Please PaaS the Apps: A Crash Course in Platform as a Service
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 We’ve had success with tools like ec2onrails (no longer maintained) [...]
Read MoreDan & George Video: Programming as a Creative Process
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.
Read MoreAnnouncing the Emerging Business Tech meetup
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.
Read MoreMarket Trends Shape Cantina’s Mobile Service Offerings
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 [...]
Read MoreAutomated DNS for AWS instances using Route 53
Hosting applications on Amazon EC2 is a relatively painless process. Getting instances set up and ready to deploy applications to can literally take minutes. However, once your virtual infrastructure gets larger, you start to run into more complicated issues. One of those is the limit on the number of static IP addresses (called Elastic IP [...]
Read MoreAdding Value to the Client Development Team and Partner Relationship
Finding the Right Mobile Technology Skills Cantina’s focus on the multi-channel mobile experience gives us insight into the state of emerging and mobile technology skills in the marketplace, and they are hard to find. Overworked developers are finding it difficult to develop new competencies in responsive design best practices, languages such as iOS and Android, [...]
Read MoreWorking with Media Queries and Javascript in Ems
While developing a responsive site I came across a small problem; all of my media queries were triggering at a width exactly 1.14285714 times larger then expected. Javascript functions being triggered by those same breakpoints were being called at the expected width. After much math and hair-pulling I worked out that the breakpoints I wanted [...]
Read MoreIntroducing Alicia Sedlock, User Experience Consultant
After almost choosing to follow a career path in forensic science, Alicia realized that at the end of the day, building websites is way more fun and satisfying than writing lab reports. She wants to help make the web fun, exciting, and usable both for developers and users, embracing coding standards and pushing for the [...]
Read MoreIntroducing Nancy Decker, Technical Consultant
Nancy comes to Cantina as a graduate of St. Lawrence University with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics her studies included Javascript, HTML5, CSS and PHP. She mastered Drupal during a research project at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Nancy is currently focused on mobile app development, Ruby and Rails, responsive design [...]
Read MoreIntroducing Dmitri Serbarinov, Technical Consultant
Dmitri comes to Cantina as a graduate of Bridgewater State University as a Bachelor of Computer Science. An enthusiast of database systems and natural user interfaces, Dmitri cut his teeth on multitouch gesture-driven applications, with work featured at trade show booths of industry leaders country-wide. Applied a long burning passion for mechanical tinkering, DIY and [...]
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