Archive for the ‘Web Applications’ Category
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: android, t-mobile
Posted in Accessibility, Android Development, Easy Envelope Budget Aid, Mobile, Products, Web Applications, Web Strategy | 5 Comments »
Friday, June 19th, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: REST, Web Based Interaction
Posted in Java, PHP, Technology, Web Applications | No Comments »
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: architecture, database, force.com, salesforce, salesforce.com
Posted in Solutions, Technology, Web Applications | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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 [...]
Tags: browser, deep linking, flash, flex
Posted in Browsers, Flash / Flex / ActionScript, Technology, Usability, User-Centered Design, Web Applications | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

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 [...]
Tags: funny characters, Hibernate, Java, jdbc, mysql, utf-8
Posted in Databases, Java, Technology, Web Applications | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
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 [...]
Tags: amazon ec2, cloud, mosso, rackspace
Posted in Solutions, Web Applications, Website Hosting | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
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 [...]
Tags: google app engine
Posted in Solutions, Technology, Web Applications, Website Hosting | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
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)
Tags: press coverage, teamrankings
Posted in Dayspring Announcements, Solutions, Web Applications | No Comments »