(Editor: We often have interesting chained email conversations about emerging technologies here at Cantina, which I plead with the participants to turn into blog posts. This rarely happens, at least in part because, as Alec pointed out: “the value in these threads is the back and forth of [...]
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I just saw this on Groupon today. Apparently, this tag puts a QR code on your pet. When scanned with a GPS enabled phone, it records the position. It’s not exactly “find my pet” but more “find the person who’s found my pet”. An interesting concept…. It does [...]
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jQuery makes it easy to do things. So much so, that developers can become complacent and not strive to make things better and faster. Selecting elements, loops and calendar widgets are all easier for us to build with jQuery, but it is easier to ignore what the browser [...]
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We do a lot of work with a variety of technologies here at Cantina, including popular frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Groovy on Grails, the Spring framework on Java, and many others. Over the years, the options for hosting these applications has continually improved. We’ve had success with [...]
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Dan and George talk about the essentially creative nature of writing software. Writing software isn’t a mechanistic activity, it’s more like painting with code.
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We are pleased to announce the start of a new, Cantina-sponsored meetup, Emerging Business Technology. The first free event has been scheduled: Native and HTML5-based mobile: strategies for mobile app development.
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