Cloudspace is officially a Rails Contributor! We owe it all to our supremely awesome employees, Josh and Justin, pictured below, looking dapper as ever.
Justin and Josh.
Josh and Justin ran into a consistent issue with Russian doll caching. When testing caching on the development environment, it basically prevented changes to the view from showing up. A fringe... Continue reading »
API driven applications generally tend to follow a similar pattern: a request is made, the response is received, and then the UI is updated appropriately. Traditionally a loading indicator is shown, the web request is made, and when the response comes back a block of code is run that updates local data and the UI. This pattern works, but often breaks organization as you've suddenly... Continue reading »
For your convenience, here's a wrap-up post on common mistakes made when building analytics platforms.
Tilt-shift photography is a fun way to take photos. It allows you to show a beautifully understated type of emphasis or create a whimsical miniaturization effect. Of course, not everyone has cameras and lenses capable of taking these photos directly, so today we're introducing Tilt Shifted for iOS.
Tilt Shifted is... Continue reading »
When Google Reader was discontinued, sadly we didn’t just lose it, we lost many Google Reader backed iOS RSS readers as well. Google Reader was one of (if not the) most widely used RSS feed manager and powered countless other sites and applications. To fill the hole left in our browsers, apps, and hearts, today we are proud to present Easy... Continue reading »
When we first started iOS development here at Cloudspace we found managing libraries in Objective-C to be extremely inconvenient. Organizing and maintaining the application code, along with all the shared libraries we've written, and a bunch of third party code (not to mention all their dependencies) wound up consuming quite a bit of time. Since we frequently work with Ruby, we've been spoiled with
Setting up integration testing is complex. We have several technologies that we want to work together to test our application and they don't always cooperate. Getting these technologies working requires a good mixture of Ops and Development knowledge. There is also a lot of very important information spread out across several gems that you really only find in bug threads after hours of hunting. Fortunately... Continue reading »