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 [...]

Chris Adamson has posted a great summary of his presentation from the Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference where he dives into the possibilities and perils of implementing in-app purchases in your iPhone applications.  These follow up nicely on his original post on the topic (An In-App Purchase Brain Dump).
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Much of the media buzz about iPhone OS 4.0 has focused on multitasking, home screen customizations and iAds.  While these changes are significant, at Cantina we’ve been wondering what other new features might emerge in 4.0 (and beyond) – and what new classes of applications they might enable.
While the full list of iPhone OS 4.0 [...]

Cantina is actively looking for senior level Technical Architects and Project/Program Managers with technical consulting experience. Please have anyone that is interested from your networks send us a resume at jobs@cantinaconsulting.com. Candidates should based in the greater Boston area. Thank you!

As I’ve mentioned before, we here at Cantina are big fans of Groovy and Grails, and we are disappointed that the language is not used more widely. To do our part to spread joy that is Groovy, we’ve started a group on Meetup.com for Boston-based users (start local!). Check us out here: http://www.meetup.com/Grails-Boston. Our focus [...]

The changing dynamics of the web has been something we’ve talked a lot about lately.   The shift toward real time services has impacted the way companies are thinking about the web.  Twitter is currently leading the charge in the real time information and many people think it’s going to become the real time search engine [...]

One of the founders of Woofoo just wrote a terrific article on what it takes to build a web application called “Web App Autopsy“.  They were lucky enough to get some great information from three other firms, Blinksale, Feedburner and RegOnline.  I think the charts and information they put together are great, but if you [...]

take a look at our potential logos as they unfold. let us know what you think, and feel free to submit comments or rate the submissions.

Here comes a cat out of a bag – we’re in the process of building out our brand. Every growing company faces this challenge at some point, and so Cantina finds itself in the thick of it.

As purveyors of tech that, at least in theory, increases social interaction and the power of community, we’ve decided [...]