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User experience design (UX) matters a lot to us at Cantina. A great user experience will magnify a successful technology implementation, while a bad user experience can turn success into disappointment. As one of Cantina’s UX experts I am often asked about learning resources for those who are [...]

Perusing my news feeds today, I came across an article entitled, Could Mobile Apps Be Evolutionary Dead End? by Steve Rubel of Ad Age Digital.  Steve posits that ‘Marketers May Find New Breed of Web Apps Preferable to Multiple Platform’.  The article goes on to discuss the fragmentation of [...]

In our continuing series of conversations with Dan Barron and George White they discuss the surprising recent announcements from HP, canceling not only the recently launched WebOS HP TouchPad tablet, but their discontinuation of all WebOS devices. Why is it that no one has come close to Apple’s [...]

2012 planning has begun. With September right around the corner we are seeing organizations across sectors including financial services, retail, educational/publishing, pharma, and healthcare focused on proving the need for funding and defining the scope and direction for planned 2012 initiatives. Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) are a common request, and [...]

Cantina announces XRay - a new assessment and design service to rapidly scope and define technical and business requirements. When facing enterprise-level, mission-critical technical infrastructure initiatives, many organizations find that their in-house technical resources are already fully utilized and do not have the time nor the emerging technology experience to [...]

Cantina is pleased to announce its new JumpStart service which simplifies the development of cost-effective proof-of-concept applications. Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) are a common request from organizations that are planning major application development initiatives. In order to align all stakeholders within the organization, clients are building functional prototypes which bring [...]

Cantina and Combined Jewish Philanthropies have submitted JewishBoston.com to Forrester’s Groundswell Awards. As a social media award it only makes sense that the awards themselves are socially enabled: you can view our JewishBoston.com entry here, as well as rate and review it. We encourage you to do so; we’re [...]

In an effort to learn Scala (or at least to a reasonable degree) I put together a Scala script that illustrates the primary language features especially as someone with Java/Groovy/Ruby knowledge. The hope here is to quickly give you a feel for the language while diving deeper into [...]

As noted previously, working in-browser when creating an App Cloud app is hugely useful as turn-around time is faster and the development tools are much better. While creating our first app we also created a tool called the App Cloud Emulator which further supports in-browser development. Main features [...]

Cantina’s Dan Barron and George White tackle the topic of getting clients and engineers on the same page. A free-flowing discussion with real-world examples and lessons learned.