Videos

Cantina held  one of their ConnectedForum events, this one focused on Responsive Web Design (RWD), at their offices in Newton Mass. on October 24, 2012. Video of the presentations is now available, and presented below. Responsive Web Design holds the promise of delivering a single website that adapts [...]

Cantina was a sponsor, exhibitor and Principal Consultant and Technical Architect George White was a panelist on the Brightcove PLAY 2012 session Approaching the Mobile Web with Responsive Design. The video of that session is now available here (low-impact registration required). Session Description Website visitors use a dizzying [...]

The growth of social networks, SaaS applications, mobile devices and more interactive interfaces has led to bigger storage, faster response times, more volatile traffic, and alternative data formats. NoSQL databases offer a world of alternatives for storing, querying and thinking about your data differently. This event takes a [...]

So what is GitHub exactly? Cantina’s coders use it extensively for code version control, but there is a distinctly social component to using GitHub as well. Cantina’s Director of Communicating Mitchel Ahern interviews Cantina Principle Consultant George White on whether or not GitHub is a useful tool, or [...]

Cantina recently hosted the “Native and HTML5-based mobile” event as part of the Emerging Business Tech meetup. It was a great event. Thank you to all who came out giving us a great crowd despite foul weather. We’ve posted some videos of the sessions in case you couldn’t [...]

Cantina recently hosted the “Native and HTML5-based mobile” event as part of the Emerging Business Tech meetup. It was a great event. Thank you to all who came out giving us a great crowd despite foul weather. We’ve posted some videos of the sessions in case you couldn’t [...]

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.

Matt Chisholm and Adam Stachelek: The Best Practices of Mobile Consulting.

Top Trends for 2012: APIs, Mobile, Fragmentation, Consumerization, P2P from Dan Barron and George White.

HTML5 is an umbrella definition for a loose collection of evolving standards: HTML5, SVG, CSS3 and Canvas/OpenGL. And although the definition is rather broad “HTML5″ is useful when describing this user interface (UI) for the next generation of the web, which is turning up in all sorts of devices including desktop web browsers, [...]

Dan Barron and George White talk about the end of Flash and where we’re going moving forward.

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.

Dan Barron and George White discuss developing graphic applications in a very small footprint.

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 [...]

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.