We’re a small team here at Constant Contact and we build and develop applications and tools using a variety of technologies. If it is something we think can help the business - we’re interested.
Development for Apple’s iOS - the operating system running on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad - is a funny combination of wonderful and maddening. The platform’s native API, called Cocoa Touch, provides an app developer with an amazing combination of power and flexibility - and it’s been improving with each version. But the power and flexibility also come with a tradeoff: frameworks perform neat tricks, but at the cost of processing time and memory consumption. This is especially true when accessing a device’s camera, and especially true when accessing the camera on an iPhone 4, which returns huuuuge images.
About four weeks ago, Constant Contact released an update to our API offering. We added access to our Image Hosting capabilities through our RESTful API platform, just in time to bring more value to our upgraded Document Hosting features. Of course, I had to play with these new APIs as soon as they came out (partially to support our Developer Challenge and anyone using them there).
Hello there, I’m Joseph Henrich and I am the newest addition to the Constant Contact Labs team! I’m here to show you an x.org trick I developed while optimizing how I play World of Warcraft on my Dual-Screen Linux setup.
It’s so helpful. Thanks a lot.