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TwitrPix on Mashable’s Top 10 Twitter Photo Sharing Services

// November 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Development, TwitrPix

Today marks a very important milestone since TwitrPix was quietly released into the wild earlier this year. While we have been extremely busy adding new features and functionality not present in competing services, we just saw a Facebook post that really surprised us. A recent vote by the readers of Mashable, the internet’s most respected voice in Web 2.0 & Social Media news, has placed TwitrPix on a very special list — Top 10 Twitter Photo Sharing Services.

What makes this list really amazing is that Mashable’s readers have voted it above other sites which are more popular. Although we did come in 10th place, we here at Cando can’t really complain. We are definitely in some very good company and appreciate all of the support Mashable’s readers and especially our TwitrPix users have been.

To check out the list, click here.

Aptana Studio (IDE) – A First Look

// June 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Development

Here at Cando, we consider ourselves old school for the most part. We don’t use programs like Dreamweaver or any HTML applications like it to develop web apps. While they have their place, we code everything by hand — every line of code in CSS, HTML, PHP, etc. is done solely in our favorite text editor, Text Wrangler from Bare Bones Software. In fact, we don’t even use the Visual editor in Wordpress to write these posts. Yes, we’re hardcore to the bone.
Aptana Studio
Recently, I took a look at a few IDEs to see what all of the fuss was about. After trying 4 of them over the course of a week, I was rather unimpressed with the results. Granted they work slightly differently from each other and overall the goal is to speed up development, I found them rather difficult to use. I also particularly found the interface to be an eye sore. Though thinking about it further, I decided to give them another go and be a little bit more open to how they work. I won’t go into which IDEs they were though except to say that the one that stood out from crowd was Aptana Studio.

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