If you missed the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, you can get an update from the Seattle GDG-ers who did attend.  We will have a series of Lightening Talks that highlight the most exciting and interesting new technologies we heard about at Google I/O.

Come join us for a great community discussion.

P.S. Add your name to the comments below if you're willing to present a 5min to 15 minute talk

Our monthly GTUG meeting:

6:00: Networking & Pizza 6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology 6:30: Group Announcements 6:40: Lightning Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes) 7:00: Main Presentation 8:00: Q&A

 

We are holding the June #GDG as a social meetup. Please come prepared to share for 1 to 5 minutes what you are working on or have as a side project. Note we are meeting at SURF Incubator, doors almost directly opposite Startpad building entrance.  

 

 

 

What Makes Android Tick. Paul Danset will give a talk on Android Internals - Including key differences: Android v. Linux.

** We have very limited seating, so check out Paul's slide deck presented earlier, if the context is right for your attendance.http://goo.gl/kFIua

In late February, there were 300 million Android phones world wide and 850K new ones added each day -- just 3+ years since launch.  If this number holds, there will be over a half billion Android phones on the planet by the end of the year.  This makes Android the largest Linux "distro", by far.  Yet Android is quite a different beast from traditional Linux.  This talk will cover key differences between them as well as Android internals.Some of these differences are getting gradually bridged.  For example, the mainline Linux kernel has most of the Android-isms merged in 3.3rc*.  There are also user space efforts to getting Android and traditional Linux coexist.

Paul Danset is a Sr Software Engineer. Currently working on an Android-based mobile robot for the Seattle Robothon competition in early June.

 

Come hear Google employee Marc Cohen talk about "Predicting the Future and Other Creative Ways to use Google’s Cloud Computing Services" with code examples and live demos. Team members from Socrata will also be on-hand to discuss their platform, which powers open data sets such as data.gov, data.seattle.gov and data.wa.gov.

This FREE event is a pre-cursor to the upcoming Startup Weekend GOV but is open to everyone. (Tickets are still available to Startup Weekend for interested community members and developers: http://seattlegov.startupweekend.org)

 

 

The Open Web Platform has grown tremendously over the past few years.  Chris will present an overview of what's been going on with the HTML5 platform, with demos and discussion of some of the newer areas like WebRTC, CSS, user media capture and Web Audio.

Chris Wilson: Co-author of NCSA Mosaic for Windows v 1.0. Open standards advocate. Study in contradictions. In September of 2010, Chris left Microsoft and joined Google’s Developer Relations team, and now works on the Google Chrome project in the Google Seattle office.

NDA’s - Signed NDA's are no longer required, Yay! But you do need to be registered on the security list (appreciate updating your RSVP soonest you cannot make it) 

PARKING Please look for street parking, after 6pm free spaces open up nearby. For convenience, U-Park locations: http://www.u-parksystem.com/locations/default.asp#fremont_seattle

There is some limited Google visitor parking in the garage across the street (but it costs Google DevRel team a full days parking ticket), use this only if you have to, thanks.

Our monthly GTUG/GDG meeting:

6:00: Networking & Pizza 6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology   6:30: Group Announcements  6:40: Lightning Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes)  7:00: Main Presentation 8:00: Q&A

 

Gary Flake head of Clipboard team will talk about their service and lessons learned pushing the edge. About old browser features (such as bookmarklets), the latest capabilities of HTML5, and how they combine the two Crunching the DOM.

Clipboard conveniently clips and pastes the web to Facebook, Twitter and Clipboard. A masterful mashery of technologies, the stack is Ubuntu (on rackspace), Riak, Redis, Memcached, NodeJS (based on V8 developed by Google), and Nginx delivering a rich performant user experience. http://www.clipboard.com/

Gary's bio

Darth Vader of the Internets former Technical Fellow at Microsoft, VP Yahoo aka Dr Flakenstein http://flakenstein.net @flakenstein

 

Our monthly GTUG meeting:

6:00: Networking & Pizza 6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology 6:30: Group Announcements 6:40: Lightning Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes) 7:00: Main Presentation 8:00: Q&A

 

Google Maps with Josh Livni

Bio

Josh Livni, a Sr Developer Programs Engineer at Google 

 

Our monthly GTUG meeting:

6:00: Networking & Pizza  6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology  6:30: Group Announcements  6:40: Lightning Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes)  7:00: Main Presentation  8:00: Q&A

 

 

 

 

Abstract: Dart is a new programming language for structured web programming. The Dart project includes a language, libraries, a virtual machine, and even an IDE. It also takes a fresh look at DOM and HTML interfaces. Join Seth Ladd, a Developer Advocate with the Chrome team, as he gives a tour of Dart and its motivations.

 

Bio: Seth is a Developer Advocate with the Chrome team. He has produced Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails and Web Development Conference and New Game, the conference for HTML5 game developers. Way back, he wrote Expert Spring MVC book. More recently, he helped release Angry Birds for the web. Seth is the board for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.

 

 

Leigh Momii Developer Evangelist presents HTC Device Lab. Followed by a working session for devs to check out latest Android and WP7 devices and try your apps out on them.  

 

 

 

Chris Wilson/GoogleTV talk covers and demos v2, but also captures the overall GTV story. 

http://googletv.blogspot.com/2011/10/update...

Bio  

Co-author of NCSA Mosaic for Windows v 1.0.  IE guy for over a decade.  Open standards advocate. Tool of the Man.  Ex-Microsoftie, new Googler.  Study in contradictions. In September of 2010, Chris left Microsoft and joined Google’s Developer Relations team, and currently works on the Google TV project in the Google Seattle office.

 

 

Google+ API Talk by Will Norris with Julia Ferraioli

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/

 

Will Norris is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, working to make the web more social. He is an active participant in numerous community efforts to develop the standard protocols and formats to enable a distributed social web. Before Google, Will worked in higher education on federated identity systems using SAML and OpenID.

Julia Ferraioli is a Developer Advocate at Google, all-over-geek and robotics enthusiast.

Our monthly GTUG meeting:

6:00: Networking & Pizza  6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology  6:30: Group Announcements  6:40: Lightning Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes)  7:00: Main Presentation  8:00: Q&A

 

 

 

 

 

Stephen Smith Chief Architect Sage Business Solutions will talk about the mechanisms to live with-in the fast changing world of the Web and Business Solutions development. Learned  from experience implementing the new version of Sage ERP Accpac with GWT:

• New Event Model
• New Table Control
• Client Bundles
• Deferred Binding
• Eclipse Plug-in
• In Browser Debugging
• Better Code Generation 

Stephen Smith is Chief Architect @ Sage Software http://bit.ly/aboutSage with substantial experience designing and implementing highly scalable, high performance rich user experience web based applications. His specialities Web Based applications, SQL Performance, GWT, Java, C, Windows, Linux. Stephen's blog http://smist08.wordpress.com/

 

 

We have a special event with Steve Souders for GTUG members and Starbucks Dev Team.

 

Case studies from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Netflix, and others testify that making websites faster drives more traffic to your site, improves the user experience, increases revenue, and reduces operating costs. Best practices, tools, and web services abound for improving website performance on the desktop. But where are we when it comes to mobile performance? Join Steve Souders as he presents the latest developments for analyzing mobile performance and creating a faster mobile experience.

 

 

Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. He previously served as Chief Performance Yahoo!. Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites. He is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 Firefox add-ons. He's created many other performance tools and services including the HTTP Archive, Cuzillion, Jdrop, ControlJS, and Browserscope. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O'Reilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford University.

 

 

 

Over the past year, the web application ecosystem has been growing at an accelerating pace. Faster browsers and powerful web platforms like HTML5 have enabled developers to switch from native code to web based apps. That’s why the Google Chrome and Commerce teams are holding several HTML5 Web App hackathons around the United States in early August. This is a great opportunity for developers to socialize, network, and play with the latest web APIs. During the hackathons, we'll cover the end-to-end process of developing an HTML5 application, publicizing with Chrome Web Store, and finally monetizing with In-App Payments. In true hackathon style, participants will have the opportunity to create teams and work on a project together. At the end of the day, participants will present what they have created, and vote on the best apps or games. And of course we’ll have some awesome prizes for the winners.

Below is the itinerary for the day:

11:45-12pm - Check-in 12-1:30pm - Lunch is served & Presentation 1:30-2pm - Pitches & Team organization 2-7pm - Hacking 7-8pm - Dinner is served & Finish hacking 8-9pm - Drinks, Presentations & Voting

 

 

We have a special event for GTUG members this month; an extra meetup about using HTML5 technology for gaming applications.

Intro to Building HTML5 Games

Come learn how to get started making games with HTML5! This is an intro level talk targeted at programmers who are familiar with Javascript and HTML but have no background in games or HTML5. The talk will cover basic APIs for drawing, audio, and data storage as well as patterns for structuring effective game code in Javascript

Lilli Thompson, @lillithompson a Developer Advocate visiting us from Google/Mountain View, will be giving a special talk to the Seattle GTUG group about building HTML 5 gaming applications.

 

Abstract: Want to make great Android games, but you're not a Java programmer? This talk is for you. Android supports a toolchain for building applications in C/C++. In December 2010 it got a makeover specifically aimed at making life better for game developers. This presentation gives an introduction to Android programming in C/C++, covers what's new and improved since last year, and shows best practices for building and debugging games with the NDK.

 

Our monthly GTUG meeting: Walk-through demonstrating capabilities and how to Automate tasks across Google Products with Google Apps Script:http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/

Speaker Bio

Jim Harkins is a Seattle Area Software Developer who attended Google I/O 2010 and locally Extended I/O 2011.

 

 

If you missed the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, you can get an update from the Seattle GTUG-ers who did attend.  We will have a series of Lightening Talks that highlight the most exciting and interesting new technologies we heard about at Google I/O.

Come join us for a great community discussion.

P.S. Add your name to the comments below if you're willing to present a 5min to 15 minute talk.

 

 

Enjoy the company of your fellow Seattle developers and Googlers while watching a live remote videocast of the Google I/O conference.

This is being offered just for the first day of the Google I/O event - and seating is limited. This event is being offered in two locations - please only sign up for one of them.  If you get in, and find you cannot make it, PLEASE, release your RSVP so that someone on the waiting list can attend.

Sign up for the Kirkland Viewing Party, instead

 

 

BWO stealthy arrangements, Eric Ries is our special event speaker for Seattle GTUG (Google Technology Users’ Group). This special event, hosted by Google for GTUG members, is an incredible opportunity to hear Eric present his upcoming book, The Lean Startup, which is about entrepreneurship and startups. Entrepreneurs are everywhere. You don’t have to work in a garage to be in a startup!

OverviewGTUG welcomes @EricRies, the creator of the Lean Startup methodology. Eric is the author of the popular blog Startup Lessons Learned, and the creator of the Lean Startup methodology. He co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup, which has today has over 40 million users and 2010 revenue over $40 million. An entrepreneur in residence at Harvard Business School and a frequent speaker at business events, he advises startups on business and product strategy using the Lean Startup approach. Eric will be introducing brand new material covered in his upcoming book, including:

• Principles of the lean startup
• Learning the new style of management required for the startup institution.
• How to build startup processes that accelerate the speed through the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop.
• How to measure progress, how to setup milestones, and how to prioritize work.

 

 

Walk-through demonstrating how to make a Chrome extension from scratch - how to for beginners. Bring a laptop, it will be hands-on.

Super Bowl ads will feature the “Baby Peas,” a group of animated characters created by will.i.am that represent the Black Eyed Peas, the band slated to perform during the halftime show.

Our own speaker will.am though not related to the black eyed peas will.i.am, will take you through creation of your first Google chrome extension with light use of HTML5's local storage so you can store custom peas or digital black eyes or whatever. This how to is a minimal set of things required to make the extension.

Bio:

William Power (@wpowr) is a software developer and consultant working for Ratio Interactive in Pioneer Square. His last few projects have included the "look and feel" programing for a large Flex application, and a small contribution to a soon-to-be-released iPad app. http://www.willpower.name/

Code takeaway:

Google extensions tech talk tonite by @wpowr in bite size pieces. http://bit.ly/gefbfiles (click to get files), follow step by step url ends (1) (2) (3) etc

 

** Google's Moishe Lettvin on General Realtime Web tying into App Engine **

General "realtime web" stuff, primarily on PubSubHubbub (for server <-> server) and tying that into App Engine's Channel API for server -> client communication.

Bio: Moishe Lettvin is a software engineer at Google, and enjoys writing code and talking about writing code. Previously he was at Microsoft. He has a beautiful daughter named Amelia. And likes riding his bike and running a lot too. He blogs at http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/

 

 

We are hosting Membase meetup in Capital Hill at the Northwest Film Forum

Membase is a simple, fast, elastic NoSQL database technology that is deployed behind some of the world's busiest interactive web applications, such as those at Zynga.

Join us for an in-depth presentation and discussion of Membase technology, led by leaders and contributors of the Membase open source project. Topics include:

*Membase Overview *Use Cases and Customer Examples *Membase Architecture *Membase Demo *Developing with Membase - Key-Value Basics *Developing with Membase - NodeCode Modules

 

 

Microsoft is making a deep investment in HTML5 starting with IE9. Microsoft has been an active participant in W3C, ECMA and other standards bodies. We’ll start by drilling into the actual state of HTML5 across various specifications, what still needs to be done and the expected evolution through standard bodies. We’ll also cover the approach that Microsoft is taking with HTML5 by enabling web sites to use the full power of the PC starting with full hardware acceleration and pinned sites. This has enabled a completely new type of web experience.

Ziad Ismail is currently the Director of Product Management for Internet Explorer. He has held leadership positions in several high-tech companies from small to large companies. Prior to joining the IE team, Ziad was the Director for Windows Phone Planning at Microsoft where he worked on the reinvention of Windows Phone. Prior to Microsoft, Ziad was the founder and CEO of several start-ups including CitiKey, a pioneering mobile location based company, and Inspire Infrastructure, a search infrastructure company that was acquired by Local.com. He served in the Swedish military spending two cold winters above the Arctic circle. He has won several awards including the City of Stockholm Innovation Award, Dell MBA Case Competition, and the Cap Gemini Innovation Award. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Our monthly GTUG meeting:

6:00: Networking & Pizza 6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology 6:30: Group Announcements 6:40: Lighting Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes) 7:00: Main Presentatio

 

 

Our monthly GTUG meeting:

6:00: Networking & Pizza 6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology 6:30: Group Announcements 6:40: Lighting Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes) 7:00: Main Presentation 7:45: Q&A & Dessert

Susan Moskwa (of Google's Webmaster Central team) will discuss Google's outreach to website owners & developers, and the ways in which their interests overlap. She will walk us through some of Webmaster Tools' latest & greatest features, and leave lots of time for Q&A.

 

 

Roy Williams, who's been doing some work on Google Go will talk about the Go Programming Language.

Bio: Roy Williams is currently working as an Engineer at Google on Road Traffic and Driving Directions. Previous to Google, Roy worked at Microsoft for 5 years on Enterprise Resource Planning software, talking at several conferences about Performance. Roy received his B.Sc of Computer Science from Duke University in 2005

 

 

The Seattle.js team (Damon Cortesi, Aviel Ginzburg, Jacques Crocker, Grant Goodale) recently won the "most popular" award of the recent node.js KnockOut competition.

Their entry, Scrabb.ly, has already generated 1/2 million tiles played on the board, along with consuming countless hours of human effort, for the fun of competing to show up on the leaderboard.

Scrabb.ly is a tour-de-force of JavaScript programming (the team launched after 48 hours of programming) as well as mashing up other backend services.

Grant will tell us how they built Scrabb.ly, and what the aftermath of releasing it has been like.

 

 

Our monthly GTUG meeting:

6:00: Networking & Pizza 6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology 6:30: Group Announcements 6:40: Lighting Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes) 7:00: Main Presentation 7:45: Q&A & Dessert

 

6:00: Networking & Pizza 6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology 6:30: Group Announcements 6:40: Lighting Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes) 7:00: Main Presentation 7:45: Q&A & Dessert

 

Tonight, Johann Rocholl and Mike Koss will introduce their web application framework, Pageforest.com - a storage and document management service for JavaScript developers (open source and written on App Engine).

We'll also have a demo of Titanium from David Geller. Titanium is a cross-platform development environment targeting mobile devices (including the iPad) but using JavaScript and HTML tools. David promises to build an iPad app in 5 minutes.

 

Dan Knodle, from Iota will present FLEX - a device that allows cellular phone calls on Android consumer devices using Bluetooth.

Johann C. Rocholl and Mike Koss will reprise some info from last weekend's App Engine Bootcamp.

Johnann will talk about his domain name query site nxdom.com and describe the architecture for using App Engine's high-scale data store to rapidly query for recently expired domain names.

Since many of us are attending the Google Android Dev Lab the week before, I think it would be great to keep the momentum going by presenting the Apps we're building the following week.

Please send me your name (and what your App does, if you know already) if you'd like to participate. This is open to any GTUG member that's developed an Android application (you don't have to attend the Google Dev Lab). Be prepared to: 

• 
  
• Demo your application 
• Talk about your experience using the Android platform 
• Impart any tips or wisdom for other Android developers 

(10-15 minutes each presenter)

At the end of the night, we'll give out some SWAG to the presenters.

I'm also opening up StartPad for an Android co-working session on Sat, Feb 13 from noon to 5pm. I'll be working here on my Android application, and invite any GTUG member that wants to work from our Seattle offices to get/give some peer support in building your App (and go out for beers when we're done).

On Nov 5th, 2009, Google released a completely new JavaScript library for developing web applications called "Closure". Along with it, they also released an optimizing "compiler" (minifier+code optimizer), and a client-side template library.

Shuichi Koga (Google engineer) will give us an overview of the Closure technologies.

We're also going to be holding this meeting on the EASTSIDE - atGoogle's NEW Kirkland campus.

Agenda (approx)

6:00: Networking/Pizza 
6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology 
6:30: Lighting Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes) 
6:50: Group Announcements 
7:00: Main Presentation 
7:45: Q&A/Dessert 

Moishe Lettvin will talk about the Google Talk API, Gadgets, App Engine integration and XMPP.

Agenda:

6:00: Networking/Pizza 
6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology 
6:30: Lighting Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes) 
6:50: Group Announcements 
7:00: Main Presentation 
7:45: Q&A/Dessert

Dan Sanderson (Google Engineer) will present App Engine 101 - a quick start guide to building your first App Engine application.

His new book, Programming App Engine is due to be released on November 15, 2009.

Join us for Dan's talk and a some member-provided lightening presentations at our first full Seattle GTUG meeting!

Agenda:

6:00: Networking/Pizza 
6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology 
6:30: Lighting Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes) 
6:50: Group Announcements 
7:00: Main Presentation 
7:45: Q&A/Dessert

6:00: Networking & Pizza 6:15: Open Q&A - Ask Questions about any Google Technology 6:30: Group Announcements 6:40: Lighting Talks/Demos - (let us know in advance if you have something to show - 5 minutes) 7:00: Main Presentation 7:45: Q&A & Dessert