Everyone thinks that Apple’s position is unassailable. But browser makers and the W3C have an opportunity to make a dent.
There are always discussions about mobile web vs translation layer (Appcelerator, PhoneGap) vs native apps. The reasons for staying away from mobile apps used to revolve around performance issues, as well as access to the phone’s subsystems. Used to.
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In an earlier post, I wrote about how I had the realization that I am not a Computer Scientist.
Which got me thinking about scientists…
And within the confines of my own twisted little mind this idea began to form: Is the Scientific Method itself a case for TDD? Some quick googling proved I’m not the first person to draw these parallels…
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I recently attended the Ancient City Ruby Conference in St. Augustine, FL with my fellow Cloudspace engineers Jeremiah, Josh and Michael. Before we all left, our CEO, Todd, tasked us with preparing blog posts and creating training sessions based on what we were about to learn.
Naturally, I kept my ears and mind open during the conference to catch anything that stood out to... Continue reading »
John Gruber has a great writeup about Chris Dixon’s comments that the mobile web is dying in favor of apps, and I agree with his overall conclusion: it’s no big deal.
Chris correctly points out that Apple has rejected whole classes of applications. That doesn’t stop the apps from being created, and it doesn’t stop users from accessing anything. It just means there’s another... Continue reading »
This post is part of an ongoing series which will attempt to demonstrate and explain the Crunchinator. Each post will describe a different part of the technology behind the Crunchinator, and hopefully each will be useful as a stand-alone tutorial.
While developing the Crunchinator’s frontend separately from its backend allowed for our developers to...
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There has been a lot of bragging going on at Cloudspace lately. We are like proud momma bears. We created the Crunchinator and we think it’s pretty cool.
The Crunchinator is a free and open source tool to interactively slice, filter and research Crunchbase data. While the data on Crunchbase is fantastic, it is... Continue reading »