When I talked to my wife about the iPad I mentioned that I was glad I was a programmer because it would give me an opportunity to buy it, otherwise, I wouldn’t bother. I wouldn’t bother buying it because I saw it as a machine on which I couldn’t make stuff, which mostly meant [...]
Categories: opensource, technology
Tagged: ipad, technology
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 [...]
Categories: Los Angeles, google, la-gtug, technology
Let me start by providing examples of Flex Framework Frameworks (FFF): Cairngorm, PureMVC (I know, it’s not just Flex), Mate, Swiz. You get the idea. All these frameworks provide ways to deal with Event Handling, Command or Action handling, ease separation of concerns so you can code in MVC, some provide inversion of control, or [...]
Categories: Software Design, flex, technology
Tagged: flex
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 [...]
Categories: Los Angeles, announcements, google, la-gtug, technology
I just got my developer sandbox account for Google Wave. I’m testing it out. My dev wave account is robert dot cadena at wavesandbox dot com. If you don’t see the content between the two lines below then you don’t have Google Wave sandbox access. I’ll post a screenshot later.
[edited: the wave [...]
Categories: google, technology
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 [...]
Categories: Los Angeles, la-gtug, technology
Tagged: la-gtug
I’m not at SXSW this year, so I’ve spent my time working on a few new media projects. I was looking around for some ideas for putting together a mechanism for one of the projects and I came upon these wonderful videos of wooden automata on YouTube.
Below are some of my favorites:
The Barecats
(Either JavaScript is [...]
Categories: art, technology
Tagged: art
The March 2009 issue Adobe’s NewsFlash is out. This is the monthly newsletter for Flash Platform Developers that used to be called RIA Buzz. I like the new name, as it points out that we’re talking about the entire Flash platform, including AIR, Flex, PDF, server side, Ajax, and more.
Check out the issue and sign [...]
Categories: air, blazeds, flex, technology
The winners of the 1st round of #tweetcoding have been announced. #tweetcoding is a contest where you submit to twitter a bit of AS3 code that does something interesting in 140 characters or less. @gskinner, @adobeted, and @NeoRiley had to comb through 250 interesting entries and decide on the winner. It came down to a [...]
Categories: flex, social web, technology
@gskinner started off a little contest where the object is to create an interesting SWF in 140 characters or less of AS3 code.
I went ahead and wrote a server side script that scans the tweets submitted to this contest and compiles the entries then makes them available here: http://tweetcoding.machine501.com/
There are already some interesting pieces submitted [...]
Categories: flex, python, social web, technology