The Android platform provides a great way to deliver rich and highly functional native mobile applications to an ever growing number of smartphone and tablet devices, and soon even your TV. With this platform comes a rich set of development tools, primarily based around the Eclipse development environment, but which also includes command line tools [...]

Well, the stats are in, and it’s official. The World Cup – considered by many to be the largest, most watched sporting event in the world – did in fact post the largest online video viewing numbers of all time as measured by a whole host of outlets and measurement services. Big deal, right? It’s [...]

I love Ruby on Rails.  There are few things in life that bring me more joy than opening up Textmate and coding a Rails web app.   That being said, my infatuation has been with Rails 2, and I’ve been itching to get working with Rails 3 – especially with the prospect of a release [...]

Lately I’ve been working on a multi-tenant web app that contains a good-size number of domain objects. Within these objects, there exists a sub-set belonging to a root object, and the need arose to be able to quickly duplicate / populate the data within these objects between different instances of the app. It has become [...]

Friendster… MySpace… Facebook?
In what could be one of this summer’s only worthy entertainment highlights (Inception aside), it looks as if Boss Google may be ordering up a hit on the family Zuckerberg. Under the working title “Google Me” (ala “Analyze This”), the story also features Facebook’s agrarian darling Zynga, who has left the family farm [...]