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Netphase Accepted Into iPhone Developer Program

Chris — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:27:21 +0000

We are excited to announce that as of the Spring of 2009, Netphase has been accepted into Apple’s iPhone Developer program! Our first applications for distribution in the iTunes App Store are already in the works, and we look forward to joining the elite fraternity of iPhone App Developers in the very near future.

As a company, our developers had been learning the ins-and-outs of developing applications for the best mobile platform on the planet for almost a year now. Once we honed our skills to a level that would enable us to provide the same quality service to clients that we provide when developing web applications, we started the long application process through the Apple Developer Connection. Now that we are officially part of the program, we can design, build, test and distribute iPhone Applications not only for our own purposes, but for clients as well.

The iPhone App Store offers an incredible channel for marketing and selling your company’s products and services. With millions of Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users in 80 countries around the world, your application has the potential to be a global success. The capabilities of the platform allow for virtually any kind of application that you can dream up to become a reality. Do you have an idea for a new iPhone App? Contact us today and we will help you turn your App Dream into a reality.

Netphase Has Its Head In The Clouds

Chris — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:46:49 +0000

Ever since the beta period for Amazon’s Enhanced Computing Cloud, or EC2, Netphase has been deploying applications into the stratosphere. We immediately saw the benefits of having a robust, infinitely scalable, stable and ultimately flexible environment in which to host everything from a simple content managed site up to the most demanding search engine application. We are proud to say that today, all Netphase hosted applications are deployed on our EC2 infrastructure.

We find that the ability to spin-up a new instance of a server in minutes and then take it down whenever it is no longer needed makes EC2 a perfect environment for establishing test servers and also for adding additional application servers to handle the demands of increased site traffic related to a new feature launch or other big event. Because you only pay for computing cycles used, EC2 is far more cost-effective than maintaining a physical server farm, where you are paying for computing horsepower and bandwidth whether you use it or not.

EC2 installations are perfect for multi-tiered web applications as well. In the fall of 2008, we hosted a brand new Search Engine, ubExact.com, on a seven-instance server cluster in our cloud. Whenever we needed to add another web server for load balancing or another application server, we were able to bring it online in minutes. During ubExact’s unfortunately short lifespan (victims of the initial economic downturn), we never experienced an outage related to server load or performance.

Do you have an application that is getting ready to go big-time, but are not sure if your current infrastructure can handle the pressure? Or are you simply paying too much in hardware and personnel costs to maintain your existing server farm? Contact us today to find out how looking to the clouds can take your website to new heights!

Acts As Amazon Product

Chris — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:53:45 +0000

Acts As Amazon Product, or AAAP for short, is a Ruby Gem developed by Netphase and available on github as an Open Source offering. This gem allows you to easily include products from Amazon’s vast catalog in your application. You have great control over whether you want the items to load into their own models, or one of your own, and also if the model is saved or merely loaded in memory for further action by you application.

We have used Acts As Amazon Product in production, as have other stellar Ruby on Rails consultancies. We hope that you find it as helpful as we have. And true to the open source nature of the project, if you have any ideas on how we can make AAAP better, by all means, submit a pull request!

For more information on AAAP, check out the project page on Github. Enjoy!