tinyHippos is now part of Research In Motion (RIM)

Today, we are thrilled to announce that tinyHippos Inc. has been acquired by Research In Motion (RIM). We are extremely excited about our future at RIM and continuing to grow and support Ripple. This is a great step towards our goal of providing a cross-platform mobile application development and testing tool to developers worldwide.  Specifically, we [...]

PhoneGap Geo Demo App in Ripple

We finally have our first of many demo videos! For this first introduction demo we elected to show the PhoneGap training application showing off how we manage Geo Location enabled mobile applications. Rather then talk about it here, I’ll just let the video do the talking :-) If you’d like to take The Ripple Mobile [...]

Welcome Mark J. McArdle, CEO

Over the past year we have worked really hard and made some tremendous progress here at tinyHippos. We’ve built and launched our product into Beta, continue to improve it and add features, hired 2 developers and moved into our new space here at the Tannery. However, to build a truly successful business, we realize that it [...]

Ripple 0.4.0 :: Sencha, JQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, WAC … Oh My!

As usual, when things go silent on this blog it means that great things are brewing here at tinyHippos. We have been working really hard to make Ripple much more stable, usable, and we added some really cool features. This release, in our humble opinion, brings Ripple into the mainstream. We now have full support [...]

Editorial: Are Mobile SDKs Becoming Obsolete?

There is a growing trend in today’s mobile space, some would call this trend frustrating, even infuriating. That trend is the abundance of mobile SDK’s (Software Development Kits) out there today, and it seems like every new platform and runtime provider is rushing to put out their own SDK. SDKs are great if you’re building native [...]

Ripple V0.3.0 Released

It’s been a month and a half since our last release but we’ve made it worth the wait. We have been working hard on implementing a number of new features, bug fixes and best of all new platform support!

The dorm room approach to running a startup

I had the privilege and pleasure of speaking to the new students at UW Velocity recently. I talked about “failing fast and often” as well as how we run things here at tinyHippos.  I focused on XP programming, TDD, and the importance of failing fast. After leaving this great group of students, I got to [...]

Ripple V0.2.4 – Released

We’ve been pretty quiet on this blog for the past couple of weeks but that’s because we’ve been really busy getting the latest release of Ripple ready. Today, we are happy to announce that we’ve released Version 0.2.4. You can see the full release log here! We’ve added support for more JIL APIs and have [...]

The Wholesale Application Community is looking for your input

The Wholesale Application Community is looking for our feedback! If you are a mobile developer, we would like to encourage you to take some time and provide your input through The Wholesale Application Community‘s developer survey. What is the Wholesale App….. WAC for short :-) you might ask? The definition on their site describes them [...]

Our bloat is growing – Please welcome Dale Hadwen!

We’re at it again! To say the past few weeks have been busy for us would be a grand understatement. We’ve already made the announcement about Gord joining our team. We are now pleased to announce that Dale Hadwen will also be joining us as our newest full time developer in August. Dale learned to use [...]

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