Hey folks,
As promised, here’s the slides for the talk that I gave with Ted Goddard, architect of ICEFaces, at Community One on June 1st this year.
Basically we created a fun demonstration app that mashes up OpenSocial’s reference implementation: Shindig and IceFaces Ajax Push technology. Basically its a chat application that uses the Activity Stream within [...]

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A bog post on code.google.com/opensocial is coming soon, but I wanted to give a shout out to my colleagues at Google who worked to produce the OpenSocial client libraries that greatly enable REST interactions with OpenSocial servers.
Why are these client libraries significant? Firstly, they provide a way to build cool server-to-server mashups with OpenSocial. This [...]

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Hello,
Just wanted to mention that I presented at the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group this previous Wednesday. If you’re wondering what this group is, it’s actually a fully independent user group that meets to discuss Google technologies ranging from anything like Google Web Toolkit, Android, Google Data Apis, AJAX apis and even Geo stuff [...]

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Hello,
After presenting at both the JSFOne conference and Rich Web Experience 08 conference earlier this month in Washington DC, I finally managed to upload my presentations to slideshare. Congrats to Jar Zimmermann and Kito Mann for running excellent conferences together!
Here’s some pix from the conference as well:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cschalk/RichWebExperienceJSFOne08
(You can see my friend and co-author, Ed Burns, [...]

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OpenSocial Templates is a new prospective feature for OpenSocial that is currently under review with runnable prototypes that you can checkout today!
Since Web page templating is a near and dear subject of mine going way back to my work with JSP and later JSF, OpenSocial Templating is a yet another neat way to separate presentation [...]

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