Last week I had the pleasure of attending the YouTube / Picasa Web API Hackathon at Googleplex. Google is always a great host and they provided food, t-shirts, and even raffled a pass to Google I/O. The hackathon started out with presentations by folks on the Google Data (GData) team. All of Google application make [...]
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I was reading over the descriptions for the currently scheduled sessions for JavaOne 2008. Here is a short list of the sessions that seem interesting to me in no particular order. BOF-5110: Extending Groovys Swing User Interface in Builder to Build Richer Applications BOF-5998: Meet the Java Posse BOF-6229: Cutting-Edge Productivity with RIFE and Web [...]
Recently I wrote a tutorial on how to use XPCOM in FireFox to access the user’s disk drive. With XPCOM you can access core browser functionality and with the right permissions can even read files and data off the user’s disk drive, access the network, and much more. In this code walk through we will [...]
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A few months back I took a look at TIBCO General Interface, an AJAX/Web Development framework with an IDE/Builder than runs on your browser. The one thing that amazed me about General Interface was that it saved files to your local disk drive from the browser. Earlier today I was experimenting with TiddlyWiki, a wiki [...]
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It is that time of year where we reflect on the accomplishments of the passing year and look forward to the one to come. Here is a window into the past year in technology through this year’s popular posts on TechKnow Juixe. Top 5 Top Lists Top Programming Books on Google Book Search Top Technology [...]
Here is a list of great programming quotes from my readings over the last year. It is interesting to note that most of my reading material this year has been from blogs. There are just a great amount of programmer bloggers writing a lot of informative tutorials on every programming language, paradigm shift, and framework [...]