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Internet TV and how watching Vimeo is a whole different experience with this!
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Bonus points for the soundtrack. Kno is a new device, that is geared at the education market (double display, text-book-like shape). It’s a tad big for my taste, but includes some nifty features I’m missing on my iPad (scribbles and notes). Perhaps Microsoft should have another look at their Courier concept.
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Google Plussed
Google Plus is releasing a number of new features, one of which is Ripples (pictured above). Ripples visualize how a post is shared across the entire network, as well as within small networks (in G+ parlance, Circles). That is:
The ripple diagram shows this post spreading as users share it on Google+. Arrows indicate a user receiving the post, then resharing. Circles within circles represent a resharing sequence, so large circles indicate busy resharing.
Also released is Google Plus for organizations using Google Apps. This could be interesting for geographically dispersed editorial teams as they collaborate on documents. For example, a reporter has a story in Google Docs and she and her editor can hop into Hangouts (G+’s video conferencing) and co-create within it.
And finally, Picassa got an update. G+ uses this for image sharing and it now includes new editing filters. Google is calling this the G+ Creative Kit:
Google+ Creative Kit, [is] a fast and friendly way to make powerful edits to your photos. Now you can add that vintage feel to your vacation photos. Or sharpen those snapshots from the family barbeque. Or add some text for added personality.
For more, Mashable fills in the details.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltqm6y64901qedj2ho1_500.jpg)
Google Plussed
Google Plus is releasing a number of new features, one of which is Ripples (pictured above). Ripples visualize how a post is shared across the entire network, as well as within small networks (in G+ parlance, Circles). That is:
The ripple diagram shows this post spreading as users share it on Google+. Arrows indicate a user receiving the post, then resharing. Circles within circles represent a resharing sequence, so large circles indicate busy resharing.
Also released is Google Plus for organizations using Google Apps. This could be interesting for geographically dispersed editorial teams as they collaborate on documents. For example, a reporter has a story in Google Docs and she and her editor can hop into Hangouts (G+’s video conferencing) and co-create within it.
And finally, Picassa got an update. G+ uses this for image sharing and it now includes new editing filters. Google is calling this the G+ Creative Kit:
Google+ Creative Kit, [is] a fast and friendly way to make powerful edits to your photos. Now you can add that vintage feel to your vacation photos. Or sharpen those snapshots from the family barbeque. Or add some text for added personality.
For more, Mashable fills in the details.
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Episode 0.6.2 - IronJS with Fredrik Holmström →
Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET.
Catch up with us at:
- TXJS, a day JavaScript, hacking, and Southern Charm in Austin, TX.
- Lone Star Ruby Conference V is now accepting proposals for talks. Have you submitted?
- RubyConf Argentina Save the date, Nov 8-9 in Buenos Aires
Items mentioned in the show:
- IronJS A JavaScript implementation for .NET written in F#
- Fredrik Holmström, creator of IronJS
- F# is a succinct, expressive and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET which helps you write simple code to solve complex problems.
- “This JScript thing”
- Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET.
- IronJS continues in the tradition of IronPython and IronRuby
- IronJS implements EcmaScript 3 but is working towards EcmaScript 5 support
- Miguel de Icaza created Mono.
- Nuget is a free, open source developer focused package management system for .NET.
- Codeplex seems to be the place to find .NET open source
- GitHub is hosting more and more .NET projects
- C# and .NET are hard to Google
- Kayak is an asynchronous HTTP server written in C#
- Zed Shaw, featured on Episode 0.3.4
- Don Syme, architect behind F#
- “John” Gietzen has contributed to IronJS.
- Follow @IronJS on Twitter for updates.
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Episode 0.5.9 - Ruby gems with Nick Quaranto →
Wynn sat down with Nick Quaranto at Red Dirt Ruby Conference to talk about Gemcutter, RubyGems.org, and how to get started creating your own Ruby gem.
This week’s show is brought to you by GitHub Jobs
- Software Engineer at Asana lg.gd/aj
- Rails Software Engineer at CrowdTap lg.gd/am
- Software engineers at Secure Endpoints lg.gd/ak
Items mentioned in the show:
- Nick Quaranto, creator of Gemcutter which is now RubyGems.org
- Gemcutter is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service.
- Tom Preston-Warner, founder of GitHub
- RubyForge was the original spot to host your Ruby project.
- Peter Cooper, publisher of Ruby Inside and co-host of the Ruby Show.
- A gemspec is a manifest for a Ruby gem.
- Since a gemspec is saved as YAML, you can embed Ruby in it.
- Bundler manages a Ruby application’s dependencies through its entire life across many machines systematically and repeatably.
- Bundler 1.1 aims to speed up how gems are fetched.
- Jeweler and Hoe help you create, package, and release gems.
- Ryan Tomayko from GitHub tells us why “require ‘rubygems’” is wrong
- GitHub is no longer in the Gem building business.
- Erik Michaels-Ober uses the gem post install message to share resources with users.
- When not squashing Gemcutter bugs or applying patches, Nick likes to play with Redis and EventMachine.
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An iOS Developer Takes on Android
Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.
We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.
We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to follow, like putting our tabs on the top. Other conventions go deep into the Android Way, like handling
Intents, closing oldActivities, implementing Search Providers, and being strict about references to help the garbage collector.Now, our platform leverages HTML5 (buzzword, sorry) in many places for branding and content display, so we got a fair amount of UI for free. But there was much platform code written in Objective-C that needed translation into Java, such as map navigation, directions, and location switching.
So, we rolled up our sleeves, downloaded the Android SDK, and got to work.
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