Chariot Solutions

The Philly Tech Startup Community

Chariot Solutions was once a start up, way back in 2002. The beginning and the first few years were a roller coaster ride. And even though, we are now at the ripe old age of 7, I like to think we continue to operate with the spirit of a start up. Because of our background, … Read More

Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2010 Annoucement

For our 2010 edition of Emerging Tech, we are happy to be sharing some of our time with our friends from Sonatype. At this year’s conference, Jason van Zyl, approached our team about working with the Maven or Apache groups to have a joint event. It was very nice to hear that speaker who travels … Read More

Social Media and the Technologist

Yesterday, Skip Shuda and Marilyn Moran, of Team and a Dream, stopped by our offices to discuss social media and what it means to Chariot’s team members. We reviewed some of the basics, but also discussed why a person in the technical field should care. After our meeting, they sat down for an interview with … Read More

iPhone and SSL

One of the problems I ran into while working on our iPhone app (see past post) is handling SSL connections. It works just fine with proper certificates, but we have several machines with self-signed SSL certificates. The normal NSURLConnection in the iPhone SDK just rejects connections to a server with a self-signed certificate, and there … Read More

Dan Allen Interview at JBoss Word – Seam update

JBoss World is winding down. It has been a good few days in Chicago. We have had the chance to catch up with some old friends and meet some new ones. Our next sit down is with Dan Allen, a good friend of Chariot’s and a JBoss developer who wrote Seam In Action. Also, check … Read More

Interview with Manik Surtani, Infinispan

Here is the next interview we conducted at JBoss World which featured Manik Surtani of Infinispan. If you watched the interview with Emmanuel, you heard that Manik’s talk was one he was highly anticipating. Manik is the lead at Infinispan and also for JBoss Cache. Here are the links Manik mentions in this video: http://www.infinispan.org … Read More

Video Interview: Emmanuel Bernard at JBoss World

As promised, here is the first of our interviews at JBoss World. Emmanuel Bernard was our first guest. The content is great, but our camera skills need some improving! Emmanuel Bernard, author Hibernate Search in Action Emmanuel’s blog is http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Emmanuel if you need more information about Hibernate.  Also, we have recorded a Chariot TechCast, episode … Read More

First evening at JBoss World

We had a very nice start to our time at JBoss World last night.  There was an opening party from 6-9 in the Partner Pavilion where the attendees mingled with the exhibitors. We were able to interview Emanuel Bernard and Manik Surtani.  I hope to upload those later today.  If not, they will be up … Read More