Craig Rowe
Techlead / Developer
SXSW - Travel and First Day round up
After Car, Coach, Plane, Plane, Car we finally arrived in Austin (2 Hours ahead of Marcus and Paul - clearly we're connecting flight geniuses). A quick jaunt to the convention center to collect passes before the melee that was collecting them on Friday, followed by an excellent (if not slightly cliche texan?) chilli cheese burger meal with Paul and a multitude of people I've never met before (including Aral Balkan who did an excellent talk on Friday afternoon) pretty much rounded up the first day.
Sitewatcher AIR App
Blog post now up over at Boagworld discussing our first foray in to the world of Adobe AIR. Would be great to hear any feedback, both on the app and the article itself. So please do let me know your thoughts.
Headscapers
You may or may not know that I recently created an aggregated feed for people from #theBarn. This can be seen over at cargowire.net/theBarn. If you are of the persuasion you can also consume this in a variety of formats. These include HTML, XML and RSS (as does most of this site in fact). I may add more in the future... but let's be honest it's probably only me viewing it as HTML at the moment anyway. Let alone anything or anyone else.
Seasonal Branding?
Ok, I admit it this is a repost of something I commented on about 2 years ago on my old blog, but still...
Developer Day 7
Back from Developer Day! and once again inspired to code. It's a great day for getting you excited about technology and web development even if you don't necessarily bring away specific techniques that you want to try out. So here's a breakdown of the talks I went to:
Wordle
Late night recommendations have led me to Wordle, an app that will create word clouds based upon text, feeds or tags. So obviously I immediately chose a long standing interesting blog to test it with... rather than self satisfyingly submitting my own article feed... Ok, so here's the cloud of my article feed:
Brightkite
Unnecessary info? you got it Now you can see where I am by using my little brightkite/google maps universe pinpointer thingy (it's under the menu over there). Additionally I've added to my RESTlessness with the '.rss' extension on my articles list if you fancy a quick subscribe. The most recent article discusses the issues surrounding Caching API request calls.
RSS
RESTless ? The beginnings of the delicious article have been started over in articles. To coincide with this I've reorganised my url structure a bit so that now an extension of '.xml' will return the data in xml format. I'll eventually add to this (the sneaky of those among you may find that I'm already using '.ajax' for my ajax calls - to identify that a partial should be returned).
I've followed the current 'hip trend' of adding a twitter feed to my site (see upper right if you've not noticed it yet) and added the 1st draft of my date formatting article (I say first draft because I kinda rushed it this morning before heading out for the weekend). I'll probably return to it to polish and add some more explanation.
