Author Archives: Ben

Building on the Open Web for the future… there isn’t an App for that.

This post is cross-posted from AppliedHTML5.com

Photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
There is an interesting article I picked up today in Fast Company that quickly and succinctly cuts to the point of what these critical moves forward on the Web mean for the future. Counter intuitive to the folks very wrapped up in the “There’s an [...]

Early Experiments with Web Sockets

This post is cross-posted from AppliedHTML5.com

Photo: z6p6tist6
Web Sockets are set to revolutionize the way the “real time web” works, today most websites use AJAX as a way to fake a real time dynamic experience… think a stream of Twitter tweets popping up relating to a current event. AJAX approaches that try to get to the [...]

Experiment: Browser Based Geolocation – HTML5 Points the Future of the Web

The adoption of HTML5 and its surrounding cast of powerful new features is going to be a huge boon to web users and points towards a very positive direction for the future of the web. From the smoother interfaces of canvas, local storage enabling offline modes for online email programs and the like seamlessly, [...]

A Hands on Post From and About Google’s Chrome OS

In order to get my feet wet with Google’s Chrome OS (in it’s current developer build state, Chromium OS properly) and test a real world workflow with this “web only” device I figured I’d put together a blog post with some photos courtesy my new DSLR never leaving the Chrome “browser” now grown up [...]

Installing Google Android for Mobile Browser Testing on Mac OS X

Browser testing is critical to any web developer, designer… really any web professional. You need to know how your users or customers are seeing your work through the multitude of browsers and devices available to them, new ones become available every day.
About a year ago I wrote a post walking you through installing the Google [...]

Embedding my first Google Wave into Wordpress!

This is a test!
Below I embedded my first Wave “Hello World… I mean Wave!”… The first of many likely… let’s see what it looks like out in public… I know many of you probably can’t see it… This is a test!
UPDATE: I believe and claimed this as the first Google Wave embed in a blog [...]

Best Buy speaks Google App Engine at Google I/O 2009

I was very excited to not just attend but be a part of Google I/O 2009, Google’s annual developer conference. A Best Buy contingent of Steve Bendt, Gary Koelling and myself as well as uber developers Curtis Thompson and Thomas Bombach made the trip and were part of the Developer Sandbox.
I/O’s Key Points
The keynotes (day [...]

Problem Solving: Get Google App Engine working on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

By default the Google App Engine SDK doesn’t run on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackelope)… You can fix it!

After a little searching I noticed neither posts about this issue nor a quick fix were top of the Google rankings… hoping to resolve that with this post and get all of us Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) users up [...]

Exploring your way into Social Media: The Presentation?

This post exists because I was asked to create a presentation of the high points of what I’ve discovered in my exploration of social media that could be conveyed to others just getting started looking at the space. I was asked to include why I was so interested to build my apps on my spare [...]

HP keeping up on their social media “Buzz” powered by spy.appspot.com!

I just received word from Pam Dearen at HP of some great launch news partially powered by spy.appspot.com!
Our new internal Digital Marketing Community Portal launched as planned on January 15. One of its top features is our “HP Buzz” — our custom version of your Spy app.
It’s truly exciting to see big business gravitating toward [...]