Posted on January 21, 2011 by Pj Lowe
If you didn’t get a chance to swing by @chainsawsalon last night for the first KW Start-ups Recruitment and Information Session – you missed out! A big thanks to Ernst & Young and Communitech for sponsoring the event and supplying all the beer and all-you-can eat poutine buffet. Another Big thanks goes out to Redwoods Media for [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2011 by Pj Lowe
A big part of why the tinyHippos team is so successful is our love for community involvement. Whether it is contributing to open source projects, speaking at conference or just demoing our product Ripple, the team loves to give back and spread the word on multi-platform mobile development! Please join us to listen to our CTO, Dan Silivestru [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dan Silivestru
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 [...]
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Posted on September 15, 2010 by Gord Tanner
Dude Where’s my workflow? While working on large javascript projects at tinyHippos we would commonly end up with a rather complex bootstrapping process where we need to execute a large amount of initialization code in a specific order. Some of this code is asynchronous and some is synchronous. We would start out with a series of events [...]
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Posted on July 28, 2010 by Pj Lowe
A quick shout out to Vodafone to say thanks for recommending The Ripple Environment Emulator to your developers on your Developers Tool Page. Check us out! You can also spot us this month in the Vodafone Monthly Developer Newsletter. Thanks Guys. Also note that Vodafone has released six more countries across Europe including dates for their upcoming Developer Dev Days [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2010 by Pj Lowe
Yesterday the tinyHippos team had the pleasure to attend Communitech’s 2010 Tech Leadership Conference held at Bingemans in Kitchener. You might have had the chance to stop by our booth for a demo and free hippo chocolates, or catch Dan Silivestru on the air chatting with 570 news’ Gary Doyle. Communitech put on a great event [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2010 by Pj Lowe
A lot is going on at tinyHippos Inc. and excitement is in the air. We are busy with new releases, new logos, and new support. We are also starting to sign up for some great mobile conferences in the fall. Stay tuned to our blog and we will let you know when and where you will be able [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2010 by Brent Lintner
Lately we have been working diligently on getting the Ripple Community website up and running. A daunting task in itself, not to mention alongside launching our flagship product The Ripple Emulator into Beta! Our ideal goal was to find a solid and easy way to integrate a solution that could help save a lot of [...]
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Posted on May 17, 2010 by Pj Lowe
Yes another release for The Ripple Emulator has been published this morning. Some of the new features are: Updated the way widget gets encapsulated and CSS styles applied. (Should fix some widget display bugs). Fixed problem with JSON to ensure that internal version did not get overridden, by loaded widget. Fixed OpenURL for both JIL [...]
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Posted on May 10, 2010 by Pj Lowe
It’s the start of another eventful week at the tinyHippos headquarters. Here are some exciting news that we want to share with you: If you have already downloaded our flagship product The Ripple Emulator , you will automatically receive the new release V0.1.26. The team published the latest release last night. If you do not already have it: click here [...]
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