Pebble have published new details of the Pebble Android SDK, coinciding with their attendance of Google I/O 2012, and detailing the available Android Intents (albethey subject to change); definitely a great way to move information around, though personally I am most excited about developing apps for the device itself with the C-based SDK! □＿ヾ(･_･ )
I own a lot of O’Reilly books. It may not even be exaggerating to say that I own most recent O’Reilly releases – my eBook purchases from the past couple of years top three figures. So, it’s honestly a bit shocking to find a book that was published in August of 2011, and of interest to me, which I’ve not already snapped up in the intervening period. In this case, it took the attendance of the intriguingly-named webcast Applying Old Video Game Performance Techniques to Modern Web-based Games for me to discover Making Isometric Social Real-Time Games with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. I was so enthralled by the concepts that presenter/author Mario Andres Pagella shared in his short lecture that I not only Read More…
I’m fairly addicted to O’Reilly’s eBook Deal of the Day – apparently they weren’t content with my continual purchases and have gone and added a Video Deal of the Week! (ô_ô) In addition to the email alerts, you can keep up on the latest via the just-added O’Reilly Video Deal of the Week RSS Feed!
Following up on their recent iPad release, Spotify have shown some Android love and released a brand new app – it looks great, and more importantly can actually handle my hundreds of playlists! d^_^b
I am a massive O’Reilly fan, and a serious consumer of eBooks – but one of the greatest hassles with my ever-burgeoning collection is organizing my library and syncing it to my various devices. O’Reilly is currently beta testing a feature that allows you to sync any or all of your eBooks with your Dropbox account, in whichever format(s) you prefer; I think they chose me since I own an absurd quantity of their publications (I basically have my own personally Safari!) – so having my purchases automatically downloaded onto my desktop machine, and one click away on my NOOK Color, iPad, or phone, is huge! (♥o♥) The NOOK Simple Touch, since it lacks a Dropbox app (or any apps, without rooting) is now the only remaining device which will be seeing a USB cable any time soon!
The first Formula 1 race I ever attended was the 1987 Detroit Grand Prix, held on the streets of Detroit around the Renaissance Center. Twenty five years later, Detroit is once again host to open-wheel racing, though this time it’s the streets of Belle Isle, and the American IndyCar series rather than premier worldwide series, Formula 1. Free Prix Day is a chance to see the cars and teams up close as well as watch practice for each series and GRAND-AM qualifying – all for free!
