Sensing position for Augmented Reality applications
This year I attended SIGGRAPH, the largest academic conference for computer graphics research, in Los Angeles. Of particular interest to me was the Augmented and Mixed Reality session in the “Birds
Learning JavaScript: web application architecture
I’ve been talking about front end, middle tier, and back end in my previous posts. Here’s a diagram to show how the components interact with each other. Additionally, there is an example
Learning JavaScript: part II
This post continues from the last post in learning JavaScript for building web applications. I assume you now have a working knowledge of the JavaScript language. We apply our knowledge of JavaScript
Learning JavaScript: part I
Recently I spoke with several individuals wanting to build web applications. First I describe what a web application is, describe the front tier of a web application, and focus on JavaScript’s role
Designing a REST API
I am writing about how to design a REST API. I am basing my guidance from Stormpath’s presentation on July 10th, 2012. A REST API is a type of application programming interface (API) that
Running Android emulator in Eclipse
As I have been developing Android apps in using the Eclipse + Android development environment on Windows, I noticed the debugger would sometimes not connect to the emulator device. To address this problem,
Pains in web development
On Saturday July 21st I had a nice conversation with Caleb Clausen about web applications. HTML and the web was originally designed for document delivery, not interactive applications that we are using
Tim Lee of Sequoia Capital: Future of smartphone businesses
Recently Tim Lee of Sequoia Capital, a venture capitalist fund, spoke with developers at Dophin Browser’s San Francisco location about the future of smartphone companies. The current generation
Android environment setup
I have learned several things when setting up a development environment for Android on Windows. First and foremost, long path names and Windows access control may introduce issues for Java, Eclipse,
Twisted: an event-driven server for Python
[Edited August 24, 2012]
I attended an introduction to Twister, a Python asynchronous engine, on July 13, 2012, at Rackspace’s new office. This asynchronous engine is a modular library that