Curious Minds Over Matters

Using CORS and Ember-Data to point an Ember app to multiple backend deployments

At Curious Minds we have developers working from different offices doing backend and frontend work on the same projects, so we need a deployment scenario that allows developers to make local changes without fear of breaking things for everyone.

Seeding Relations in Ember Mirage with Factories

When we are working on an EmberJs project, for all but the most trivial applications, we like to mock API calls so we can develop the UI of our application independently of the back end.

Deploying Ember CLI Apps with the Lighting Pack

This is the first in a series on maintaining and deploying Ember.js SPA (single page apps). We have been using Ember.Js quite a bit over here at Curious Minds. In fact, it’s one of our very favorite front-end frameworks.

Extjs 5, MVC and MVVM

Extjs 5 beta is coming up soon and with it the guys from Sencha are providing us with the MVVM architectural model. I am going to cover the basics behind MVVM, the difference between MVC and MVVM, and lastly when is MVVM advised for usage.

Architect 3 – build settings don’t go through?

To elaborate: Today the build.xml file on one of my projects got corrupted. Result: The Project was stuck building in production mode thus I was not able to properly debug it.

Sencha Touch 2 – Dynamically Loading the Store of a List and Asking the Server for Data by Parameter

This example shows how to dynamically create and load a Store in order to query data by a parameter. We are going to define our View which will contain two components – a list and a button to trigger the store load.

Updating Lookup Fields From PHP – Force.com Toolkit for PHP

Utilizing a Force.com backend for your data can prove to be a very challenging project. Perhaps you are trying to minimize development costs, or you are trying to utilize the Force.com backend that you already have.

Passing Data from one View Controller to Another through Segues. Xcode fundamentals.

Every application uses data in one way or another. When you are writing an iOS native application there are two ways to transfer data that I find most straightforward and easy to use.

CIO Digest application prototype for iPad

Mobile application development is in full swing over here at Curious Minds Media labs. We’re getting really close to unveiling our newest addition to our Integrated Publishing Solution’s suite of services with a shiny new mobile application.