Code + Thoughts

Hi, I'm Bart van Ackooij from the Netherlands. I'm a student multimediadesign and I hope to graduate soon. I came across a post called 'developing for blackberry playbook'. You posted it a long time ago (almost a year). To graduate I'm thinking about making an application for the playbook. Well, i'm a designer and not so much a developer. I got a few short questions about the possibilities of developing a HIFI prototype and I was wondering if you wanted to help me out. Won't take long i guess.

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:59:48 -0800

Hello,
A lot has changed since the Playbook SDK was first launched but I’ll try to help you out if I can.

-chris

"For all our talk about the social web, what we’re very often sharing on for-profit social..."

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:55:09 -0800

“For all our talk about the social web, what we’re very often sharing on for-profit social platforms amounts to nothing more than narcissistic rumination”

- http://prospect.org/article/jimmy-wales-needs-your-help

Where to educate yourself online

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:26:26 -0800

I’ve been stumbling upon all of these great, (sometimes) free, online resources and rather than bookmark to forget, I’m hoping these list will ultimately become some sort of super collaborative compendium.

General Education

http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/12-dozen-places-to-self-educate-yourself-online/

Math (www.nctm.org)
KhanAcademy.com

Web Development

ShowMeDo.com
Greepit.com
CodeAcademy.com
Lynda.com
PluralSight.com (Not free but perfect for advanced developers)
The New Boston

Putting tools in the hands of content creators.

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:26:00 -0800

Putting tools in the hands of content creators.

Making Augmented Reality more accessible

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:26:00 -0800

I was listening to a lecture (http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/node/4784) on Augmented Reality and was really impressed with the way technology is being thought of at the university level. It used to be the case that universities would encourage a lot of research and development that -at best- would result in an SDK or library that businesses would later commercialize. From Blair MacIntyre’s lecture, it seems that his team is more focused creating tools for content producers as well as the general public. It’s an interesting approach with the potential to not only gain widespread adoption but also some serious street cred. In a new media sphere where content creators are at the top of the ladder, empower storytellers to create new ways to engage audiences also gives benefit to the Internet at large. Well done!

I love this bell-shaped curve that best explains the target audience his R&D team is aiming for http://chrisaiv.com/post/14868204122/tools-for-content-creators

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:00:06 -0800

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

- Steve Jobs

"What we were selling was solutions, not hardware and so we realized that software was a big part of..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:51:05 -0800

“What we were selling was solutions, not hardware and so we realized that software was a big part of the solution and therefore we’d better get our software act together.”

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvMgMrNDlg

"Man as a toolmaker has the ability to make a tool to amplify inherent ability that he has."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:36:00 -0800

“Man as a toolmaker has the ability to make a tool to amplify inherent ability that he has.”

- Steve Jobs

Removing and preventing .DS_STORE from GitHub projects

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:48:32 -0800

Removing and preventing .DS_STORE from GitHub projects

"@henryjenkins Spreadability is not just about viral videos, it can also be a public apparatus where..."

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:55:08 -0800

“@henryjenkins Spreadability is not just about viral videos, it can also be a public apparatus where people help shape how content is made.”

- http://www.annenberglab.com/eventdetail/79

Setting up your virtualenv in PyCharm (OSX)

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:19:03 -0800

Setting up your virtualenv in PyCharm (OSX):

When building Django apps, it’s recommended that you do your work in a virtual environment. It’s incredibly easy to do in PyCharm so here’s the quick reference guide.

Giveabrief.com makes prototyping both easy and fun

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:02:00 -0800

Giveabrief.com makes prototyping both easy and fun

Incredible footage of Steve Jobs while at Next computers

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:56:06 -0800

Incredible footage of Steve Jobs while at Next computers

"Great companies have marketing intentionally built into the DNA of their products. YouTube’s video..."

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:43:03 -0800

“Great companies have marketing intentionally built into the DNA of their products. YouTube’s video sharing, Groupon’s group buying, Method’s stunning packaging, Dropbox’s shared folders, Kickstarter’s crowd-funding. Maybe you didn’t realize it, but just by using them you’re part of their marketing team. Clever.”

- http://pulse.me/s/3fGKK

"There is one thing that may actually separate you from the creepers who breed in the darkest corners..."

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:55:33 -0800

“There is one thing that may actually separate you from the creepers who breed in the darkest corners of the cloud: You may actually try. You can pound the pavement, make on-the-fly decisions where both options are the wrong answer, sell until your face changes color, invest your own hard-earned money, invest other people’s hard-earned money, ruin someone else’s social life, and even ruin your own.”

- http://m.readwriteweb.com/start/2011/11/entrepreneurship-sucks.php

Cron Jobs

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:36:11 -0800

*    *     *    *     *  command to be executed
-    -    -    -     -
|     |     |     |     |
|     |     |     |     +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
|     |     |     +------- month (1 - 12)
|     |     +--------- day of month      (1 - 31)
|     +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)

crontab -e

0    6    *    *    *    /path/to/shell/script

Choosing maps for mash-ups

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:17:12 -0800

If you’re a developer looking for a list of high quality maps to mash-up, here are a few of my favorite:

P2P for Good

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:36:00 -0700

What do Skype, Spotify, and Joost have in common? They’re companies using P2P technology for good. Yup, that’s right. Contrary to popular belief, P2P is not the great evil content distributors would like you to think. It’s simply a hammer which can be used for both bad and good and I’m on a side that believes that P2P can help improve people’s digital experiences. For the next couple of months, you’ll probably see me post a ton of ambiguous quotes and 1/2 intelligible facts about the intricacies of person-to-person sharing. At first glance, the possibilities seem endless and well, now it’s time to see what is available considering: time, scope, and resources. So without further adieu, time to learn about OSI Layers, UDP, TCP, and Multicasting, Bootstrapping, GroupSpecifier, NetConnections, and everything else. Woo hoo!

Video 1: Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP)

http://realeyes.adobeconnect.com/p56ht3hgmt4/

More to come soon…

Answering life's questions

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:20:15 -0700

Not sure if this is entirely true but someone just explained that most of life’s questions can be answered using one of these 5 methods:

Case Study
Focus Groups
Interview
Surveys
Experiments

3 ways to implement listeners in Android

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:13:00 -0700

3 ways to implement listeners in Android:

If your new to JAVA/Android (like me), I highly suggest you spend 3 minutes learning the one, two, three’s of listening. Nerd alert, this is only for techies who want to better understand how to listen to event-driven data messaging.