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Pathfinder Development Sponsors midVentures25
(11 March 2010)
Pathfinder Development sponsors midVentures25, midVentures25 is the first Chicago-based startup demo day & conference.
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Pathfinder Development Sponsors Day of Mobile in Chicago
(6 March 2010)
Pathfinder Development sponsors Day of Mobile 2010, an all day event for mobile developers and enthusiasts that will take place at IIT on March 6, 2010.
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Pathfinder’s Noel Rappin and John McCaffrey to present at Windy City Rails 2009
(12 September 2009)
Rappin and McCaffrey will present tips and guidelines on PDF generation and testing at the second Windy City Rails conference, to be held at the Chicago Westin River North.
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Pathfinder’s Michael Walkden to Lead Experiential Workshop at Agile 2009 Conference
(24-28 August 2009)
Walkden’s hands-on workshop entitled “The Agile Game: An Experiential Workshop” involves participants in the whole Agile experience—no technology required.
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Pathfinder’s Michael Walkden to Lead Workshop at the Chicago Agile Project Management Meetup Group
(04 August 2009)
Michael will be presenting the hands-on workshop he will recreate at Agile 2009 later this month.
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Pathfinder’s Noel Rappin to be guest speaker at ChicagoRuby.org meeting
(23 June 2009)
Rappin will discuss his recently-published multimedia e-book “Rails Test Prescriptions”, and explore how to develop tests for existing software applications at the June 23 meeting of ChicagoRuby.org.
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Pathfinder’s Alice Toth Participating in Chicago IxDA Panel Discussion on Agile Design
(10 June 2009)
Senior User Experience Designer Alice Toth will be among the experts discussing the interaction of User Experience Design and the Agile Development Process in the “UX & Agile, Together at Last” panel discussion at Chicago IxDA’s meeting on June 10, 2009.
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Noel Rappin to Speak at Windy City Rails Conference
(September 20, 2008)
Noel’s presentation iPhone Web Development Using Rails will cover the best ways to leverage Rails on the iPhone and help developers leverage Mobile Safari’s new paradigm for web browsing that utilizes the iPhone’s popular touch screen display along with new styles of interactions that include tap, pinch and zoom for bringing content into view. He will also be presenting a session on test driven development.
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Dietrich Kappe to Speak at AjaxWORLD West 2008
(20-22 October 2008)
Saving Your Investment: Transforming J2EE Applications into Web 2.0 Using GWT
The pressure is on to keep pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. Learn to analyze the service profile of your application, and leverage GWT to save you time and money.
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Pathfinder's Dietrich Kappe and Brian Dillard to Speak at The Ajax Experience
(September 29 – October 1, 2008)
Dietrich’s presentation Saving Your Investment: Transforming J2EE Applications into Web 2.0 using GWT discusses the pressures of keeping pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. His presentation will cover how to stay competitive, control costs and reduce maintenance using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
Brian’s presentation Making Friends with the Browser: Ajax, Back Buttons and Bookmarks will focus on enabling bookmarks and the back button in Ajax applications. Much of his presentation will be based on his experience as the project lead on Really Simple History, a popular open-source Ajax history and bookmarking library.
Pathfinder Names Noel Rappin Director of Ruby on Rails Practice
Chicago, IL (January 9, 2008) Pathfinder, a leading agile development and user experience design firm, has named Noel Rappin, noted software engineer and author of “Professional Ruby On Rails” (Wrox Press, 2008) as Director of its growing Ruby on Rails Practice. Rails is a full-stack web application development framework for developing rich, powerful applications in a fraction of the time required when using .Net or J2EE.
“Noel’s expertise and experience will be invaluable to our clients, allowing them to accelerate their time to market and lower costs by leveraging the Rails framework,” said Bernhard Kappe, Pathfinder’s Managing Director. “His leadership will be instrumental to the Pathfinder team as we continue to drive the design and development of Web 2.0 applications for our clients.”
“There is no doubt about the phenomenal benefits of Rails and we can literally say we have the guy who wrote the book,” commented Pathfinder’s Chief Technical Officer, Dietrich Kappe. “Noel’s knowledge and practical project experience will be a real benefit to our clients.”
Rappin earned a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing and holds a Phi Beta Kappa Key. Before joining Pathfinder, Noel led several Agile based projects at Motorola as a senior software engineer and technical lead. His previous publications include several technical articles and other books, including: “wxPython in Action” and “Jython Essentials”.
“I’m really looking forward to expanding the use of Rails in our client engagements and within the development community,” said Rappin. “Rails encourages Agile best practices and delvers web applications faster than ever before. It is really exciting to see results so quickly and to continually leverage the power of the Rails framework.”
Pathfinder designs and develops people-friendly, commercial grade software and web applications for enterprises and organizations that view software as a competitive advantage. Pathfinder’s approach integrates user experience design with agile development to improve software usability and accelerate development.
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