Archive | November, 2008

OpenPyro wiki updates, and plans going forward

I have been talking a bit around OpenPyro quite a bit in my recent blog posts but I wasn’t sure if the project was gaining traction until MAX SF this year where I actually had more than a few conversations around OpenPyro. Oh wow, that was awesome! But I realize we haven’t been doing a [...]

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When terrorism hits home

Last night Mumbai suffered what some news reporters called the worst act of terrorism India has ever seen. Mumbai unfortunately, is no stranger to acts of terrorism but these attacks were of a completely different kind, the attackers definitely suicidal who just wanted to kill as many people as they could before they themselves were [...]

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Notes from Max 08

I got back from San Francisco this morning taking a couple of extra days at San Francisco to do some tourism. So I figured I’d put down what I had learned this year before the workweek clouded all that to a distant blur. As usual, MAX was f-ing awesome. I have tried to make it [...]

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Simple OpenPyro example with source: Image Viewer

Work on OpenPyro goes well, and I keep getting people asking me for examples of the framework in use. After receiving another request today on an OpenPyro example, I figured I’d write a quick widget and release it with the source. So check out this very simple Photo Browser app. The source can be found [...]

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BarCampPhilly 2008: What a blast !

This weekend Philadelphia was host to its first BarCamp event. For the uninitiated, BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants (wikipedia link here). Barcamp is described as an “unconference”, with the sessions being a lot more casual and more like conversations than presentations. [...]

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