I’ve been attending activities in the social media scene here in Utah ever since the first Social Media Dev Garage held at Twelve Horses that hosted Jeff Barr who discussed Amazon Web Services,  and I’ve been hooked ever since.  From what I have seen of the technology community here in Utah not many are doing the sort of fresh and innovative work that Bungee Labs are doing down in Orem, Utah.  The tool that they are working on is an endeavor that could shake up the developer community in a big way.  That tool is called Bungee Connect.

First off they are hosting the IDE on their servers which allows you to work from any machine without having to install thousands of dollars worth of software.  Secondly, they are providing the hosting for your application, which can be a pretty worrisome thing for a developer to have another company host their application without them being able to access the files themselves.  Fortunately they mentioned that later on down the road they will be providing you with a bevy of hosting options so I don’t think this fear will be well founded for at least very much longer.  But I think the real trick with Bungee’s software is going to be the amount of ajax that is going on in the background that you really don’t have to worry about, and Bungee’s flatened MVC architecture that abstracts things out so each section can communicate quickly and effectively.  I don’t have much in the way of media to show you from them but they were exceptional hosts who took the time to sit with us and walk us through setting up our own application that was able to take advantage of some of the shared code base that one of them had been working on (Brad Hintze took and wrapped the Twitter API into an importable class allowing us to call the API without having to mess with the XML return)  But in the way of media I highy recommend Jesse Stay’s video on Bungee Connect.