Blazing Cloud creates innovative mobile products to clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. At the core of our success is a continuous appetite for becoming experts at new techniques and technologies, paired with our willingness to pay it forward. Over the past year, our classes and events were the main outlet for sharing [...]
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orientationchange and resize events on the iPhone
May 8, 2012 – 6:51 am
Changing the orientation of your mobile device triggers a resize event. Here’s a very simple page showing that both orientationchange and resize events are triggered when you change the orientation of your mobile device. I used the following viewport meta tag in my html because of the iPhone Safari viewport scaling bug: <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0″> [...]
About.me for iOS: 50k downloads in 3 days
May 7, 2012 – 3:44 pm
We are very pleased about the buzz around the release of AOL’s new about.me iPhone app. Blazing Cloud engineers worked collaboratively with the sumptuous designs of Aaron Martin and the fabulous David Brock of the about.me server team within the media giant. Founder Tony Conrad tweeted that there were 50k downloads in the first 3 [...]
REPL Mocks in Rspec 2.9
April 14, 2012 – 2:06 pm
REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) is a great way to learn. Sarah Allen has a great post on REPL and rspec. Sarah’s Post on REPL Rspec In Rspec 2.9 there is a nice way to get the standalone way working $ irb 1.9.2p290 :001 > require ‘rspec/mocks/standalone’ 1.9.2p290 :002 > Time.stub(:now) {1} 1.9.2p290 :003 > Time.now => 1
Installing RSpec and Sinatra with Rake
April 4, 2012 – 8:54 pm
Installing Rspec into Sinatra with Rake This will give you a friendly ‘rails-like’ interface to running your automation tests. Sinatra doesn’t come with any test harness by default and so you’ll find yourself needing to integrate something. As a bonus I include a way to gain access to an instance of your sinatra module while [...]
looking for great developers (mobile & web)
April 3, 2012 – 3:42 pm
Blazing Cloud isn’t your typical startup or consulting agency. We’re a bunch of startup people who work together to deliver products for hire, creating a structure to give us freedom to pursue our own entrepreneurial ideas or other life plans. I’ve been intentionally slow to grow the company over the past year, as we settled [...]
Pivotal Labs acquired by EMC
March 27, 2012 – 9:01 am
Last week EMC acquired Pivotal Labs. Pivotal Labs anticipates accelerated growth, which, along with the EMC relationship, will position them well for going after even bigger enterprise customers. While they still plan to work with startups, an interview with Pivotal’s Eduard Hiatt highlights the opportunity presented by the acquisition to “spread our message faster.” The [...]
many heroku apps? try –remote
March 26, 2012 – 2:51 pm
I love how I can use the ‘–remote’ flag with heroku gem to tell heroku to use the application that is refereed to by my git remote name ‘production’ This way i don’t have to remember the name of the app all the time for every project and i can easily work with heroku the [...]
Getting Started With Google Closure in Sinatra
March 8, 2012 – 3:32 pm
Recently, we’ve been experimenting with Google Closure which includes both a Javascript library and a compiler to optimize your Javascript. Oddly, the getting started tutorial doesn’t include how to setup a project with Closure. I also ran into some issues with the compiler using advanced optimizations with very standard Javascript code. So, how can you avoid all [...]
Getting Started with Jasmine and Rails 3.2
March 3, 2012 – 9:55 am
tldr; check out the git repo Some good folks have been putting together gems that really help getting started with Javascript testing in Rails, which became somewhat more challenging with the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline. I decided to dig through some of this and get up to speed with a fresh install of Rails 3.2.2 [...]