March 2012
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ibjazz asked: Hi! I just bought your book but I am having trouble with following your Chapter 3-Location Services. I followed exactly as you put in your book and even copy your code in the sample code I downloaded, but it does not work with iOS 5 or version 4.3.1 of Xcode. I revised the outlets and i cannot find the reason why it is not working the first exercise. (Standard Location Service). Could you please...
February 2012
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mikejarvis-colorado asked: are you the Denver GTUG coordinator?
January 2012
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lingrothrock asked: Hello, I am using Beginning Java Google App Engine for my course on Human-Computer Interaction. Do you have code available online? Thanks, Ling
December 2011
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Snippets of Smidgens: Twilio Pusher with... →
franklovecchio:
Recently, while building out a web application for RingDNA, I ran into a couple issues regarding websockets:
1) Amazon EC2 load-balancers do not support websockets (yet). I knew this, but had never implemented a solution.
2) Twilio applications point to webservice URLs, so developing locally…
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Checking for in Native iOS Force.com apps
Today, Salesforce moved the mobile framework to GA. We’ve been using this in RingDNA since it’s first beta release at Dreamforce.
A common issue w/ large native applications (connected to a remote datasource) is the amount of UI bindings you need to code.
Objective-c doesn’t like null values all that much… If you’re building a lot of simple read-only screens,...
November 2011
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F15 News (My kids' news channel) →
Aodhan and Avery started their own news channel this week. They are calling it F15 news (F15 is the name of the park/pool we live on in Denver). Aodhan went to an Apple iMovie camp this summer. He’s handling most of the filming… Avery, no surprise, prefers to be in front of the camera. They write their own content in the morning and are filming as part of their home school project for...
October 2011
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Inspiring The Internet Of Things: A Comic Book →
cchiappone:
The Internet of Things is one of our favorite trends at RWW. When it finally becomes ubiquitous, we’ll be that hipster blog that liked IoT before it was cool. To help usher in the future, the Danish Alexandra Institute has just released a comic book called “Inspiring the Internet of Things,” which explains the benefits of networking everyday objects - as well as the ethical issues -...
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Final Chapter - Attack of the Alien...
I’m finishing the final chapter of my book this afternoon.
Yeah, not sure if this was just Halloween spirit or what… the last chapter is a cocos2D / Augmented Reality game called Attack of the Alien Jack-o-lanterns. I’m also not sure why they are alien… but, they came from somewhere to take over our human bodies.
In this chapter, we create a basic cocos2D game where...
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Facial Recognition Approaches
I’m working on the final edits for my upcoming Professional iOS 5 Augmented Reality book. I posted a few screenshots from the facial recognition tutorial chapter already. I got the kids help with that chapter. I covered two other approaches to facial recognition in the book as well, with some help from Elvis.
Chapter 12 covers three approaches to facial recognition from iOS applications...
Automatic Reference Counting in iOS 5 →
September 2011
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Play! Framework support for web sockets →
Nice work, Chris!
This pull request addresses lighthouse ticket #1071.
It adds support for Hybi10, Hixie76 and Hixie75 Websocket protocol. It also adds a default FlashPolicyHandler to seamlessly fall back to flash sockets when using https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js
Kuddos from updated websocket code https://github.com/joewalnes/webbit And FlashSocket...
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Twilio Conference
It was great to be at the first ever Twilio Conference last week. And, to be invited as a speaker (part of the keynote, no less) was even more of an honor. I’ve been working on the ringDNA product for quite some time now. We demoed the iOS (iPad) app that won the Dreamforce 2011 hackathon a few weeks prior. We had the whole audience dial into the ringDNA Smart Number and they queued up on...
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Another blog post about the DF2011 hackathon →
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Pro iOS 5 Augmented Reality - preorders
So, my book (shipping in November) is available to order now on Amazon. There are some great examples of how to build Augmented Reality applications on iOS.
For example, I walk you through:
Facebook Places Augmented Reality application
Setting up Augmented Reality for cocos2D and causing touch explosions on the screen
First person shooter (shoot some aliens) Augmented Reality application
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Force.com Hackathon →
The summary of the Dreamforce 2011 hackathon was posted yesterday. Look for the app, when I’m finished with it, at www.ringdna.com.
Snippets of Smidgens: Building an OpenVBX Twilio... →
franklovecchio:
A while back, I built an OpenVBX AMI for Isidorey: http://blog.isidorey.com/2011/06/twilio-openvbx-ami-update.html. I’m just now getting to posting the script that sets up up OpenVBX and its dependencies (though I think something changed with my MySQL silent install…it still works, just not…
August 2011
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Force.com toolkit for Twilio
Twilio is releasing the latest version of it’s Salesforce.com toolkit for Twilio today on Github. This is a toolkit that myself and Aslam Bari wrote a few years back and was in great need of a major refactoring :)
Cloudspokes will launch a series of DF related contests this week around the toolkit and I’m hoping to see it in full force at the hackathon this week. Come by and say hi...
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Force.com toolkit for iOS (oAuth identity...
I’ve been using the Force.com toolkit for iOS for a while now. Back at Appirio, we used this for many mobile projects. I’m working on a project called ringDNA in which we’re using oAuth instead of the local login to the SOAP API. What’s interesting about the toolkit, since the change to FDCServerSwitchboard from ZKSServerSwitchboard is the lack of current user information....
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Snippets of Smidgens: APIGEE API Documentation... →
franklovecchio:
Let’s talk APIGEE for a Colorado-second; it’s an awesome API tool I’ve come to love for numerous reasons — the most obvious being the ease-of-use it brings to deploying new features [and it seems like we do that quite a bit at Isidorey]. One of the things that seemed necessary, at least to…
milosorghum asked: Kyle, I was chatting with Gordon (WindRiver) the other day about various technical topics and he pointed me to Isdorey -- very intriguing idea and it looks like a sound foundation using MQtt and Cassandra. Not necessarily appropriate for my project as I am storing large CCTV-like imagery captured by edge devices and then sorting through them, probably using RIAK. But anyway, I was wondering if...