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Patrick Chanezon about Platforms and Software Development

 

Entries from March 2009

Playing with the new Google Friend Connect Javascript API

March 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments

In the past 3 weeks, since we have released the Google Friend Connect Javascript API, I have been playing Friend Connect it a bit more: the Javascript APIs let you add social features to your site without requiring the use of gadgets. Ask the user to join the site, then you have access to the […]

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How a Platform based on Open Web standards makes sense during an economic downturn

March 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

This morning I gave a keynote at the EDC | 2009 Developers Relation Conference called: Google Developer Program: How a Platform based on Open Web standards makes sense during an economic downturn. Since the audience was full of people who do slideware all year long for a living, I though slides would bore them (and […]

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Teaching Open Source wiki

March 4th, 2009 · No Comments

The Teaching Open Source wiki “serves as a neutral collaboration point for everyone involved in Teaching Open Source”: this is an excellent initiative. Resource about learning Open Source development are scattered in various places and communities and I hope that this wiki will grow into a useful central repository. They are using MediaWiki for the […]

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Real time video processing in javascript

March 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

2 weeks ago I discovered the Adobe Pixel bender Air application: I thought it was really impressive, and that it was cool that you could use it from Javascript through Flash 10, but I was yearning for an open web equivalent and thought it would take a while before we could do that on top […]

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