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 [...]

Here it is, the spookiest night of the year and the prospect of another election day debacle is about as frightening a prospect as any. And why shouldn’t we be scared? What’s really changed in the past 8 years in regards to the process of voting? In 2000, the death of the chad pappy, the [...]

There’s been a bit of radio silence on our blog lately, and it’s for good reason!  We’ve been busy on several Rails and Grails-based projects lately which is why we’re very excited about the releases of both Rails 2.0.x and the first full 1.0 release of the Grails framework. 
The Grails release in particular is significant [...]

Greetings and salutations to all, and welcome to the very first blog post at Cantina.
First things are always first, and in the spirit of blogging as a new form of journalism (not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Journalism) let’s get the main questions that any reporter would ask out of the way:
Who
We’re a new boutique internet technology shop specializing in [...]