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 [...]
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Need private git repositories for your personal projects but don’t want to pony up the lunch money for a github personal account? (So I’m cheap, okay?) git combined with Dropbox creates personal repos that can be synced to multiple machines, host any number of repositories, give you the [...]
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A large milestone in the Grails lifecycle occurred several weeks ago with the release of version 2.0.0. Grails has very frequent releases; milestones, release candidates, major/minor versions, etc, which is wonderful as the framework grows. The pain point comes in when working on projects that are all using [...]
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Cantina folks shared their favorite tools from post-it notes to Emacs. Tried and true to bleeding edge, here are some of our favorite things. Editors Emacs is ever popular if your fingers can bend in strange and interesting ways. vi (or vim) keeps the flame war with Emacs [...]
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How we interact with the web is changing on a daily basis. Mobile browsing usage is increasing dramatically and will someday overtake non-mobile browsing as the primary communication between you and your customers. This is one reason why responsive design is becoming a best practice in web app [...]
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A while back I had the opportunity to use RightScale during the development of a system that processed very large amounts of web analytics data. RightScale is a layer on top of Amazon AWS that, among other things, allows you to define roles for each type of server [...]
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