isn't to generate profit. Rather, the goal of our organization is to provide appreciable content and useful services that will benefit everyone — including consumers, partners, and ourselves.
Technologies We Work With
FreddyWare develops sites in XHTML, CSS, and PHP. We have dedicated ourselves to standards-based Web design and aim to create standards-compliant and cross-browser, cross-platform Web sites. We develop interactivity and dynamic sites using PHP, an elegant and extensible server-side scripting language.
Sites in our network are hosted on servers running the popular and stable LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) configuration with support for other technologies such as Perl, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL.
Our organization embraces PHP + MySQL scripts and other programs that are open source in nature, and prefers software that is licensed under the GNU GPL, the Mozilla Public License, BSD licences, the Apache Software Licence, the MIT Licence, the Creative Commons licences, or in the public domain.