Does your current Web strategy include a smartphone accessible Web application? A couple of Dayspring-ers just demo’d a handly little application running on a Google-supplied Android phone. And good timing, as T-Mobile will be bringing out its second Android phone this summer.
But now T-Mobile is coming back with another attempt at an Android phone in [...]
Today I watched an interview from QCON London with two ThoughtWorks employees who are involved in designing large scalable and cooperative applications. The basis for the communication that they use was simple web protocols over the HTTP 1.1 transport layer.
Some of the things I took away from the interview include:
It is always a pleasure listening [...]
Highlights:
Re-vamped interface
Intelligent Matching
Salesforce Force.com Integration
Dayspring recently launched a site for MicroMentor, an organization whose new website is addressing the recession head-on. A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report1 shows that microenterprises (that is businesses with fewer than 5 employees) account for [...]
Overview of the Force.com multitenant architecture, given by Salesforce Chief Software Architect.
Without multi-tenancy
- Customers may not be on the same versions
- Lots of hardware, software versions
Multi-tenancy
- Data-focused platform for building data-focused applications.
- SF is expert at providing virtual database for each tenant.
SF
- Runs 10′s of thousands of [...]
So I’ve spent a couple days playing and getting the flex application to have deep linking.
First, what is “deep linking”? Normally with Flash apps that you see when you load the flash application it always starts in some state. Then as the state of the application is changed by clicking things, etc. the [...]
Have you ever seen funny characters showing on-screen?
Users copying from Word and pasting their curly quotes, em-dashes, and accented characters into your text fields?
There are a number of settings that need to be in place in order to guarantee that extended character set characters that get input [...]
Chi-Ming & I attended the Rackspace Roadshow on Thursday, April 17th. This was chance for Rackspace to present their technology roadmap for the next year or so. Rackspace’s main business is providing managed hosting. A client would specify a build of a server which they would build or purchase, configure and install [...]
Have you checked out the app engine?
http://code.google.com/appengine/
Google is providing web app hosting for Python based apps. There are a few limitations on what you can do (like no writing to disk, no relational database), but it’s free.
They say they hope to add support for more languages in the future, but I don’t expect to see [...]
One of our clients, TeamRankings, is getting some good press coverage. Check out the articles below to read about it and see some quotes from our client Tom Federico.
Stanford ‘geeks’ level betting field with science (Mercury News)
Computers project Patriots as XLII champions (USA Today)
San Francisco Web design company providing Web application development, custom software development,
database consulting, and Web design services to the SF Bay Area and the Silicon Valley.
And, introducing EEBA, envelope budget software for the Web, mobile Web and Android.
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