Topic: Library Review

Perusing my news feeds today, I came across an article entitled, Could Mobile Apps Be Evolutionary Dead End? by Steve Rubel of Ad Age Digital.  Steve posits that ‘Marketers May Find New Breed of Web Apps Preferable to Multiple Platform’.  The article goes on to discuss the fragmentation of [...]

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 [...]

As noted previously, working in-browser when creating an App Cloud app is hugely useful as turn-around time is faster and the development tools are much better. While creating our first app we also created a tool called the App Cloud Emulator which further supports in-browser development. Main features [...]

Earlier this month we attended the Brightcove App Cloud Developer Kitchen. We were grateful and excited for this opportunity to get hands-on with the platform (currently in private beta), kicked the tires and build an app. In this post I’ll relay our experiences with the platform and show [...]

We love music here at Cantina. We’ve got big speakers set up in our office just to keep the tunes going while we work. Recently we discovered Turntable.fm, an awesome social DJ service that lets everyone participate. So come in and join us in the Cantina room and [...]

Recently, Dan Adams and I had the opportunity to go learn about Brightcove’s new product called App Cloud at their Developer Kitchen. App Cloud is a set of tools that will allow you to build native mobile apps using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript along with their service.

Well, I hope so anyway. CoffeeScript is a language based on JavaScript with a simplified the syntax that more resembles languages like Ruby or Python. This make it more useful as a software engineering tool as well as making it much more fun to use. In addition, it [...]

The article below has been making the rounds in the blogosphere, but I wanted to post it here as it includes some very poignant lessons on making the decision to deploy native applications built for specific mobile platforms or a web-based application that is deployed across many platforms. [...]

Publishers continue to migrate from traditional media platforms to embrace digital publishing solutions. This poses significant new challenges for the many publishers who do not have the in-house expertise to follow, evaluate and develop for all the new technologies and formats now available. The increasing speed of changes [...]

Having finally jumped on the blogging bandwagon and seeing the business results, I am now considering becoming active on Twitter.  I find myself asking the questions everyone must contemplate at the start of a new social media engagement – how to tweet, what to tweet, when to tweet, [...]