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It’s Spring in Colonial Williamsburg

In celebration of the change of seasons, last week we rolled out a spring map for Colonial Williamsburg’s Tour the Town. The map features updated colors, blooming flowers, and other features highlighting the beautiful spring weather in Williamsburg.

You should check it out at http://tour.history.org.

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A Great Mobile Conference, plus Drupal

DrupalCon Denver is a Matryoshka doll. Ostensibly a Drupal conference, hidden inside you'll find several smaller conferences. We call them "tracks," but they really are full conferences. You could show up at DrupalCon, attend only one track, and get more than you get at most single-topic conferences for a fraction of the price. As co-chair for the Mobile track at DrupalCon along with Todd Nienkerk, I've been involved with making sure we have the best possible sessions focused on mobile within the wider conference.

DrupalCon Denver's Theme: Collaborative Publishing for Every Device

At current growth rates, mobile will be the most common way to use the web as early as 2013. Already, 1 in 5 mobile users don't own a computer. They access the web entirely on mobile devices, mostly phones. Mobile means a big change to how we use the web, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg. We’re just starting to realize a fully-networked world, where the web is accessed from any device.

July Boulder iOS Meetup Recap

This past Tuesday iOS developers from across the metroplex gathered at Google's new digs in Boulder. The night started with some brief announcements from meetup leader Justin Shacklette who informed us that his first iPad game Jab-a-Face has finally made it into the app store. Congrats Justin!

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June Boulder iOS Meetup Recap

The mobile world has been turned on it's head this year, and that doesn't exclude iOS developers. Over the past several years there have been options outside of XCode to develop native iPhone apps. Frameworks like Titanium and PhoneGap allow developers to sidestep learning Objective C and still build iOS applications.

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