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Monday, February 8th, 2010SV-GTUG Tonight: App Engine 1.2.5 release.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009October Meeting: App Engine 1.2.5 Coding Session Oct 7 Wed 6:00 PM
Where? Googleplex (Bldg. 43) 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Tunis Conference Room Mountain View, CA 94043
Who’s coming? Usually about 125 People
Want to attend? We will be meeting at the normal time in the usual place in October. Unlike our usual meetings, there will be no speaker in October. Instead, we will be meeting in a training room with tables and power hookups. This will be a group opportunity to do some coding for the evening while exploring the new features in the recent App Engine 1.2.5 release.
Great opportunity to rideshare!
Eclipse Day At Googleplex 2009
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Conference I recently attended.
SLIDES AND VIDEO AT:
Eclipse Day At Googleplex 2009 – Eclipsepedia.
Eclipse in the Enterprise: Lessons from Google – Terry Parker, Google & Robert Konigsberg, Google
Developing DSLs with Eclipse – Peter Friese, itemis
OSGi for Eclipse Developers – Chris Aniszczyk, EclipseSource
Developing for Android with Eclipse – Xavier Ducrohet, Google
Distributed OSGi in the Eclipse Runtime Project – Scott Lewis, EclipseSource
Deploying Successful Enterprise Tools – Joep Rottinghuis, eBay
Build and Provision: Two Sides of the Coin We Love to Hate – Ed Merks, Eclipse Modeling Framework Lead
Google Plugin for Eclipse: Not Just for Newbies Any More – Miguel Méndez, Google
My Guice Presentation
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Here’s the actual source code:
Java files
Attention is so short, I thought that there was room for a really really “KISS” dead simple presentation on Guice, so I tried to restrict it to 12 slides and a “hello world” type application. I figure if you “get” IoC, not just as a way to get “Spring” on your resume, you’ll get the basics from it and then move on to the grown up stuff.
Cell Phone Microscope
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009CellScope: Your Cell Phone Just Got a Microscope | Singularity Hub.
Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria kill millions each year and infect hundreds of millions more. Most of those infected are miles from a doctor and even farther from reliable medical equipment. This means that many go untreated, and many more may be misdiagnosed. A portable method for sampling blood in the field could literally save millions of lives. ,,,,
Renovate Your Old App With Guice — Jesse Wilson – Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group (Mountain View, CA) – Meetup.com
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009On the 2nd the Silicon Valley Google User’s Group had a presentation on Guice.
Photos
If you couldn’t make it, here’s a video of a different presentation that is of interest to those of you who are coding in Java and using or thinking of using dependency injection.
http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/
Here’s the manual:
User’s Guide
Here’s the download:
Guice 2.0 download
Cluster Computing and MapReduce – Google Videos
Friday, August 28th, 2009cluster computing mapreduce – Google Videos.
lecture 1-6
If you come to think about it, the collaboration model of threads within a machine, or shared memory between a small number of machines is not scalable.
What if you have 100,000 machines and you want to divvy up the work between them.
WARNING: This is NOT for the faint of heart, but is a bit hard core. The first part has a fairly accessable introduction to the key concepts.
Anybody interested in Google Technology?
Friday, August 28th, 2009gtug
I am trying to start a GTUG in Santa Cruz, to make it more convenient for Santa Cruz CA geeks.
(Google Technology Users Group…)
I have filled out the adoption papers with Google, and have a logo, and am waiting to hear back.
So if anybody is interested, let me know.
The Emergence of Google Wave-Etiquette
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009wave etiquette
For the original article see:
http://bobtuse.blogspot.com/2009/08/emergence-of-wave-etiquette.html
Review: Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature”
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature by Marcus du Sautoy
This book is really awesome and goes into a mathemetician’s private obsession and delight in symmetry and the drama of the pursuit of a complete catalog of all symmetry types. The Moorish tiles in the Alhambra, the packing of spheres in the 24th dimension, error detection and correction codes, all are connected.
This has about the best explanation for the math loving quasi-layman of the Monster symmetry which emerges from the depths of the 196833rd dimension.
An object with rotations for this symmetry group needs 196833 dimensions to construct….
Yes, 196,833…. (The sphere packing solution, the so called Leech lattice, and the EDECs are all there for the taking in the 24th dimension, just to give you a sense of proportion.)
Um oddly if you add one to the dimensionality IT JUST SO HAPPENS to appear as a coefficient associated with the modular function, and the NEXT ONE is can be formed with this and other dimensionalities in which it occurs by a trivial bit of arithmetic and so on. Now this function connects to Wiles proof of Fermat’s last theorem, and this symmetry is starting to show up in string theory–and essentially IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING.
(The monster group is the highest order sporadic group . It has group order, well, too long to type out.)
Well, this book was so fascinating I couldn’t put it down (and I am rereading parts of it.) Of course your mileage my differ, but I enjoyed it a lot.