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Noel Rappin to Speak at Windy City Rails Conference
(September 20, 2008)
Noel’s presentation iPhone Web Development Using Rails will cover the best ways to leverage Rails on the iPhone and help developers leverage Mobile Safari’s new paradigm for web browsing that utilizes the iPhone’s popular touch screen display along with new styles of interactions that include tap, pinch and zoom for bringing content into view. He will also be presenting a session on test driven development.
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Dietrich Kappe to Speak at AjaxWORLD West 2008
(October 20-22, 2008)
Saving Your Investment: Transforming J2EE Applications into Web 2.0 Using GWT
The pressure is on to keep pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. Learn to analyze the service profile of your application, and leverage GWT to save you time and money.
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Pathfinder's Dietrich Kappe and Brian Dillard to Speak at The Ajax Experience
(September 29 – October 1, 2008)
Dietrich’s presentation Saving Your Investment: Transforming J2EE Applications into Web 2.0 using GWT discusses the pressures of keeping pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. His presentation will cover how to stay competitive, control costs and reduce maintenance using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
Brian’s presentation Making Friends with the Browser: Ajax, Back Buttons and Bookmarks will focus on enabling bookmarks and the back button in Ajax applications. Much of his presentation will be based on his experience as the project lead on Really Simple History, a popular open-source Ajax history and bookmarking library.
Pathfinder Development Launches Beer Hunter Rich Internet Application for DestinationBeer.com
(Chicago, IL) Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, announces the successful development and launch of Destination Beer’s Beer Hunter Rich Internet Application. The Beer Hunter is a map-based beer finder where people can browse beers from specific regions or by styles or by specific attributes that they can set (e.g., bitterness, darkness, etc.).
“Pathfinder excels in team work and communication, you give them an idea and they run with it.” said Sydney Sugarek, e-Marketing Specialist at Andrews Distributing.
Using Flex and Ruby, Pathfinder developed the Beer Hunter to hook into the body of knowledge on Andrews’ Ruby on Rails site and directly interact with the site’s database. Initial data is loaded at the world view, and pertinent details are displayed when the user clicks on a region or style or beer. In addition, the data is filtered as the user drills down into the details. For example, click on a continent, and the data is filtered to show only the styles and beers available on that continent. Click on a country, and the information is filtered again but this time to the country level.
“Beer Hunter is a great blueprint for any company looking to do interactive product filtering based on geography and other attributes”, stated Pathfinder’s CEO, Bernhard Kappe. “It’s a lot of fun to use.”
The combination of Ruby and Flex allowed Pathfinder to design and develop this application in a little over a month. In addition, because our development process creates extendible software, Andrews will be able to build upon this concept for future features.
About Andrews Distributing Andrews Distributing is beer distribution company that services retailers throughout Texas with wholesale beer and adult beverages, including premium beers.
About Pathfinder Development
Pathfinder is a consulting firm specializing in software development and user experience design. Pathfinder delivers applications that are easy to use, providing clients with the technology to enable business breakthroughs and competitive advantage. Pathfinder’s clients range from early stage start-ups to Fortune 5 companies across a wide array of industries, including energy, healthcare, insurance, financial services, media and publishing. For more information contact Bernhard Kappe at 312-372-1058, email to info@pathf.com, or visit http://www.pathf.com.
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