Category Archives: Los Angeles

Venice Photo Walk 0

I walked down the Venice, CA boardwalk a few weekends ago and took these shots.

There are more shots over on the venice set on Flickr.

Jason Robbins of Google at the first Los Angeles Google Technologies User Group 0

One final reminder that today’s the first Los Angeles Google Technologies User Group. Jason Robbins of Google will talk about collaborative development environments like Google Code.
The talk is at the Google Santa Monica office from 7-9pm.
We’ll be raffling off the following books, courtesy of O’Reilly:
Using Google App Engine
Android Application Development
and
Erlang Programming
You can RSVP at [...]

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 [...]

Coming to LA – Google Technologies User Group 0

August 19th is the first meeting of the Los Angeles Google Technologies User Group in Santa Monica.
The meetings will feature presentations from Googlers and non-Google people on Google technologies like GWT, Android, Wave, and Chrome.
We’re still working on the topic for the first meeting and I’ll post an update on this blog about it [...]

Battle for the Green: LA vs SF, Unrelated: Adobe Open Source Project Management 0

I was just catching up on my SFist LAist reading and was reading through the comments on a post linking to an LATimes story comparing LA to SF on a green scale. turns out sf wins. Then I saw this comment I thought “Oh no you di’n’t”
i have always promoted the awesomeness [...]

Composting Made Easy 0

About a year ago I noticed that a lot of the stuff going into my kitchen trash was vegetable waste. My wife and I are vegetarian. Well I’m mostly vegetarian; I’ll eat the occasional fish and turkey. At home, anyway, we eat vegetarian and most of the waste that was going [...]

The Governator at Work 0

From the state budget :  http://www.cdcan.us/budget/2007-2008/FullBudgetSummary.pdf

I am vetoing $15,000,000 General Fund on a one-time basis for maintenance at state parks.
For support of State Air Resources Board. I reduce this item from $174,541,000 to $154,541,000.
I am deleting the $20,000,000 legislative augmentation for construction equipment grants that would be funded by increasing vehicle-related fees charged to the [...]

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.

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 [...]