Category Archives: announcements

Los Angeles Google Technologies User Group: Jason Robbins on Google Code 0

I’m happy to announce that Jason Robbins will be our guest speaker for the first Los Angeles Google Technologies User Group. He’ll be talking about Google Code.
When:
8/19/2009, 7pm to 9pm
Where:
Google Santa Monica
604 Arizona Ave
Santa Monica (right by the 3rd street promenade)
What:
Jason Robbins on Google Code.
Find out more about Jason and the meeting at the [...]

At Microsoft Technology Summit 0

Come join me at http://www.chatopica.com/topics/flex
Quick announcement early on: microsoft collaborating to provide apache poi support for office open xml.

Adobe MAX Air Demos, Come Say Hi! 0

Hey everyone, Tom and I are demoing our SearchCoders/Dashboard app at max. We are one of five winners of the Adobe AIR derby and so we have a booth in the community pavillion where we’re showing the app. There are other derby winners, like Ed Finkler, demoing their apps here too.  So, come [...]

Code chat for Pythonistas 0

I’ve put a little chat widget for chatting about python on my blog sidebar.
I use IRC to chat with other programmers and I’m used to showing my code using a pastebin.  But when Tom and I started writing this flash chat widget I decided to come up with something that would let me paste code [...]

Flash meet Flex: Los Angeles Flex Users Group Meeting: June 12th, 7-9pm 0

Hey everybody,
the next Los Angeles Flex Users Group is all about using Flash CS3 and Flex. Check out the announcement on the laflex site for more info:
Flash meet Flex: Los Angeles Flex Users Group Meeting: June 12th, 7-9
Hope to see you there.

Candy Colored Code: Open Source Syntax Highlighting Library in ActionScript 3 4

I’m happy to announce the release of my syntax highlighting library written in ActionScript 3. It’s released under a BSD license, so have at it.
I wrote this library for the SearchCoders/Dashboard. It’s used in the chatrooms so that geeks can send each other pieces of code and have that code show [...]

Moving My Blog 0

I’m moving to a different server and doing some blog-keeping. Please standby.
Update: done!

SearchCoders/Dashboard 1.2 0

Today tom and I released the next version of our apollo app and it’s awesome. you should check it out:
http://labs.searchcoders.com/dashboard/demo/
There’s a screencast and instructions for how to download it.
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SearchCoders/Flex Live! 0

I’m proud to announce that Tom Bray and I have just launched SearchCoders/Flex, a powerful Flex based application for searching and keeping up with the Flexcoders search list. That and consulting for Stanford university has kept me away from posting, but I’ll soon be back with articles about our experiences using Flex and FDS [...]