Latest thoughts
On most projects we learn new things about the systems and frameworks that we use. And sometimes we just come across cool stuff while we’re researching other products and services.
Below are some extracts of our latest thoughts on the things we’ve learnt and the things we’ve found which just might be helpful to someone else.
Can Factory release QB1-0 – Space Rocks!
Posted in press news on 6th December 2012Can Factory are pleased to announce the release of it’s first game!
Something strange is stirring in the Kuiper belt …
Can Factory releases free Cineworld iPhone app
Posted in press news on 19th July 2010On the 14th July 2010, Cineworld became the only UK cinema chain to offer its customers film information from a dedicated iPhone application.
Designed and developed by Can Factory, and described as ‘the complete cinema package for your pocket’, the Cineworld application provides cinema-goers with quick and easy access to film content, alongside the ability to purchase tickets directly for Cineworld’s cinemas in the UK and Ireland.
iPhone Webclip Icons
Posted in technical on 7th May 2010While browsing a website on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch you can tap the plus icon and select ‘Add to Home Screen’. This creates a shortcut to that URL as an icon that you can delete and move around just like an app. The default icon for a webclip is to screengrab the current page, however you can specify your own icon.
Hibernate Inheritance and Discriminators
Posted in technical on 9th September 2009An alternative way to declare discriminators using @DiscriminatorFormula. Been using Hibernate for going on 5 years now and there are still more things to learn!
Maven, Jetty and IntelliJ Debugging
Posted in technical on 21st April 2009We use IntelliJ as our primary IDE and the majority of our web projects run in Jetty during development. This is a quick guide to getting the debugger hooked up to an application.
Hibernate Annotations – Collection of Enums
Posted in technical on 18th February 2009Using a CoffeeRoster to demonstrate an example of how to store a collection of enums with Hibernate Annotations and @CollectionOfElements