tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195462581300370092009-09-11T10:12:25.008-07:00News and insights from one of the industry's smartest group of RIA engineers and entrepreneurs: Nth Penguin, LLC.Ryan Gahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07296413923778231728noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-519546258130037009.post-52985692842071623882008-10-07T22:31:00.001-07:002008-10-07T22:44:21.323-07:00

We're seeing a lot of downloads of our current WW.DataServices version. Those people are enjoying a tool that automatically builds their back ends for them, including a SOAP Web Service layer. That's just the beginning though. This upcoming release (soon, I promise), has much more. In this post I just want to briefly describe the Query API, which is a series of new web methods in the

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Dice.com, ZyQuest, Local Universities, LinkedIn and Social NetworksWhat would a consulting business be without staff, and quick ramp up times to boot? When we were suddenly faced with needing to expand our capacity from 3 people to 7, we tried Dice.com (which got us nowhere) and our good friends at ZyQuest. We needed people that were very hard to find. ZyQuest delivered. John Moss (you can't have

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Browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and ChromeWe're a web-application development firm, so we have to stay up on the latest browser challenges. That being said, we could fill many, many, MANY more blog posts about reasons for and against different browsers. Or you could just Google for this info. If you're not in the web-app business, just pick one and stick with it. Pick the one that

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EFax & VocalocityWe did manage to avoid a fax machine, sort of. Instead, we setup a multi-purpose scanner/fax/printer and EFax. The scanner software from HP allows us to scan direct to a PC hard drive over the network. We can then 'fax' that to anywhere, and receive faxes to our inbox to avoid printing them out. We only use it for signatures.Vocalocity is still a new endeavor for us – when they

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Collaborating without Microsoft Office: GoToMeeting, OpenOffice, Google Apps and MS Office 2007 (okay, you're not really getting away)Sharing information and communicating down the long-hallway posed a significant challenge. It could have been very expensive – except that as a startup we drink the Fruity Frugalistic Kool-Aid™ every day.GoToMeeting – our choice for sharing screens and

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(Org-Change alert: Part 2 became big enough that I'm breaking it into Parts 2a thru 2e, but I'll release them daily.) For the last 4 years, we've been focusing on widgets, mashups, AJAX and a revolutionary way to bring all of this to market. When we started 15 months ago, it was important to be Agile, to use tools that give us experience in our industry and to focus on the goal. While many

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Nth Penguin started in June of 2007, just three people setting out to consult in the world of Rich Internet Applications. We needed software to handle accounting & payroll. We needed an inexpensive way to visually communicate with our clients (we're in Wisconsin, they're on the coasts). We needed phones. We needed a fax machine. We needed shared file systems to collaborate. Aye-aye-ai! Not

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As a startup software company, there are few milestones more important than releasing your first product. It takes a lot of hard work to get to that point, and I don't just mean the time spent writing the code (although that is a lot of hard work as well). What I'm talking about is the time spent fighting tooth and nail to be able to have the time to spend to write the code. This holds most true

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Here at Nth Penguin we are very excited to be introducing our new product suite, called WebWidgetry™. So what exactly is it? WebWidgetry is a Web2.0 platform designed to ease development of both full scale Rich Internet Applications as well as dynamic one-off mashups that meet your many evolving business needs. It is a complete ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool that builds your entire Web

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