Ripple v 0.2.0 released

We have been heads down and working hard on adding many new features to Ripple over the past 3 weeks. We are happy to announce that we have added support for several JIL Widget APIs to get Ripple closer to Silver compliance support. Those include: AudioPlayer support (you can now test your audio enabled widgets) [...]

Please welcome the newest tinyHippo – Gord Tanner

It is my great pleasure to welcome our newest employee: Gord Tanner. Gord brings over 6 years of experience in software development to tinyHippos, but his love affair with computers and technology goes back way longer then that. He put up his fist BBS back in 1994 and has been addicted to making computers do awesome things [...]

Closure in JavaScript – with examples

Here at tinyHippos, we use JavaScript extensively. As a matter of fact it is our core development language right now. So I’m often surprised to see how many developers don’t understand how closure works. There are some great resources out there that I recommend every JavaScript developer read / watch and I’ll post them all [...]

Ripple – V 0.1.186 released

Ripple has been silent since our latest release on June 7th. Believe me when I say that for us that felt like an eternity! We’ve been hard at work adding some features and fixing bugs. We even managed to take a bit of time off :-) I’m happy to announce that Version 0.1.186 is has [...]

Mobile Widgets – Dynamic Layout Example

This is the third post in our on-going series on Mobile Widget development. The first two can be found here: Mobile Widgets – Persistence Cross-Platform Wrapper Mobile Widgets – a primer Over the past few weeks we’ve seen many developers gravitate towards using Position: fixed in their CSS to pin their widget’s header and footer [...]

Announcing The Ripple Emulator website!

Today we are happy to announce that The Ripple Emulator has it’s very own website. The Ripple Emulator website contains all of the information you’ll need to get started. We invite you to come and check it out here: http://ripple.tinyhippos.com Over the next couple of days we will also enable the community section of the [...]

Beta: A walk through The Ripple Emulator’s features

The Ripple Emulator Goes Beta Update: For a thorough tour of Ripple in it’s latest form, check out the Ripple Docs here. Today is the day we launch the Beta version of The Ripple Emulator, a browser based mobile emulator. So we thought we’d explain the current feature set to help you get started and [...]

Ripple Emulator: Alpha Release

We are happy to announce that we have released the Alpha version of our The Ripple Emulator. You can find the Alpha version here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/geelfhphabnejjhdalkjhgipohgpdnoc The Ripple Emulator is built as a Google Chrome extension, you will need to download Google Chrome and install it if you haven’t already. The download page for the Ripple [...]

Mobile Widgets – Persistence Cross-Platform Wrapper

This is the second post in our series on building Mobile Widgets. The first post was an introduction to Mobile Widgets. Mobile Widgets – a primer In this post we will build a persistence library that works across multiple platforms and abstracts away the differences of those different platforms into a common set of methods. [...]

Waterloo Region Web Design & Technology meetup: a great event!

Last night we had the pleasure and privilege of presenting at the Waterloo Region Web Design & Technology meetup last night right here in Waterloo, ON at the Barley Works. We had a great time showing off our soon-to-be-released product and got and overwhelmingly positive response. These are some of the tweets about our presentation [...]

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