The Android platform provides a great way to deliver rich and highly functional native mobile applications to an ever growing number of smartphone and tablet devices, and soon even your TV. With this platform comes a rich set of development tools, primarily based around the Eclipse development environment, but which also includes command line tools [...]
Well, the stats are in, and it’s official. The World Cup – considered by many to be the largest, most watched sporting event in the world – did in fact post the largest online video viewing numbers of all time as measured by a whole host of outlets and measurement services. Big deal, right? It’s [...]
I love Ruby on Rails. There are few things in life that bring me more joy than opening up Textmate and coding a Rails web app. That being said, my infatuation has been with Rails 2, and I’ve been itching to get working with Rails 3 – especially with the prospect of a release [...]
Lately I’ve been working on a multi-tenant web app that contains a good-size number of domain objects. Within these objects, there exists a sub-set belonging to a root object, and the need arose to be able to quickly duplicate / populate the data within these objects between different instances of the app. It has become [...]
Friendster… MySpace… Facebook? In what could be one of this summer’s only worthy entertainment highlights (Inception aside), it looks as if Boss Google may be ordering up a hit on the family Zuckerberg. Under the working title “Google Me” (ala “Analyze This”), the story also features Facebook’s agrarian darling Zynga, who has left the family [...]
Several market trends have been shaping the mobile services we offer at Cantina. The use of consumer technologies in the enterprise is increasing, including everything from Dropbox, social networks, Google apps, and mobile devices. Companies considering the deployment of business applications to the mobile context need to consider bring your own device (BYOD) strategies to [...]