Matt co-founded Cantina in 2007 as an emerging technology consultancy. With over twelve years of experience in consulting, technology architecture, development and social networking Matt is building a new model of consultancy that uses the talents of hands-on technologists who understand business goals and concerns. He has worked with consumer-oriented organizations such as Analog Devices and Endeca as well as major financial institutions such as UBS, JP Morgan, and the Financial Times. Matt holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Systems Engineering from Boston University.
Cantina President/CEO Matt Chisholm and Alec Francesconi Principal Consultant, Program Management, discuss business requirements, what they are, different types, Agile vs. Waterfall management and how to prioritize them in this multipart video.
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Here is a recent article on the Appmarket.tv site titled Facebook: 1.65 Billion Likes of TV Shows – Recommendation Engine on Steroids which loops in factoids from sources including Inside Facebook, Lost Remote and Endemol to discuss how viewers are using social channels to discover programming they value. [...]
Read MoreIt appears that the limitations of Grails object relational mapping (GORM) – only allowing connections to a single datasource – has been resolved with a new plugin from Burt Beckwith. This feature which allows application architects to design systems that can shard data across federated databases has been [...]
Read MoreContinuing with my Grails plugin love fest, I spent several 3-4 AM nights digging into how to integrate Red5 RTMP streaming into my Grails Video plugin. The two options I came up with were: Leave the Red5 functionality as a separate WAR and use a shared directory which [...]
Read MoreHi All, adding to the new found obsession we have for Groovy on Grails, we ripped out a Video Plugin to convert and display flash videos. Hopefully it will give folks something fun to play with on the weekend You can find information about the plugin on our [...]
Read MoreI have been playing around with Red5 Media Server, the open source flash server. I have to say – wicked cool. I’d never be able to afford a working version of Flash Media Server but always wanted to play around with the functionality. I’m amazed at the way [...]
Read MoreOne question we get a lot at Cantina is that of whether Grails is a passing fad, or if it is something that has some staying power. We have gotten that question (in some form or another) quite a bit, so it might help to explain where we’re [...]
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