Pathfinder in the News

• Pathfinder Development Launches Beer Hunter Rich Internet Application for DestinationBeer.com (11/03/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, announces the successful development and launch of PlantCollections.org, providing a wealth of data and information about plants worldwide.

• Pathfinder Announces Noel Rappin’s “Developing iPhone Applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse,” is Now Available on IBM’s developerWorks Site (08/01/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, announced “Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse, Part 3: Developing advanced views for iPhone” by Pathfinder’s Noel Rappin is now available at IBM’s developerWorks site.

• Pathfinder Announces Part 4 of Brian Dillard’s “Ajax Overhaul” Tutorial Series is Now Available from IBM’s developerWorks Site (08/01/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, today announced the publication of ‘Ajax overhaul, Part 4: Ajax overhaul, Part 4: Retrofit existing sites with jQuery and Ajax forms’.

• Pathfinder Announces Noel Rappin’s Newest Installment of “Developing iPhone Applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse,” is Now Available on IBM’s developerWorks Site (07/09/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, announced the second in a series of articles: “Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse, Part 2: Displaying iPhone content to the client”.

• Pathfinder Announces Brian Dillard’s Part 3 of the “Ajax Overhaul” Tutorial Series is Now Available from IBM’s developerWorks Site (07/08/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, today announced the publication of ‘Ajax overhaul, Part 3: Retrofit existing sites with jQuery, Ajax tabs, and photo carousels’.

• Pathfinder Development Helps Deliver PlantCollections.org (6/25/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, announces the successful development and launch of PlantCollections.org, providing a wealth of data and information about plants worldwide.

• Pathfinder Development Celebrates 10th Anniversary (06/12/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm headquartered in Chicago, has recently reached a major milestone by celebrating its 10th anniversary.

• Pathfinder’s Noel Rappin Outlines How to Build Ruby on Rails Applications for the iPhone in Latest Article for IBM’s developerWorks Site (06/06/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, announced the first in a series of articles by Pathfinder’s Noel Rappin is now available at IBM developerWorks.

• Pathfinder’s Matt Nolker Invited to Speak at Inaugural RIApalooza Conference (05/26/2008)

  Pathfinder Development, a leading user experience design and software development firm, is pleased to announce that Matt Nolker, Pathfinder’s Director of User Experience Design, has been invited to speak at RIApalooza, taking place in Chicago, May 30 & 31, 2008.

• Pathfinder’s Noel Rappin Unveils Rails Plug-In for iPhone Applications (05/16/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, announced the initial release of rails_iui, an open source Rails Plug-In for the iPhone created by Noel Rappin.

• Pathfinder Announces Brian Dillard’s Latest Addition to the “Ajax Overhaul” Tutorial Series (05/13/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, today announced the publication of “Ajax overhaul, Part 2: Retrofit existing sites with jQuery, Ajax, tooltips, and lightboxes.”

• Pathfinder’s Brian Dillard Selected to Speak at Web 2.0 Expo (04/08/2008)

  Pathfinder Development, a leading user experience design and software development firm, is pleased to announce that Brian Dillard, Pathfinder’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) Evangelist, has been invited to present at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo, which is taking place April 22-25, 2008 in San Francisco, CA.

• Pathfinder’s Brian Dillard Writes “Ajax Overhaul” Tutorial for IBM’s developerWorks Site (03/06/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, announced today that the first in a series of articles by Pathfinder’s Brian J. Dillard is now available at IBM developerWorks.

• Pathfinder Announces the Release of Noel Rappin’s Newest Book: “Professional Ruby on Rails” (02/28/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading agile development and user experience design firm, announces the release of Noel Rappin’s newest book “Professional Ruby On Rails” (Wrox Press, 2008). Rappin is Pathfinder’s Director of Ruby on Rails Practice and has previously co-authored “wxPython in Action” and “Jython Essentials”.

• Pathfinder Helps Bring the Chicago Sun-Times to Facebook (2/8/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading software development and user experience design firm, teamed with the Sun-Times News Group to deliver its new Facebook application: YourSeason.

• Pathfinder Names Noel Rappin Director of Ruby on Rails Practice (01/09/2008)

  Pathfinder, a leading agile development and user experience design firm, has named Noel Rappin, noted software engineer and author of “Professional Ruby On Rails” (Wrox Press, 2008) as Director of it’s growing Ruby on Rails Practice. Rails is a full-stack web application development framework for developing rich, powerful applications in a fraction of the time required when using .Net or J2EE.

• Pathfinder Sponsors Chicago’s World Usability Day and Showcases Customer Success and Healthcare Expertise (11/06/2007)

  Pathfinder Associates is sponsoring World Usability Day in Chicago, taking place on November 8, 2007 at the Hotel Intercontinental. This represents the third annual global event designed to raise awareness of the importance of usability, focusing specifically on healthcare applications.

• Taras Novak Named Vice President of Development at Pathfinder (08/21/2007)

  Taras will contribute to building out Pathfinder’s agile software product development practice and lead research and development efforts on information visualization using emerging web 2.0 technologies, public APIs, and RIA platforms such as Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight.

• Pathfinder Invited to Present at Software Marketing Perspectives Conference (05/01/2007)

  Pathfinder will be providing significant content to the 2007 Software 500 Marketing Perspectives Conference and Expo. Pathfinder Sales Director Paul Dittmann will provide case studies for the Current Product Management Strategies of Selected Software 500 Companies panel. The annual conference for the nation’s top 500 software development and marketing firms is set for May 23rd through the 25th in Boston.

• Pathfinder's Dietrich Kappe Contributes to New AJAX Reference (04/16/2007)

  Pathfinder’s Chief Technology Officer Dietrich Kappe added author to his list of professional credentials recently. Dietrich Kappe is a major contributor to Sys-Con Books’ latest technical reference: Real World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters.