June meeting

[Derek Gathright]

Any ideas for a June meeting?  Just throwing a date out there... Monday, June 22nd?

Hillary, wanna spill your guts on all the Google IO goodness you experienced out in SF?  Google Wave?!?

Pete, can we get a recap of JSConf & some server-side JS stuff?

Steven, think you'll have access to the WebOS SDK and be able to talk about it at that point?

Anyone know much about the HTML5 storage API & care to discuss?

[TechGuyTom]

That date is fine with me but I thought we decided to go with
Wednesdays, like the 3rd Wed. of the month or something like that.

Tom

[pete]

The 24th will work for me - If that's good for the group I'll try to
have a projector with me and to demo some of http://narwhaljs.org in
action.

-pete

[Derek Gathright]

Tom, good point, forgot about that.  Does the 17th (3rd Wed) not work for anyone?  Really, just about any date later this month is fine with me.

Pete, that sounds awesome.

[Derek Gathright]

Oh, and another thing that recently came out that would be good to discuss is Mozilla's Jetpack

https://labs.mozilla.com/2009/05/introducing-jetpack-call-for-participation/

In short... it is essentially Firefox extensions you create in jQuery.  Very cool stuff.

[Steven Chau]

The issue with the WebOS is if access is granted to the general
public. I can probably talk about what the O'Reilly has already
exposed in their book. I would be interested to present on the canvas
and database tags from HTML 5.

Wed 17th works for me.

On Jun 2, 1:07 pm, Derek Gathright <drg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, and another thing that recently came out that would be good to discuss

> is Mozilla's Jetpackhttps://labs.mozilla.com/2009/05/introducing-jetpack-call-for-partici...

>
> In short... it is essentially Firefox extensions you create in jQuery.  Very
> cool stuff.
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Derek Gathright <drg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Tom, good point, forgot about that.  Does the 17th (3rd Wed) not work for
> > anyone?  Really, just about any date later this month is fine with me.
> > Pete, that sounds awesome.
>

[Twiggy]

Yes, I wanna share what I heard and tools they gave me. Mostly want to
share the Google Wave sandbox with you guys. This shiznit is amazing.
Total game-changer in my opinion.

Will also bring the Android if anyone's interested in a peek. I'm not
really into Java anymore, but it's fully loaded with developer tools
so I'm intrigued. Would still rather develop for the Pre. :) That's
probably more of a startupkc thing, though.

Hillary

On Jun 1, 4:22 pm, Derek Gathright <drg...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Derek Gathright]

Yipee, I just wrote my first Jetpack extension that mashes up Google Maps & the Sprint developer sandbox Location API.  This is so easy.  Has plenty of security holes, but that's why it is still just a v0.1 preview.  Love that it can skate past the cross-domain limitation and you can call any URL in the background.

[Derek Gathright]

Mostly want to share the Google Wave sandbox with you guys

Yeah, would love to hear about that.

[Derek Gathright]

Alrighty, so we have 3 dates thrown out there, 17th, 22nd, & 24th.  Pete is good to go on that date, and that week works better for me anyways, so I'll throw my vote in for Wed. June 24th.  Would give us a little more time to prep anyways.  

[Steven Chau]

Go with June 24th

On Jun 5, 1:23 am, Derek Gathright <drg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alrighty, so we have 3 dates thrown out there, 17th, 22nd, & 24th.  Pete is
> good to go on that date, and that week works better for me anyways, so I'll
> throw my vote in for Wed. June 24th.  Would give us a little more time to
> prep anyways.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Derek Gathright <drg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Mostly want to share the Google Wave sandbox with you guys
>
> > Yeah, would love to hear about that.
>
> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Derek Gathright <drg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Yipee, I just wrote my first Jetpack extension that mashes up Google Maps
> >> & the Sprint developer sandbox Location API.  This is so easy.  Has plenty
> >> of security holes, but that's why it is still just a v0.1 preview.  Love
> >> that it can skate past the cross-domain limitation and you can call any URL
> >> in the background.
>

[Piers Denney]

24th Works for me too.

[Derek Gathright]

I'm sure by next week I'll have plenty to talk about regarding Pre hacking.  While we've known for a while that applications developed for the Pre would be in Javascript, I personally didn't imagine that everything in "WebOS" would be written in JS (on top of a standard linux OS).  Being able to hack & modify everything in the phone from 3rd party installed apps to navigation menus to stock applications (like the Camera app) is very, very cool.  Because JS isn't a compiled language, the entire phone is "open" for whatever modifications you want to do.  Just modify, then reboot.  I've already done a few hacks to add features to the phone, and the community is working on lots of interesting ideas.

If anyone else has a Pre, or just wants to check out what is possible...

Wiki - http://predev.wikidot.com/
Discussion thread - http://forums.precentral.net/web-os-development/184378-ok-rom-comes.html

And #webos-internals on Freenode is pretty active as well.

[Derek Gathright]

Add to you calendar & spread the word.

http://kctechcal.com/events/90

[pete]

tomorrow's narwhal & jack slides: http://show.zoho.com/public/pete0/narwhal%20%26%20jack5
-pete

On Jun 18, 3:42 pm, Derek Gathright <drg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Add to you calendar & spread the word.http://kctechcal.com/events/90

>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Derek Gathright <drg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm sure by next week I'll have plenty to talk about regarding Pre hacking.
> >  While we've known for a while that applications developed for the Pre would
> > be in Javascript, I personally didn't imagine that everything in "WebOS"
> > would be written in JS (on top of a standard linux OS).  Being able to hack
> > & modify everything in the phone from 3rd party installed apps to navigation
> > menus to stock applications (like the Camera app) is very, very cool.
> >  Because JS isn't a compiled language, the entire phone is "open" for
> > whatever modifications you want to do.  Just modify, then reboot.  I've
> > already done a few hacks to add features to the phone, and the community is
> > working on lots of interesting ideas.
> > If anyone else has a Pre, or just wants to check out what is possible...

> > Wiki -http://predev.wikidot.com/

[Steven Chau]

I will be bringing my jQuery in Action book for those interested in
jQuery. Its also up for loan.