Technical: November 2007 Archives
Told you it's serious. Here's a video in which Google co-founder Sergey Brin introduces Android. The introduction is followed by demos of multiple applications on two prototype phones:
Last but not least, at the end of the video Brin talks again and announces the $10,000,000 developer prize.
Also, if you're interested in the architecture of the software, you may want to watch this three part video:
Last but not least, at the end of the video Brin talks again and announces the $10,000,000 developer prize.
Also, if you're interested in the architecture of the software, you may want to watch this three part video:
- Android, Part 1: Architecture Overview
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Android, Part 2: Application Life Cycle
- Android, Part 3: APIs (specially pay attention to the Location Manager and Location Based Notification)
I usually do not post technical details here, but this one seems to be a fairly common issue and took an hour of my time, so here it is hoping it saves somebody else some time...
Changing the "navigation" (or sidebar) on MediaWiki in itself is in fact pretty straight forward - if you figure out the right way to do it, which is not easy due to confusing documentation. So here's what you need to do:
For example, if you have a "To Do" page on your wiki and the page is called "To Do List" (meaning that its URL is .../index.php?title=To_Do_List), and you want to add it right after the link to Main Page, simply add this after the "mainpage" line:
** To Do List|To Do
Save and enjoy.
Now, the login as admin is important since this page (MediaWiki:Sidebar) is a special page and not editable by regular users, so if you do not login as admin you will not see the "edit" tab, and that will be confusing. If this is a shared Wiki installation that somebody else has installed and you do not have admin access, you have to ask them to do the change. If it's your Wiki but you do not remember the admin user name, go to Special:Listusers (.../index.php?title=Special:Listusers) and you will see whether you have Admin, Sysop, or something along those lines. This is the name you specified at the time of installation.
Changing the "navigation" (or sidebar) on MediaWiki in itself is in fact pretty straight forward - if you figure out the right way to do it, which is not easy due to confusing documentation. So here's what you need to do:
- Log into your MediaWiki as "Admin" or "Sysop". If you're not sure what this means, see below.
- Go to: .../index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar - for example http://www.example.com/wiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar
- You will see the content of the sidebar, or navigation links, on a Wiki page as a list with a format of Link|name like this:
- navigation
- mainpage|mainpage
- portal-url|portal
- currentevents-url|currentevents
- ...
For example, if you have a "To Do" page on your wiki and the page is called "To Do List" (meaning that its URL is .../index.php?title=To_Do_List), and you want to add it right after the link to Main Page, simply add this after the "mainpage" line:
** To Do List|To Do
Save and enjoy.
Now, the login as admin is important since this page (MediaWiki:Sidebar) is a special page and not editable by regular users, so if you do not login as admin you will not see the "edit" tab, and that will be confusing. If this is a shared Wiki installation that somebody else has installed and you do not have admin access, you have to ask them to do the change. If it's your Wiki but you do not remember the admin user name, go to Special:Listusers (.../index.php?title=Special:Listusers) and you will see whether you have Admin, Sysop, or something along those lines. This is the name you specified at the time of installation.
It's one think to talk about a new API, it's a different thing to watch actual demos. OpenSocial went live last night, and while not all platforms or "hosts" are linked yet you can see demos of what they have been busy building here. You can fast forward about the familiar marketing mambo jumbo in the beginning, yes we know OpenSocial is a good thing, and watch what the social sites as well as application developers have to show you:
The way some of these applications are tapping into the activity streams, and also the fact that the application can get separate canvas pages to have "its own" pages within, say, orkut or Ning, is really amazing. Personally I liked the Flixter and iLike demos, and also the Flixter/MySpace integration done in a few hours (last presentation) was amazing.
I feel we are at the beginning of a new online revolutions.
P.S. Obviously whoever arranged this was doing his/her best to make Facebook jealous, and in some instances like the way MySpace was brought to spotlight at the end they overstretched it a little!!
P.S.S. I lost power just as I was finishing this post - a big OH S%$&* - but I have to give it to MovableType, the AutoSave feature had saved pretty much everything I had typed including the embedded video... Thanks Guys!
The way some of these applications are tapping into the activity streams, and also the fact that the application can get separate canvas pages to have "its own" pages within, say, orkut or Ning, is really amazing. Personally I liked the Flixter and iLike demos, and also the Flixter/MySpace integration done in a few hours (last presentation) was amazing.
I feel we are at the beginning of a new online revolutions.
P.S. Obviously whoever arranged this was doing his/her best to make Facebook jealous, and in some instances like the way MySpace was brought to spotlight at the end they overstretched it a little!!
P.S.S. I lost power just as I was finishing this post - a big OH S%$&* - but I have to give it to MovableType, the AutoSave feature had saved pretty much everything I had typed including the embedded video... Thanks Guys!
