SF Rails Meetup - Developing for Google Glass (in Rails)
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Agenda
7:00 Food/Beer/Networking
7:30 Intros/Host/Every Day Carry
7:45 Talk 1: Developing for Google Glass in Rails (ThirstLabs)
8:15 Talk 2: 3D Visual Effects with CSS3/jQuery
9:00 End
Main Talk: Developing for Google Glass in Rails
Han Kang and Kunal Modi from ThirstLabs (http://www.thirst.co/) will provide an in-depth look at developing for Google Glass. (And by in-depth, we mean in-depth.) Just a few of the things they'll talk about include:
- Glass architecture and capabilities
• Timelines
• Subscriptions
• Attachments
• Location
• Contacts
- Rails meets Glass
• googleapiclient (official gem)
• glass-rails (our gem!!)
• pre-defined templates (ours)
- Mistakes/Gotchas
• Testing: only using the playground
• Actions and some basic UI complexities/challenges
• Super complicated templates
• Frequency in scheduling pushes
• CSS limitations
- The Future of Glass
• Our view: “twitter on steroids”
• A Legitimate rails platform: our work and others
• Network effects: what more apps will imply/enable
About the Speakers
http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/4/1/6/event_241685142.jpegHan Kang (https://twitter.com/logicalhan) is a software developer/rubyist at ThirstLabs with a penchant for cutting-edge technologies. (Obviously with his work with Glass.)
http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/4/4/8/event_241685192.jpegKunal Modi (https://twitter.com/kunal_modi) is Co-Founder and CTO of @ThirstLabs. Has an EECS major from @Cal and knows his way around Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL.
Talk 2: 3D Visual Effects with CSS3/jQuery
Oswald Campesato will provide hands-on instruction on 3D visual effects using CSS3 and jQuery. He'll start with a demo of pure CSS3 3D animation effects on a tablet and then cover some of the key concepts of CSS3 for graphics / animation.
He'll also show some CSS3/jQuery code samples that create unusual animation effects and then end by using Google Glass to highlight a CSS3 animation demo.
About the Speaker http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/d/5/7/c/event_241974652.jpegOswald Campesato is a skilled 2D/3D developer and the author of HTML5 Canvas and CSS3 Graphics Primer (http://www.amazon.com/HTML5-Canvas-CSS3-Graphics-Primer/dp/1936420341) (which he'll be raffling off a copy at the event). He works at SwiftBot (http://www.swiftbot.com/) and has worked from C/C++/Java developer to CTO. He's comfortable in 4 languages and trying to learn Japanese, and is working on his 13th book, which is also an HTML-related book.
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Additional Sponsor
http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/1/a/c/event_231717772.jpegHack Reactor (http://hackreactor.com/) is a three-month, in-person training program for driven self-motivated developers. Hack Reactor focuses on teaching the principles of software engineering and full-stack web development in Javascript via a very immersive, project-based curriculum (9a-8p, six days a week).
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