Day 2
Hacking CouchDB
- Benefits – Version Control, scalibility, ease of use.
- Discussion on scalibility and why Erlang distributing requests makes this faster, and where the master index is held. Chris Williams, you’ve used this before, your knowledge would have been good here! You should consider using this as an example in your concurrency talk.
iPhone Dev
- StateMachine is Key – http://smc.sourceforge.net/
- Example Used “going out”
- Thing to-do before moving forward with Development
- Get to know Objective-C
- Get to know object lifespans – iPhone does not have garbage collection
- Uses SQLite3 DB to locally store data
- Queries are contained within plists
- nill is the literal value 0
- Memory leaks should be eliminated – there is a tool in the SDK to do this
Flex Talk – I know nothing about this….so this is very basic info
- Flex is all front end – uses flash9 engine to generate flash (SWF) code.
- 3D examples (Sandy 3D, Away#D, PaperVision)
- Flex versus Flash – Flex is programatic, Flash is more timeline based
- Good book – Learning Flex 3
- Good Site – flexonrails.net
My Own Discoveries
- Google’s Chart API – http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
- Inserting as an image:
alt="Sample chart" />
- Animated Visualization – http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/annotatedtimeline.html
- Piwik – http://piwik.org/demo/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=1&period=day&date=yesterday
- Embedding Google Analytics Charts into Websites – http://www.ashleyandken.com/2008/10/12/google-test
Ashley and Ken Henderson iPhone Interface
