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News Item Devs produce nine new NFC apps at Boston hackathon – 2nd Place to Don Coleman Details By Paula Berger Email Paula Berger | September 27th, 2011 Forty-three developers produced nine prototype NFC applications at Isobar’s 48-hour hackathon in Boston, including systems for ordering drinks in busy bars and an innovative car parking app. Isobar’s Create 48 NFC hackathon CREATE 48: Devs raced the clock to develop new NFC apps in just 48 hours. Click to enlarge. How difficult…

News Item Chariot Solutions Sponsors Jenkins User Conference Details Jenkins Community Announces Inaugural User Conference for Jenkins Developers at JavaOne 2011 Free Jenkins User Conference (JUC) Brings Experts and Enthusiasts Together for an Invaluable Day of Learning and Networking SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – Sep 21, 2011) – Jenkins Community, the community of developers using the Jenkins CI open-source continuous integration (CI) server, today announced its inaugural Jenkins User Conference (JUC). The conference will be held on Sunday, October 2, 2011,…

News Item Chariot Named Finalist in PBJ’s Eighth Annual Employee Survey Details Philadelphia, PA — (September 15, 2011) – The Philadelphia Business Journal has named local software and mobile consulting company, Chariot Solutions on its annual list of ‘Best Places to Work’ in the Greater Philadelphia and Delaware Valley. Winners are selected according to scores given to the companies by their own employees. Ft. Washington-based Chariot Solutions provides IT consulting and software design services for modern web application development, system…

News Item Chariot Solutions hosts DevOps seminar on 10/18 Details CANCELLED Chariot Solutions will be hosting and sponsoring a DevOps seminar on October 18 at Penn State Great Valley. This day long event will feature speakers from PuppetLabs, Sonatype, Cloudbees and a panel discussion, with case studies of how DevOps is functioning at two Fortune 500 companies.

News Item Chariot Architects to speak at PhoneGap Day in Portland Details Kevin Griffin, Chariot Solutions architect, and Don Coleman, Chariot’s Director of Technology, will be speaking about NFC during PhoneGap Day, July 29th in Portland. Besides their talk on NFC, PhoneGap Day will feature demos, presentations and hacking. Grffin and Coleman will be showing the NFC Plugin for Phonegap which they wrote. This plugin provides access to Near Field Communication (NFC) functionality, allowing applications to read NDEF message in…

News Item Chariot Solutions Architects to speak at Android Alliance Meeting, 7/27 Details Near Field Communication (NFC) NFC was introduced in Android SDK 10, we’ll give you a whirlwind tour of NFC, what it can do and how it works. Kevin Griffin is a consultant and mobile technology chameleon at Chariot So and Don Coleman is the Director of Consulting at Chariot Solutions. A UX Love Letter to Engineering No one says it aloud, but let it ring true, I…

News Item Building Cross Platform Mobile Apps with Flash Builder Details July 20, 2011 – First meeting of the MobilePhilly User Group. Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 ships with the ability to author mobile applications that work on both iOS and Android, and can bring in Adobe’s historical mastery of creative content. In short, build Apps that run anywhere, and look beautiful doing it. Adobe Evangelist Terry Ryan will show off this technology, and talk about when this technology is most…

News Item Chariot Solutions’ CTO to speak at CamelOne Details Keynotes and Sessions from Noted Open Source Experts and End Users Mark Inaugural CamelOne Event FuseSource Brings Together Industry Pioneers and Professionals for the First Event Created Specifically for Enterprise Users of Open Source Integration and Messaging Solutions BEDFORD, Mass. – May xx, 2011 – FuseSource Corp., the experts in open source integration and messaging, today announced that marquee enterprises and open source experts will present at CamelOne, the first…

News Item PhillyInc: Tech Week: Something for everyone Details By Mike Armstrong, Philadelphia Inquirer It seems only natural to hold the first Philly Tech Week during the ongoing Philadelphia Science Festival. Technology and science seem like inseparable twins, after all. But let me disabuse you from thinking that organizers of Philly Tech Week, which starts Monday morning, were inspired by the two-week-long science celebration. No, the three founders of the two-year-old Technically Philly tech-news blog were thinking about beer –…

News Item Engine Yard Grows Partner Network with Introduction of Training Program Details Engine Yard, the leading Ruby on Rails development and deployment platform for the cloud, today announced the Engine Yard University Authorized Training Provider (ATP) Program, which makes it easier than ever for developers to build their expertise in Ruby on Rails and the cloud. This new program is an extension of the Engine Yard Partner Network, the largest Ruby on Rails partner program, with over 200 development…