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June 1, 2009
[ ] dorkbotlondon #61
/|\ The summer season of dork is here
/ \
When:
7pm, 4th June 2009
Where:
The boxing club, Limehouse town hall, E14 7HA
For directions and instructions for getting in to the building go here:
http://dorkbotlondon.org/event/dorkbotlondon61/
Featuring presentations from the well-combed and frisky...
* RJDJ - Chris McCormick
(Pure data on the iphone)
* sketchPatch - Davide Della Casa
(an online programming playground based on Processing, somewhere to
experiment with code, reuse and collaborate on existing code, share
and learn)
* Orbiter - an interactive sound environment - Vera-Maria Glahn & Marcus Wendt
(Process of an interactive installation using generative sound and
visuals and stereo motion tracking - from idea to play)
Plus! Opendorks. If you'd like to give a 7 minute ad-hoc
presentation about something then drop us a mail or let us know on the
night. Or if you'd like to give a longer presentation drop us a mail
and we'll schedule you for a future dork.
May 22, 2009
Here are some programmy things I have been exploring recently.
google-mobwrite is a framework for synchronising human edited text. It all integrates nicely with web pages through Javascript and the HTML textarea element (also other elements too), and also on the server side there are Python and other implementations of the protocol, including a ready-to-launch app-engine version. Very nice. I have implemented a very basic etherpad clone called txtfish using mobwrite.
processingjs.org is a basic Javascript and canvas element port of some of the Java-based proce55ing multimedia language/framework, magically called into being by the ultimate Javascript ninja, John Resig. This is cool because with the speedup in modern Javascript engines, it demonstrates the possible death of flash in the not too distant future, if we're lucky. Another cool and vaguely similar project is Raphael, although I haven't tried it yet myself.
May 17, 2009
This screenshot is as far as I got during the latest GameJam, which has been running in my home town, Perth. I joined remotely from here in London, but unfortunately I just didn't manage to squeeze in the time to make the game I was hoping to. I did manage to advance the MinimalistPlatformer codebase quite a bit further than it was towards the larger platformer game I have cooking away in the back of my mind though, so that's quite positive. Hopefully I'll get some more time to continue this work, and maybe even produce some binaries of my GameJam entry at some point.
May 8, 2009
Woooooooooooooooo, I am pretty excited that my talk has been accepted for EuroPython 2009! It's in Birmingham, UK, at the end of June. My talk is called "RjDj + Python = Reality morph for the iPhone" and is about how we've used Python at RjDj to break out of the iPhone jail[1], somewhat.
There are a ton of really fascinating talks happening, and every one of the keynote speakers is a tech luminary. I am especially excited about seeing both Professor Sir Tony Hoare, and Cory Doctorow speak.
Good times!
[1] Note that I am an independent contractor and my views do not reflect those of Reality Jockey Ltd. :)