Posts Tagged ‘Apps’

When I talk to business and IT stakeholders in financial services, publishing, healthcare, media, high tech and retail, I find they face common challenges planning and delivering a compelling connected experience for their customers. At Cantina, we’ve found the key to the connected experience is providing the right [...]

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 [...]

The HTML5 standard introduces many new capabilities including built-in support for audio and video playback, drawing with the canvas element, and support for offline web applications. HTML5 also includes new semantic elements to help create more meaningful markup and removes many presentational elements. But HTML5 has come to [...]

If you haven’t seen it, check out Adobe Shadow. It’s a desktop-to-device mirroring tool with a twist (or two). You run the Shadow helper application on your system, install an extension in Chrome, and an app on your device (iOS or Android). Once you pair your browser with [...]

(Editor: Every so often our consultants have an in-depth email conversation between themselves on topics of emerging technology. These conversations are often informative and entertaining, so I’ve been tidying them up and posting them to our blog. This session focuses on the problems (or are they?) with Android [...]

(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 [...]

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.

Cantina has published its newest white paper, the Responsive Design Guide – A Human Response to Modern Technology. Responsively designed pages display content optimized to the aspect ratio of the browser window. Narrow windows might display a single column, suitable for a smartphone; wider windows would display full-sized images [...]