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2012/04/26 HTML5 Workshop with Nathaniel T. Schutta

Allin Kalinowski — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:09:42 +0000

Nothing but the finest – and our HTML5 and jQuery Workshop on April 18, 2012 was second to none in this respect. The visit of HTML5 and Ajax expert Nathaniel T. Schutta at our Canoo offices attracted huge interest, as the internationally renowned speaker brought with him the topics HTML5 and jQuery mobile. Meanwhile, by developing their own mobile application, course participants had the chance to see for themselves what both technologies have to offer. During the subsequent practice test on the smartphone, the app generated enormous enthusiasm across the board!

2012/04/23 Declarations of love and other phenomena at JAX 2012

Allin Kalinowski — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:18:31 +0000

At JAX 2012 people had the opportunity to witness Canoo together with HTML5 in all its facets. At the expo stand our experts closely scrutinized the new trend, drew comparisons with current technologies and clarified issues on the topic of multi-channel. In addition, far removed from the exhibition, our speakers also ensured attendees’ engrossment and enthusiasm. In their keynote speeches at the main conference, Gerrit Grunwald, Andres Almiray, Andreas Hölzl and Dierk König served visitors with a “full broadside”. The Canoo quartet won over the audience with exciting contributions on their favourite technologies. Our HTML5 Day sessions likewise met with huge interest.
We have already noted the date for W-JAX 2012 in our schedules. Have you too?

2012/04/18 NEW: Consulting and Training Courses from the House of Canoo

Allin Kalinowski — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:06:46 +0000

Canoo is making a bright and breezy start to spring and expanding its services to include valuable consulting and training courses. This gives you the chance to become acquainted with the latest technologies or to take a closer look at the current trends. From Groovy & Grails and Griffon to GWT, our experienced software engineers are at your disposal with tips and tricks.
The benefits are plain to see – the instructors include the internationally renowned speakers Dierk König and Andres Almiray. The content of each course is specifically oriented towards participants’ requirements. And snacks and lively discussions in the breaks nicely round off the workshop atmosphere.

Take advantage of our consulting and training offer and ensure that your next project is a success. The next dates have already been fixed. Take a look and see which slot suits you. We would be happy to answer your questions at services@canoo.com.

2012/02/03 Excellent Services: Mobile & Usability Engineering from Canoo!

Allin Kalinowski — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:00:13 +0000

Do you require support with the development of your mobile application or would you like to optimize your application’s user acceptance? In either case Canoo is your professional partner with many years’ experience in the areas of mobile engineering and usability engineering.
Together with our experienced mobile engineers, you will be able to lead your mobile project on the path to success, since we support you from conception, usability testing, right through to implementation.
Our usability engineers can help you detect software defects at an early stage, and even rectify them during development. This enables the rapid and cost-effective development of your application.

You too can benefit from our service expertise. Simply make an appointment with us for a non-binding consultation by email – or give us a call!

2012/01/18 Canoo mingles with the Rock Stars

Allin Kalinowski — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:00:46 +0000

The Duke is Java’s well known mascot. When he grabs his electric guitar, this figuratively signifies the award of the highly sought-after distinction of JavaOne Rock Star. Since 2005 Oracle has been bestowing this title, thus honouring speakers for their outstanding session content and speaking ability at JavaOne conferences.
With his session “Extending Java’s Reach with Groovy: Seven Scenarios” Dierk König won over the jury, and has likewise been gracing the JavaOne Rock Star Wall of Fame since 2011. Together with Andres Almiray, who received the award in 2010, he typifies Canoo’s goal-oriented and successful professional consulting.

Would you like to get to know our Groovy, Grails or Griffon experts in person? Then take the next opportunity at the GenevaJUG Birthday Party, which is sponsored by Canoo.

2011/12/09 Canoo @ Groovy & Grails Exchange 2011

Allin Kalinowski — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:04:39 +0000

Skills Matter’s 5th annual Groovy & Grails eXchange 2011 was a great success. Canoo’s Andres Almiray presented his talk “Getting Groovy on the web and desktop”. Since most of the presentations have been recorded, you can learn more about desktop … Continue reading →

2011/12/08 From now on Canoo RIA Suite is an English speaker!

Allin Kalinowski — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:39:57 +0000

Are you aiming to bring your application into the cloud? No problem with the Canoo RIA Suite! You can read more about it on our product website. By the way: our site is now available in English, thus enabling you … Continue reading →

2011/11/29 Be part of a world-wide event!

Allin Kalinowski — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:44:31 +0000

“Honing the craft together” is the topic of next Saturday, 3rd December, when Canoo is sponsoring the Swiss installment of the Global Day of Code Retreat. It’s being held in Lugano, which is easily reachable from Switzerland or Northern Italy, and will be facilitated by Canooie Hamlet D’Arcy.
You and other passionate software developers will spend the day practicing the craft of software development using the coderetreat format. The event is free, lunch is provided, and you’ll get a chance to practice your programming skills while taking part in an event that criss-crosses the globe. If you plan on coming, please be sure to register on the website. See you Saturday!

2011/11/08 “Share a Canooie” and profit from world-class experience today

Allin Kalinowski — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:40:26 +0000

Have you heard of “Share a Canooie” yet? It’s our new exclusive service, where a Canoo employee sits in and works at your office – free of charge and non-binding. Our developer is at your disposal for an entire day, analyzing the benefits of different solutions and technologies for your project together with you. You’ll be surprised by how much can be achieved in a single day, and it’s a simple way to get to know each other.

Could “Share a Canooie” be an option for you? Find out now by watching our short comic film.

2011/10/26 Webilea #6 at Canoo

Allin Kalinowski — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:30:43 +0000

The next webilea event will be on Wednesday 2nd October, 2011 starting 19:00 at Canoo in Basel. Take the opportunity to exchange experiences and find synergies. For further information have a look at the website of webilea. To join the event, please register here.

2011/10/18 Agile Enterprise Integration with Apache Camel

Allin Kalinowski — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:58:49 +0000

Enterprise Integration projects belong to some of the most complex projects in the IT world. Getting several existing applications working together in a reliable and efficient way requires choosing an integration middleware that not only fulfills the technical requirements, but that also promotes „agility“. Apache Camel is one of the Open Source projects that shines in this area, not only because of its rich set of technical features, but also because of its lightweight approach to Enterprise Integration.
You are interested in that topic? Here you can read the entire article by Alberto Mijares, a software engineer with more than ten years experience in IT business.

2011/09/20 Meet the future of Java!

Allin Kalinowski — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:57:45 +0000

JavaOne San Francisco returns to the Zone October 2 – 6. Expand your skills by visiting the world’s best conference for the Java community and meet two Java experts of Canoo. Andres Almiray, Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, belongs to the 24 featured speaker this year, which again emphasizes his excellent presentation skills as well as his expert knowledge. He will talk about “Painless Desktop Application Development: The Griffon Experience“.
Furthermore Dierk Koenig will present his talks “Extending Java’s Reach with Groovy: Seven Scenarios” and “Pro Groovy“. Don´t miss the two of them!

2011/07/04 Canoo goes movie!

Jessica Zöhner — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:13:43 +0000

The Oscar-winning director Xavier Koller is filming the story of the well-known Bern citizen named Dällebach Kari. For this exceptional movie the filmmakers needed a special website, which was designed for them by Canoo.
In order for quick and easy maintenance, we created a custom, lightweight content management system based on the WordPress platform. The site needed to be not only easy to maintain but also adaptable to the needs of the film crew and production team. To this end, we developed several custom Plug-ins for WordPress, allowing things such as the online editorial department to continuously upload live videos. There are other interactive features as well, for example each visitor can place his or her favorite joke on the site and other users can evaluate it.
That’s how a Website became a real Film portal. We are looking forward to seeing the movie! You can access the Film portal under the following link.

2011/06/16 Meet high potentials at Canoo!

Jessica Zöhner — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:36:55 +0000

We are happy to win two well-known experts for exclusive talks – Peter Ledbrook and Stephen Chin! Both of them are on the occasion of the Jazoon 2011 in Switzerland and they will visit us in Basel to talk about their special subjects.

We will be glad to see you at one of these Public Reading Groups

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 4 p.m.
Peter Ledbrook, VMWare, United Kingdom
„Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes”.

Friday, June 24, 2011, 4 p.m.
Stephen Chin, GXS, USA
„JavaFX 2.0 With Alternative Languages – Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage”.

The talks will be held in our office at Kirschgartenstrasse 5 in Basel. Afterwards at the reception there will be time to compare notes and to talk to the speakers.
Attendance is free. Please register via e-mail until June 21 or June 23 to susanne.batz@canoo.com. We are looking forward to seeing you!

Abstracts

Peter Ledbrook, VMWare, United Kingdom
A long-time Grails user, Peter is currently a committer to the project and officially Grails Advocate at SpringSource, a division of VMware. He is also co-author of Grails in Action with Glen Smith.

“Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes”

In this session Peter Ledbrook, core member of the Grails development team and a senior engineer at SpringSource, will demonstrate how the basics of Twitter can be built using Grails and JMS in only 40 minutes. A fast paced and code-driven presentation, Jeff will build a Twitter-like application from scratch using Grails and its rapid application development capability. By bringing together Spring, JMS and Java persistence techniques, Jeff will also provide advanced tips and techniques for constructing Grails applications that can be deployed on to the Java EE platform.

Attendees will learn:
• How to construct a basic Grails project with Spring-based domain objects
• How to incorporate messaging and persistence into your Grails application
• How to adapt basic configuration to suit the needs of you application
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Stephen Chin, GXS, USA
Open-Source Developer and Agile Executive, Stephen Chin is founder of numerous projects including WidgetFX and JFXtras. He has been working with Java desktop and enterprise technologies for over a decade, and has a passion for improving development technologies and process. Stephen’s interest in Java technologies has lead him to start a Java and JavaFX focused blog (http://steveonjava.wordpress.com/) and coauthor the Pro JavaFX Platform book together with Jim Weaver, Weiqi Gao, and Dean Iverson. Stephen is a regular speaker at Java User Groups and Conferences, a 2009 JavaOne Rock Star, and a Java Champion.

“JavaFX 2.0 With Alternative Languages – Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage”

JavaFX 2.0 is the next version of a revolutionary rich client platform for developing immersive desktop applications. One of the new features in JavaFX 2.0 is a set of pure Java APIs that can be used from any JVM language, opening up tremendous possibilities. This talk will demonstrate the future potential of using JavaFX 2.0 together with alternative languages including Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage.

2011/06/01 Summertime with CanooNet

Allin Kalinowski — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:00:01 +0000

With CanooNet, summer has already arrived: During the entire month of June, the CanooNet app is available for EUR 6.99! Before purchasing, you may test the app for free. Have a look at it in Apple’s App Store!

2011/05/10 Canoo@JAX

Timo Dunke — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:31:19 +0000

It was a successful JAX for Canoo: Both our Special Day and the talks were well-attended and the pechakucha presentations led a great number of people to our booth. A plenty of interesting talks took place on the booth. Therefore, … Continue reading →

2011/04/29 Do we meet at JAX?

Timo Dunke — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:22:52 +0000

Next week you can meet our experts at this year’s JAX in Mainz, Germany: Dierk Koenig will host the Rich Applications Day as well as he will have three talks: Pro Groovy – reiner Code , Presentation Model Pattern and Web or Desktop? Both, with Canoo RIA Suite. Java Champion Andres Almiray will talk about Groovy on the Web and Desktop. Both of them will be available at our booth for your questions. At our booth, they will also present exciting short Pecha Kuchas twice a day. Come and find out more about RIA, hottest technologies, our products and projects. We look forward to seeing you!

2011/04/13 Finding just got easier!

admin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:48:28 +0000

Already noticed? Our specialists in word processing, the Canoo LanguageTools, are now equipped with new APIs and an extended vocabulary.

The new Java API returns the analysis results as structured objects (instead of strings, as before). This facilitates the integration of the LanguageTools in your own software. No need to decompose the analysis results any longer – you can use them as is. For backwards compatibility, the new APIs provide methods for converting into the previous string output format.
Plus, we give you more words: The covered vocabulary was substantially extended and revised.

You don’t know our LanguageTools? The Canoo LanguageTools are software components for efficient word processing. Typically they are used within search engines, for text indexing, text mining, machine translation and many more applications. We provide our LanguageTools for three languages: English, German, and Italian.
You think this may be something for you? Feel free to contact us.

2011/03/21 Canoo supports Japan disaster relief

Timo Dunke — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:23:43 +0000

On countless occasions in recent decades, the nation of Japan has consistently been one of the leading and fastest providers of disaster relief to other nations in their times of difficulty. We humbly bear this in mind as the tragedy of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan unfolds before our eyes.

To assist the relief effort, Canoo will be providing financial support to Médecins sans Frontières. The thoughts of Canoo’s employees are with all of the victims of this terrible event.

2011/03/17 Springtime with CanooNet

Timo Dunke — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:24:36 +0000

With CanooNet, spring already awakens this March: Just for this month, the CanooNet App is available for EUR 5.99! Have a look into iTunes directly!