Sensis API Hackathon
Nov 24After weeks and weeks of preparation – the Sensis API hackathon last weekend was a great success!
I was speaking with Richie from Taboo and Sean from Cocoaheads about how it would be awesome to tap into Melbourne thriving mobile development scene – and with the help of Sensis, the hackathon was the perfect outlet to let developers battle it out in a much heated platform battle!
Overall, we produced some great apps by the end of the weekend, Sensis has written up about each app and their team here http://developers.sensis.com.au/blog
Since I was judging the end results, I couldnt compete which was a bummer – instead I thought i’d hack together a quick live blog and try to keep it updated during the day.
Just turns out I’ve been out of blogging for so long, I was struggling to think of anything interesting to write. Here is the archive of the live blog – this won’t be up live for much longer, probably another month or two
http://dev.jamesgiang.com/sapihack/
Finally just a thank you for everyone that got involved – as the organiser of the Android Australia User Group, its great to see so many Android devs come out to spend a weekend in the basement grinding some code :)
End of a challenge
Jul 28I challenged myself to start continuously blogging again – but I realize I forgot to set an end date.
Recently watched a TED talk by Matt Cutts on trying something new every 30 days.
I’ve nearly been continously blogging for 30 days, so I think I’ll set myself up for another challenge next month.
And of course… blog about it! (duh, that’s a given)
Going Home
Jul 17For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home. ”
Vincent Freeman – Gattaca
Had a relapse session last night thinking about studying Gattaca back in year 12. Long story short, I ended up watching the movie at 4am- love it!
Addicted to Google+
Jul 14I can’t believe it’s already been 2 weeks since I got my Google+ invite.
I’m already starting to feel like life without G+ would leave a slight social void in my life.
For today’s blog, I thought I would share some observations based on my experiences with Google+
Note: If you are not on G+ yet – drop me a message/comment/DM and I’ll send you an invite.
