Quick note – I created a quick and dirty Google+ API using Java. It lets you get at public profiles, followers and following, as well as recent posts. Code is available on Google Code I have a social graph visualizer … Continue reading
A few interesting ways I keep an eye on longer term technology trends. Google Trends: php, coldfusion, java, .net, ruby (This one has some problems, as “java” comes up for the country too…) Freshmeat Tags, sourceforge Indeed (job listing aggregator) … Continue reading
Jason’s Presentation: http://swfcamp-2009-shopper.googlecode.com/files/API%20design%2C%20modularization%20and%20components.pdf Code can be obtained here: http://swfcamp-2009-shopper.googlecode.com/ Joshua Bloch, Google, Inc., USA How To Design a Good API and Why it Matters: http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf Excerpt from Practical API design book by Jaroslov Tulach http://openide.netbeans.org/tutorial/api-design.html Great book about reusability: Will … Continue reading
A few collected thoughts & notes from around the web regarding what makes a good component/service. Interface – all implementations share this. Should have few methods, use data objects as return values, take primitives as inputs, throw only custom exceptions, … Continue reading
One of the products I’ve been working on for a number of years now is getting some visibility in a very cool way – the owner of the company is going to be exhibiting the product at the MIT EmTech … Continue reading
I’ve recently finished the functionality of my first native iPhone application. Here are some thoughts: Apple makes it easy to “do the right thing” as far as the UIKit libraries go, pretty nice, and cleaner & easier than Swing or … Continue reading
I’ll be presenting development best practices in the Flex/Flash/AIR tomorrow at mn.swf camp. Check back on this post for a copy of the presentation after I’m done. Here is my presentation.
So, I got interested in developing an application for the iPhone, but I don’t have a decent Mac to develop on. I found that the iPhone development is based on a subset of the Mac Cocoa framework. OSX came from … Continue reading
This is an embeddable from a site I did the technical architecture work for that launched recently for KMBC Kansas City, and will be rolled out to many other TV station sites soon. Give it a click to view the … Continue reading
Cool that it can work with plain JS and XML Fast rendering engine Cross platform/browser MediaElement events not great – may be due to the beta version. I’m currently working on a very simple video player in SilverLight that will … Continue reading