Matt is a ten-year veteran developer who has spent his professional career developing high-performance web apps as well as desktop and security software. He is expert in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Grails, and JSP as well as Assembly, C, C++, and Java. Matt has been an instrumental developer on projects for large-scale clients, including PUMA, Combined Jewish Philanthropies (JewishBoston.com), Philips, Endeca, and the Concord Consortium. He organized and occasionally speaks at the Boston Ruby on Rails Meetup Group and the MetroWest Ruby Users Group.
Yesterday, Apple announced the upcoming “Mac App Store”. For the typical end user, this is great. It makes finding software dead simple. Not only that, but the software is trusted to be high quality, and pretty much guaranteed to be virus-free (yes, contrary to what your aunt says, Macs *can* get viruses). It also provides [...]
The other day, Adam (one of Cantina’s founding fathers) sent out an email recommending that we check out RVM if we’re dealing with multiple versions of Ruby. Although I primarily use one version of Ruby (old faithful, 1.8.7), I use multiple versions of Rails – you know, since I love Rails 3 but am still [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
