Archive for May, 2009

The Real Time Web

The changing dynamics of the web has been something we’ve talked a lot about lately.   The shift toward real time services has impacted the way companies are thinking about the web.  Twitter is currently leading the charge in the real time information and many people think it’s going to become the real time search engine [...]

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Plugin Development in Grails

We’ve had a bit of time to jump back into Grails plugin development (or maintenance as it were) and couldn’t be happier to find the recent improvements in Grails 1.1. The biggest improvement (though perhaps not advertised as such) to me, was the inclusion of functionality that allows plugin developers to build test applications against [...]

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Web Applications – What does it take?

One of the founders of Woofoo just wrote a terrific article on what it takes to build a web application called “Web App Autopsy“.  They were lucky enough to get some great information from three other firms, Blinksale, Feedburner and RegOnline.  I think the charts and information they put together are great, but if you [...]

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Putting a Stranglehold on your GUI Applications with wxPython

It’s been a few weeks now since I signed up with the group here at Cantina, and so far I’ve had a great time. I’ve had the opportunity to learn quite a bit about online video distribution & technologies, expand my knowledge of Flex / Flash, play around with Amazon’s Cloud solutions, and learn the [...]

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