Results Delivered.

Award Winning Software that is Easy to Use and Drives New Revenue.

“We used Pathfinder to help us create our new award-winning education site, Rand McNally Classroom. The site has been recognized by the education industry for its ease of use.”

Kendra Ensor
Vice President, National Products
Rand McNally

Pathfinder News and Events

• 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’.

• more news>

Pathfinder Blogs

Bandwidth profiling Flex projects and more with Charles

Sasha Dzeletovic, 19 November 2008

Adobe Flash comes with a very useful feature for bandwidth profiling. It allows you to see how will your site/app act under certain network conditions. Flex Builder unfortunately does not have that option so we have to look somewhere else for a solution for testing. While there are many applications that simulate various network conditions, Charles ...

Continue reading

iPhone SDK: UIViewController Testing & TDD

Ivan Moscoso, 18 November 2008

Unfortunately there are not enough examples out there on how to test view controllers with the iPhone SDK. My hope is to remedy that a bit by sharing some techniques I have been using to tackle the problem, particularly in keeping with the spirit of TDD along the way. First, If you have not already done so, configure your project to use GTM. This ...

Continue reading

Icons are evil; so are menus - unless you do them right

Brian Dillard, 18 November 2008

Menus and dropdowns seem like attractive design choices because they conserve screen real estate while providing users access to a potentially large number of commands. But if you resist the easy out of menus and dropdowns, you may find that your applications become far more usable. Survey the software you use for yourself, both browser- and desktop ...

Continue reading

The Truth About Designing For Security

Ivan Moscoso, 18 November 2008

Security is an area of concern where value and cost are often difficult to estimate.  While big mistakes made early on in many areas of an application may prove difficult to correct, this is especially true for security, since its specifications often model a direct reflection of an organizational structure. And all too often, dysfunctional organi ...

Continue reading

GWT, Gadgets and OpenSocial, Part 2

Dietrich Kappe, 17 November 2008

Note: It is assumed that you know your way around GWT and Eclipse for purposes of this tutorial. While developing OpenSocial applications can be a bit tricky, getting set up to develop can be a real pain in the neck. For this installment of OpenSocial and GWT, I'm going to go through the basics of setting up a simple Hello World gadget with iGoogle. ...

Continue reading