Payment Processing with Braintree

Payment Processing with Braintree

You’ve built the web application of the century, and the users have rightly flooded to it. Cat pictures for everyone!
But alas, while your users indulge in cat-induced bliss, the cold hard reality of server costs cannot help but harsh your mellow. What is to be done?
Maybe, you could get the users to… pay for access to your incredible web application in all its multivarious splendour?

Security and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Security and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Are you thinking about the Internet of Things (IoT)? Maybe you should be — a whole new class of devices with previously unthought of capabilities is beginning to appear on the market. Corporate juggernauts and lean startups can both play the game, with home and...
Native Apps vs. Web Apps

Native Apps vs. Web Apps

Advantages, Disadvantages & Common Misconceptions Addressed A decade ago, blogging was still on the rise, Facebook was barely a year old, and the vast majority of new software development projects focused on their traditional target, the desktop computer. Half a...
FileReader Chunking and Base64 DataURLs

FileReader Chunking and Base64 DataURLs

In a hurry? You can now use our HUp jquery plugin to read files in a chunked fashion as data URLs. Hooray! Got a minute or two? Let’s talk about file read chunking, data URLs and base 64. If you’ve been looking forward to the previously promised discussion...