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Mobile Apps

Mobile Commerce – Forever Changing How We Shop

This holiday season, it’s likely that your shopping experiences will be different than ever before, thanks to the proliferation of smartphones and tablets. The number of mobile shoppers is increasing, as is the amount of

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News

Thorn Technologies Listed Among Baltimore’s Fastest Growing Private Companies

The Baltimore Business Journal has listed Thorn Technologies as one of the 10 Fastest Growing companies in Baltimore. Total revenue from 2010 – 2011 related to mobile software consulting services increased over 92%. Projected revenue for 2012 will likely follow this trend as Thorn Technologies expands their consulting business related to Bulk SMS Messaging, Mobile Payments, and Amazon Web Services based cloud deployments.

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News

Thorn Technologies Wins Grails Development Contract at Space Telescope Science Institute

Thorn Technologies is excited to announce that it has been awarded a contract to provide expert Grails development services to the Space Science Telescope Institute (STScI). STScI operates the science program for the Hubble Space Telescope and will conduct the science program and mission operations for the James Webb Space Telescope. Thorn Technologies will assist with the redesign of the Grant Management System, an online tool for administering space telescope grants for granting agencies, investigators, and research administrators.

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Mobile Website Using Grails
Enterprise Java

Grails Case Study: High Traffic Mobile Website Using the Weceem Plugin

For the past several years, Thorn Technologies had been hired to design and host the mobile website of a very large U.S. Tax Preparation company. This mobile site was built with the Grails Web Application Framework and uses the Weceem Content Management plugin. On average, the site received over 100,000 hits per day – significantly more during tax season. There were some lessons learned deploying this high traffic site that we are happy to share.

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Enterprise Java

Serialize HTML in JSON Using XSLT

I am working on a project that make heavy use of XSLT to covert XML data from a legacy system to JSON for an HTML5 Web Application. Converting XML to JSON is actually quite easy

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Mule Mongo Connector Fails Under Heavy Load

I am working on a Mule ESB project that processes a significant number of inbound HTTP requests. We have been using MongoDB to log a ton of data because, well, its just awesome. So I dropped the Mule MongoDB Connector (version 2.0.1) into my Maven pom.xml and had everything logging to mongo in minutes. “What a piece of cake!” I though. Everything was working great at first…until I threw a heavy load at it. It was then that I realized that the Mule Mongo Connector Fails Under Heavy Load. Keep reading to find out what caused the problem and see how I fixed it.

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