Many years ago, a friend of mine told me that he wanted to go into R&D as a career. At the time, I was surprised to learn that you could actually make a career of R&D -- taking ideas and building them out to figure out if they're useful to lots of people. I mean, Bell Labs at it's peak was doing exactly... Continue reading »
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With HTML5, that's all you've got to do to preload a page. Hat tip to Conner over at keyboardy for pointing this out. It's like cheating on behalf of your users, to get them faster page loads. Of course, this is what "web accelerators" have done for years, so it's good of the W3C to add this... Continue reading »
Long time Cloudspace client, Rentwiki, is finally getting the kind of recognition they deserve! Antares Capital Corporation has announced they have closed a multimillion dollar investment deal with the social media rental startup. Congratulations! Months of blood, sweat, and tears have finally paid off! We expect a very exotic fruit basket.
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Continue reading »We admit it, Cloudspace made a mistake. We got pair programming wrong. We did it with the best of intentions, but our plan completely backfired. Let me explain...
We have been using versions of Agile Development at Cloudspace for most of our 13 year history — even before it had a formal name. However, we... Continue reading »
I wanted to build an application where I could log my comic book reading habits to replace the paper system I was using. I had been mulling the idea over and just talking about various aspects with people for a month or two. On the second time I started to talk to Corey about my idea, I asked him what he thought about which user... Continue reading »
I received the following question today from Rustin over at The Blog Frog, a cool community service for mommy bloggers:
Like MBL, we use external javascript that is referenced from the blog. If our site ever goes down, even for 2 minutes, browsers try to load the javascript and pause for 30 seconds. Publishers then get... Continue reading »
It's that time of year again! BarCampOrlando is back on April 3 in downtown Orlando, and Cloudspace is proud to be sponsoring again! Check out the video for details, and come out and join us!