Facebook announced its new SDK for Android developers today. One of our developers was at Google I/O last week where Facebook was showing a developer preview.
Up until now the ways to integrate Facebook into Android applications were hacks that weren’t officially supported by Facebook. But in a nod to the fast-growing popularity of [...]
Everybody is calling everyone else, apparently, in a monster repackaging of data, re-presenting info on my website (please stay here, don’t go to the source) and especially via mobile apps. REST is killing SOAP. Some info on the numbers, republished from a ReadWriteWeb post:
Perhaps most illustrative is his “API Billionaire’s Club.”
Members of the club include [...]
I’ve been intrigued by a few different “Javascript on the server” frameworks as they have passed by. Here is one that runs Javascript in a cloud and have an online IDE for creating the sites. The article at the bottom is an interview with the creator.
Akshell is a Cloud Service that helps developers [...]
I have appreciated a lot of what Martin Fowler has to say about development over the years.
He will be in San Francisco on May 11-12 for a couple of free forms. The 11th is Tuesday in Santa Clara and the 12th in in San Francisco. Both are free.
Unfortunately the 12th is a Community builders night [...]
I came across a couple of university web sites and was interested how they were programmed.
The first is Bucknell’s Virtual Tour site: http://community.bucknell.edu/. It is made up of a lot of full screen photos but seems to load extremely fast. Browse around and you can see what I am talking about. Probably AJAX pulling in [...]
Just wanted to try to keep track of some interesting modules mentioned at DrupalCon:
Organic Groups – create groups that users can join. groups can have own home page and context
PURL – use for embedding context info into URL. Use this instead of setting session variables
Context Spaces – more granular variable level overrides than using Context [...]
Jason and I attended a DrupalCon session on a Open Atrium, a drupal distribution for intranets and project management. It’s basically Drupal-based app that competes with 37Signals’ Basecamp/Campfire/Backpack suite. It’s an impressive product which made me think to look up some other Drupal distros that could be of interest. Here’s some of what I’ve found [...]
The New York Times has an article about Ushahidi, a platform for aggregating data and plotting it on a map. Ushahidi was created by a Kenyan lawyer after the violence that followed the 2007 Kenya election.
The site collected user-generated cellphone reports of riots, stranded refugees, rapes and deaths and plotted them on [...]
It looks like Android users are overwhelmingly guys (73%!):
Got an Android phone? You’re probably a man
Are most early adopters men or is it something inherent to the platform?
Here are some more mobile stats: AdMob Mobile Stats January 2010
I found a funny quirk to the javascript parseInt function today. I tried this:
hour = parseInt(“08″);
expected a value of hour == 8. What was the result? hour == 0. huh?
Well, here’s the function syntax:
parseInt(string, radix)
If the radix parameter is omitted, JavaScript assumes the following:
If the string begins with “0x”, the radix is 16 (hexadecimal)
If [...]
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