Using ETags (or the new declarative ETags) in Rails? Are you banging your head on the table over old HTML/CSS/JavaScript still showing even after you deploy? We are proud to release Ettu, a rubygem to smarten up your ETags and save your precious table from further abuse.

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I just replied to one of the responses to my iOS/Android market newsletter, and thought it was worth sharing, because it hooks into something I think more people should know about.

The question:

I wonder how consumer mindsets affect the expected polish of UI, related to how much they have spent on a device. For example, after you've determined that the demographic for your app... Continue reading »

Mobile is on the rise, and one of the early decisions in building a mobile app is which platform to go after, using which technology -- iOS or Android, native or translation layer (aka "HTML app").

Translation layers are a great option because of the promise of being able to target different platforms with a... Continue reading »

With Android reaching 75% of the global smartphone market, it's no wonder so many people are trying to get in on the action. Google has recently launched a new IDE called Android Studio which helps developers build their apps while adhering to many common best practices. Along with this new tool, Android’s boom in popularity has also produced a wealth of helpful... Continue reading »

Cloudspace doesn't often blog/tweet/unleash our social media skillz about Kickstarter campaigns, but we recently came across one that really tickles our pickle.

STEAM Carnival is a modern reimagining of a travelling carnival. Just with less of a focus on clowns getting pied in the face, and more of a focus on badass flame spitting robots. Brought to... Continue reading »

Last Thursday our Technical Director, Scott Sampson, had a Tech Talk focused on RVM and Vagrant.

This gave the guys a great review of some of our standard practices as well as a chance to ask some "Why?" questions that had maybe been kicking around their heads.

Being that Cloudspace is a company that works on multiple client projects at once, we have consistently run... Continue reading »

We recently worked with a client that wanted to improve the speed of their site's search functionality. At Cloudspace we know that one way to get truly fast searches is with Apache Solr. Solr does full text-searching that maintains its speed even with hundreds of thousands of records. There are other options, one of which... Continue reading »