Ripple v0.5.0 Released: Announcing BlackBerry WebWorks Support

It has only been a month since we announced the acquisition of tinyHippos by RIM. But what a great month it has been! We’ve had a great time getting comfortable in our new environment and have had the pleasure of working with some really awesome people here. Today, we are very pleased to announce that [...]

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 [...]

Awesome Turnout!

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 [...]

Ripple Emulator Documentation, At Long Last!

There are only so many hours in the day but finally we have collected all the Ripple documentation and centralized it. If you have been checking the community website recently you may have already noticed the Docs tab, which linked to an initial release. Since then we have been adding on more and more. What [...]

Redcar: An Open Source, Extensible and Cross Platform Text Editor.

For the past months I have been following the development of a very interesting text editor called Redcar. Redcar was created by Daniel Lucraft and since then it has started to grow with community contributors, features and plugins. Redcar currently: Supports TextMate bundles, snippets and themes. Has a low barrier of entry (and even lower…) for plugin [...]

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 [...]

Compressing Javascript Code with Google Closure Compiler and Ruby

With Google releasing their Closure tools to the public, the Closure Compiler and its RESTful API provides an accessible way to compile and minify Javascript code. We’ve been using the RESTful API as part of our automated deployment process and have found it to work very well for us. The Wiki example to call the web service [...]

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