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Gingerbread season 2009: Theme Sci-Fi

The tradition continues, this year focus was on Sci-Fi:

GTUG STHLM

Yesterday it was a GTUG meeting on Stockholm. GTUG is the acronym for Google Technology User Group and is not affiliated with Google in any more way that that the users are interested in the technology that Google provides.

Yesterday was my first meeting and the only reason I ever knew that there was such a thing as GTUG was that Peter Svensson (@psvensson) was at an earlier GeekMeet and sponsored with some beer. An excellent attitude that ofcourse made me curious, and some googling and linkedining later we were in contact.

This was the third GTUG in stockholm and I believe we where around 40 persons or so, the second meeting was attended by 90 heads and I don’t even want to think of how many of those that had no clue what was going on at the screen because it was rather crowded already at 40 visitors. Not to mention the bad seatings!

The bad seating was compensated by really interesting speakers. We got an in-the-middle-of-dev perspective of a cool app that will make the android device a complete MIDI-controler and some technical implications for that, for example, it’s not possible to set-up an adhoc wifi between computer and phone or that the bluetooth lacked a decent API.

After that presentation we was shown a rather fancy idea regarding augmented reality. This is a topic that is starting to get ahead of the sci-fi scene and I’m soo thrilled to be in the middle of it. Poor our parents that only got the transistor, the TV and the internet. :)

So far there was a total absence of real code so my back started to itching like hell because of the bad chairs, but we got saved by a demonstration of Dojo gfx (or whatever the package is called). Very fancy stuff could be done with pure javascript and if I got it right the Dojo toolkit will use the best way to render the graphic depending on the browser. It even renders as vectors when applicable.

I remember I did a comparison between Ext and Dojo three or four years ago. Ext won because the documentation was better (ie. it existed). According to information I recieved yesterday the Dojo documentation is running up fast these days.

It’s very much mentionable that the GTUG will set of a Android Hackathon in the very near future. It’s on a saturday and I think everyone with an interest in developing on the Android plattform will get a huge jumpstart by visiting.

I have an iPhone application at the appstore

Swedish Regents since Gustav Vasa is approved and published on Apple Appstore. Check out the Swedish Regents page.

One charger suits all cell phones?

Dreams can come through. Today it was announced that a rather impressive list of cellphone manufactures has a agreed on standardizing the cell charger.
“The initial group of companies who have joined the GSMA’s UCS initiative include 3 Group, AT&T, KTF, LG, mobilkom austria, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor, Telstra, T-Mobile and Vodafone.

As a mac-taliban it’s hard to see that Apple is not in the list and I wont put my money on them, but good things can happen!

Source: GSM World

ActiveSynch between your iPhone and Google account.

Breaking News!

I was just told that you can synch your iPhone with your google account using activesynch now!!!!

http://www.google.com/sync/iphone.html

Is your website working on a mobile?

W3C has a new service, the mobileOk site. Try it out. http://validator.w3.org/mobile/

Gingerbread house – 2008

Gingerbread house 2008

See all pictures here!

Someone should register the Geek Meet STHLM group at LinkedIn

I started doing it but though it would be more correct if any of the organizers registered a new group at Linked In, so all we cool geeks that hangs around Robert Nyman’s Geek Meet now and then can find each other easier.

link: The best top-ten list over top-ten lists

When all top-tens topics are covered there’s only a top-10 list over top-10 lists left.

Lifehacker has one (Most Popular Top 10’s of 2008):