Love for Community involvement

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

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Dan Silivestru

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 [...]

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PhoneGap + Ripple – The Best is Yet to Come

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Gord Tanner

I am a big lover of jazz and this past weekend the KW Symphony Orchestra performed a tribute to Frank Sinatra. As I watched the orchestra play I kept looking over at the bass section. The three of them would spend a large portion of the song sitting idle, only to ready themselves once or [...]

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Editorial: Are Mobile SDKs Becoming Obsolete?

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Dan Silivestru

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 [...]

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The Wholesale Application Community is looking for your input

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Dan Silivestru

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 [...]

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Mobile Widgets – Dynamic Layout Example

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Dan Silivestru

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 [...]

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Perfecto Mobile – A Perfect Match!

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Pj Lowe

We have had the pleasure of working with Perfecto Mobile as developers.  We feel that they are the perfect developer’s tool to use alongside the Ripple Emulator.  Where the Ripple Emulator allows the developers a look at what is under the hood of their widgets, Perfecto Mobile allows the developer to test their widgets on real [...]

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Beta: A walk through The Ripple Emulator’s features

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Dan Silivestru

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 [...]

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Mobile Widgets – Persistence Cross-Platform Wrapper

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Dan Silivestru

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. [...]

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Announcing The Ripple Emulator beta launch – 20 days to go

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Pj Lowe

Wondering what the tinyHippos have been up to for the past few months??  Well – if you haven’t had the pleasure of attending a local event in the Kitchener/Waterloo region where you would have been captivated by our demo…  then you are in for a treat!  The boys are finally ready to come out of [...]

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