DrawSomething Results
by Suzanne on May 17, 2012
Another Boulder Startup Week event enjoyed by all! Win, Lose or DrawSomething featured some budding artists, yummy cookies and great beer. Check out some of our favorite creations from the afternoon.
Bikini
Pee
Booty
Cowgirl
Madonna
Spinach
Titanic
Tebowing
Our favorite goes to…
Thong
And if you can guess what this is, you are smarter than we are…
We had a super time, thanks to everyone for coming out for the gaming festivities!
Why We Love Boulder Startup Week
by Suzanne on May 17, 2012
It’s Boulder Startup Week and the team at InspiringApps thrives on the energy that Boulder is infused with during these crazy days! We had the privilege to co-host an event with Ryan Angilly of Signal Genius last night and it was a huge success. Over 100 attendees stopped by to meet new people and share their success stories about moving to Boulder. We had visitors who had only been in Boulder for 2 hours and Boulderite veterans who have enjoyed this strong community for over 25 years.
It’s True, Boulder is for Startups
by Suzanne on May 16, 2012
What is Boulder? Boulder is for startups. That’s the message that AppliedTrust wants to share with this super fun infographic about all the great things Boulder has to offer.
With over 300 days of sunshine a year and 93,000 bicycles in Boulder we think it’s a pretty cool spot to be too and are honored to be listed as a notable company. Check out the infographic and remind yourself why you love it here so much, then get excited for all the amazing Boulder Startup Week events kicking off today!
Mobile Sales Enablement and the iPad—A Perfect Marriage
by Suzanne on May 9, 2012
Businesses today are faced with the challenge of providing innovative tools to their sales teams in an ever-transforming mobile world. Read “Mobile Sales Enablement and the iPad—A Perfect Marriage” an article recently published in iBusiness Magazine by Cole Sandau, Managing Director of The Optera Group, and begin to leverage the mobile environment with your sales team.
“The business world has changed remarkably over the past
ten years. World markets have converged, technology advances
push innovation and financial pressures change both
our short and long term outlooks on success. All of these
changes have transformed how we conduct business and
how customers expect us to interact with them. Simply, we
need to be more dynamic to keep up and stay ahead.”
Layout and Responsive Design with Twitter Bootstrap
by Miles Matthias on May 2, 2012
Some of you may have noticed some websites look great on any device. You visit a website on your desktop computer, enjoy using their services, and then leave your desk for the day. Later while you’re out moving around, you remember you need to update your account on your favorite website. You only have your phone with you, but you decide to give it a shot. Lucky enough, the website you enjoyed on your desktop has magically transformed into something that feels comfortable to use on your phone. All of the same features are there, along with the site’s look and feel. It’s an easy transition between devices, and since it’s the same site, you spend hardly any time at all figuring out how to update your account with your phone. (For an example, check out our website, InspiringApps.com on any device or just by resizing your browser window.)
Now you want that same easy device transition for your websites. Today I’ll talk about how to do just that. If you want to do everything by hand, you can do everything manually, but there is a great front-end framework that has everything you need built in: Twitter Bootstrap. If you need an introduction to Twitter Bootstrap, check out my introductory post, “First Impressions of Twitter Bootstrap.”
Design and Development Tutorials
by Suzanne on April 25, 2012
“The only stupid question is the one you don’t ask.”
I’ll be honest, I’m not sure who said that first but they were really on to something. The team at InspiringApps believes very strongly that one of the keys to our success is to continue learning and asking questions when we need some help. That’s also why our open concept office space works out so well for us.
We’ve compiled a list of online resources that our team finds useful when we have a question or two, we hope you find them helpful too.
Win, Lose or Draw Something—Boulder StartUp Week Event
by Suzanne on April 11, 2012
Boulder StartUp Week is gearing up and we’re adding to the fun. Join InspiringApps for “Win, Lose or Draw Something” and indulge in some friendly competition, frosty beers, and endless fun!
Who: Anyone who enjoys mobile word and/or draw gaming fun. Space is limited, please RSVP through Boulder StartUp Week’s Plancast so we can accommodate as many as possible.
Exploring Key Bindings in ExtJS
by Miles Matthias on April 2, 2012
ExtJS is a JavaScript library that aims to make writing modern, client-side web applications easy. It achieves this goal for a lot of parts, such as retrieving, manipulating and storing data, and creating complex user interfaces. However, there are some features that are very common to modern web applications that ExtJS has yet to simplify and provide documentation on. One of those areas I’ve discovered is with keyboard bindings.
In attempting to make web applications that behave more like desktop applications, allowing the user to use keyboard shortcuts is a vital feature. In one of our applications, we wanted to support key bindings, so I began with exploring other people’s experiences in this area. In declaring views in ExtJS, I expected that you could add some configuration to declare that the user can use a keyboard button when using this view. For instance:
Healthcare—Should It Go Mobile?
by Suzanne on March 28, 2012
For an industry that intensely relies on cutting edge technology to prevent disease and save lives, can it be said that they are, in some respects, behind the times? It’s an interesting dichotomy that you can be standing in the same office and experience the newest, most advanced ultra-sound machine at the same time as encountering shelves and shelves of 2-inch thick file folders on each patient that walks in the door. Does high-tech equal paperless? If it does, our healthcare system has some catching up to do.
When healthcare meets “healthtech”, there is an endless amount of things to consider. This post does not profess to cover the nitty gritty details but rather to get us thinking—how can the healthcare industry benefit from going digital? From doctor offices to hospitals to the ambulance careening down the street, could patients receive better care if mobile technologies were more widely embraced?
SQLite: The Little Database Engine That Could
by Brad on March 23, 2012
SQLite is fantastic! It doesn’t get as much attention in the popular press as server-side relational database engines like MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, and Postgres, but it is a dynamo. And there is a very good chance that you rely on it every day for more than you know. It claims to be the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world.
I was first introduced to SQLite on the desktop. It is pre-installed on OS X and was super handy when we were developing more desktop applications. Since it runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, we were able to use it to back our desktop applications on all three platforms. But desktop deployments don’t begin to cover the SQLite reach. SQLite is installed on all iOS and Android devices, as well as a wide variety of other mobile platforms. It was also (at least for a brief while) the persistent relational storage technology of choice for HTML5 browsers. It looks like the HTML5 specification is headed in a different direction now, but not before SQLite made it into Safari, Mobile Safari, and Chrome. I wouldn’t be surprised to find SQLite installed in my car or refrigerator either.
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