Monthly Archives: June 2012

Rich Boakes

June 27, 2012

Watching #googleio - What's new in Maps API.  Really liking the Geodesic polylines with symbols at (API Programmable) offsets.  Huge potential for simplifying visualisation of human-centric datasets.

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Rich Boakes

June 26, 2012

Some useful insight for the noobie, and reassurance for the old hack.

Michael Mahemoff originally shared this post:

I began writing this blog post a year ago. Finally hit the publish button today…covering this at #HNLondon  tomorrow night and figured tomorrow wouldn't be the best day to publish anything at all :) .

Patterns of Developer Experience

Welcome to Mahemoff's blog on web development, UX, and software development. I most recently worked in developer relations at Google, focusing on Chrome and HTML5, and am now busy baking a few apps in…

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Rich Boakes

June 21, 2012

Overheard in Westminster
"Doctors going on strike could be the worst PR day imaginable for us.  Leak something man: anything.  Just make sure its controversial and misunderstood.   What's that?  Education reform?  Damn you're good!  That'll have every public sector unionist in uproar and we can deny it all next week."

#uk #gov #education #gp #strike #gooddaytoburybadnews #politics  

'Tougher' exams to replace GCSEs

Education Secretary Michael Gove plans to scrap GSCEs for England and return to O-level-style exams, the BBC understands.

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Rich Boakes

June 20, 2012

All the oldest videos I had on Google Video have now migrated to YouTube.  This is the worst.  The Sun | Netscape Alliance Know How corporate "motivational" tune.

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Rich Boakes

June 19, 2012

Redmond go head-to-head with Apple in a market already dominated by the Cupertino concern.

Remember: #zune can't happen twice.

#surface #surfacetablet #microsoft #apple #ipad  

Surface by Microsoft

A tablet that's a unique expression of entertainment and creativity. A tablet that works and plays the way you want. A new type of computing. Surface.

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Rich Boakes

June 15, 2012

#geug12  Useful Chrome extension Scraper – extract data from web pages and post to a Google Spreadsheet. 

Scraper

Scraper is a Google Chrome extension for getting data out of web pages and into spreadsheets.

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Rich Boakes

June 15, 2012

+Tony Hirst is currently presenting and discussing one of my favourite tools in the world Google Refine.  I think  was the only other person in the room who'd used it, so if you're interested to know more, find me at lunch and I can show how I've used it to analyse student work and generate an overview of class progress for formative feedback. #googlerefine   #geug12

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Rich Boakes

June 15, 2012

Apps Script – best kept secret* of Google Apps

*(which is not a secret) #geug12  

Google Apps Script — Google Developers

User Guide · Getting Started · Writing Scripts · Common Tasks · Events and Triggers · Versions · Libraries · User Interfaces · Using GUI Builder · Security · Troubleshooting · Default Services · Base …

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In these times of financial hardship, it's not obvious why the BBC (which is publicly funded) has…

In these times of financial hardship, it's not obvious why the BBC (which is publicly funded) has spent $185,000 registering a vanity gTLD that they don't need.  There is also a recurring annual fee of $25,000.  There may be a reason, but it's not leaping out at me.  +BBC Click any clues?

Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings | ICANN New gTLDs

Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings. ICANN developed the New generic Top-Level Domain Program to increase competition and choice by introducing new gTLDs into the Internet's address…

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An #appletv SDK would be interesting.  A small box with HDMI out; maybe if the 'hidden' Bluetooth…

An #appletv SDK would be interesting.  A small box with HDMI out; maybe if the 'hidden' Bluetooth capability is un-crippled it could be a challenger to machines like the Raspberry Pi in the home.

Apple Reportedly Set to Open Up Apple TV to Third-Party Developers at WWDC

Following up on its report from last week claiming that Apple will show off the operating system for its future television set product at next…

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Privacy quiz: A postman records a GPS trace of their daily round.  The trace shows routes in and …

Privacy quiz: A postman records a GPS trace of their daily round.  The trace shows routes in and out of private residences, as well as dates and times that items have been delivered (or not delivered).  Has the postman committed a crime under European or US law?

#geolocation #dataprotection #privacy #gps

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Here is Peter. Here is Jane. Here is iPad. See iPad run. Run iPad run! Here is Google Plus. See G…

Here is Peter.
Here is Jane.
Here is iPad.
See iPad run.
Run iPad run!

Here is Google Plus.
See Google Plus run.
See Google Plus on iPad.

Peter is typing.
Peter cannot find delete.
Peter keeps pressing p instead.

"Look, Pixels!" says Jane.
See pixels on Google Plus on iPad.
These are very large pixels.

Here is the AppStore.
Facebook is loading.

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+Chris Bristow makes a good point about Google Blockly's code generation capabilities.  Blockly g…

+Chris Bristow makes a good point about Google Blockly's code generation capabilities.  Blockly generates fairly nice code…  so it'll work for explaining program structure, but the Maze object in this example does over-complicate things a bit with all that text.
#blockly #programming #elearning  

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