October 2008
15 posts
“[Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski] drove into Epic’s parking lot in a red...”
– Tim Bissell, New Yorker Magazine
AjaxWorld Expo - Day Three
Finished up the AjaxWorld conference today. Great presentation from Yehuda Katz on some advanced jQuery techniques. An attendee in the audience actually stopped the presentation midway through and maligned him for having too much code. Technical content at a technology conference?!? How dare he! Once that unpleasantness passed, Yehuda went on to point out a very useful jQuery plugin called...
Yodil - A (very) simple microblog
In a few hours, I will be giving a presentation on Appcelerator and it’s integration point with Google App Engine. The example code we will be working with is hosted in my Google Code repository. Please check it out and give a holler if you have any questions.
AjaxWorld - Day Two
Another day down at AjaxWorld - two good presentations on JavaScript today. Douglas Crockford gave a talk about the good parts of JavaScript. There’s a man with a compilcated (dysfunctional?) love/hate relationship with JavaScript. I think I heard him say at one point “I wish I could quit you!”…
Mike G gave an interesting talk about JavaScript as well - a particularly...
“My advice is to man up and learn it.”
– Doug Crockford, on learning JavaScript.
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AjaxWorld - Day One
So today was day one at the AjaxWorld RIA Conference and Expo, and my first face-to-face meeting with Nolan Wright, Martin Robinson, Matt Quinlan, and other members of the extended Appcelerator family. Very nice to meet all of you, and it was fun hanging out with everyone around our booth and the conference.
Turnout is a bit down from the NYC event I attended earlier, but the prevailing wisdom...
Free up Windows XP disk space →
I was hard up for space on my tiny 10GB WIndows XP partition, so I started snooping around for ways to scare up some free space. This video was very useful - I ended up reclaiming about a gig and a half by following the instructions here.
Events
As a technical evangelist and person who enjoys the sound of my own voice, I might be attending or speaking at an event near you:
10/13/2008 - Twin Cities Java User Group
10/15/2008 - Get Rich Quick - Zend Framework and Appcelerator Webinar
10/20/2008 through 10/22/2008 - AJAX World West
12/1/2008 - SpringOne
Projects
I am currently involved in a number of software development and other projects:
A comprehensive guide to Appcelerator entitled “Appcelerator In Action”
Contributing to the Appcelerator SDK, utilities, and documentation
Developing the Recess Student Information System though my small software development company, LightRail Systems, LLC
Developing a role based resource security...
About Me
Kevin Whinnery is currently an Engineer and Platform Evangelist for Appcelerator, developers of the Titanium platform for building native desktop and mobile applications with web technologies. Kevin is also the author of a number of open source projects (ranging widely in usefulness), and a minor entrepreneur in his own right. in his most recent entrepreneurial ventures, Kevin has developed SIS...
Revving Google App Engine
I just received word that I’ll be speaking at the AJAX World Conference in San Jose later this month. That will also mark my first visit to Appcelerator company HQ in Mountain View - exciting stuff! Maybe I’ll see you there?
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery