http://www.postneo.com what comes next? Tue, 13 May 2008 01:32:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been pretty awesome watching the homebrew UAV community discover and embrace Arduino. Back in January community leader Chris Anderson discovered and fell in love with Arduino. Today he posted information and the board design for an Arduino-powered UAV platform. Because everything is open, it's very easy ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/05/12/arduino-transforming-the-diy-uav-community This madness needs to stop! Espoo, Finland - Nokia today unveiled a trio of mobile devices that balance stunning and sophisticated looks with the latest in mobile functionality. All three devices, the Nokia 6600 fold, the Nokia 6600 slide and the Nokia 3600 slide present a smooth, minimalist design and an ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/05/04/this-whole-number-reuse-thing-has-gone-too-far I had the opportunity to meet Jürgen Scheible and Ville Tuulos, authors of the Mobile Python book at PyCon a few weeks ago. They graciously gave me a copy of their book, which is an absolutely fantastic guide to writing S60 apps in Python. It seems like every ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/03/28/python-for-s60-back-in-the-saddle I'm headed out the door to PyCon 2008. Yay! http://www.postneo.com/2008/03/13/pycon-2008 I think we're about ready for caucus results to start coming in. We're covering the Caucus results at LJWorld.com and on Twitter. Turnout is extremely heavy. So much so that they had to split one of the caucus sites in two because the venue was full. Later... How did we do it? We gained ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/02/05/covering-kansas-democratic-caucus-results Wow, the Django job market is heating up. I posted a job opening for both junior and senior-level Django developers on djangogigs just a few days ago, and it has already fallen off the front page. So I'll mention it again: We're hiring! We're growing and we have several ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/01/22/were-hiring I like to think that I'm pretty good at recognizing trends. One thing that I've been seeing a lot recently in my interactions with the newsroom is that we're no longer exchanging Excel spreadsheets, Word files, and other binary blobs via email. Instead we're sending invites to spreadsheets ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/01/07/google-apps-for-your-newsroom The 2008 DIgital Edge Award finalists were just announced, and I'm excited to see several World Company sites and projects on there as well as a couple of sites running Ellington and even the absolutely awesome Django-powered PolitiFact.com. At work we don't do what we do for awards. We do ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/12/20/2008-digital-edge-award-finalists I was reading a post on the (unofficial) Nokia Blog detailing the shortcut keys for the S60 Web Browser. I was instantly reminded of my own frustration and how often I had looked at that page of the user manual. Web Browser for S60 is easily the most powerful app ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/11/22/web-browser-for-s60-if-only-i-remembered-the-shortcut-key I was checking up on the TIGER/Line import to OpenStreetMaps earlier today and I was pleased to see that Kansas is already partially processed! I had emailed Dave the other day and he had queued Kansas up, but I was pleasantly suprised to see it partially processed already. ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/11/17/kansas-covered-by-openstreetmap My wife and I just bought a house and I've realized that there isn't any room in the budget for major gadget purposes, so I've been trying not to get too excited about things coming down the road. It's not suprising that I've been following the recently announced Nokia ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/10/17/maemo-blows-me-away-again I got pretty excited when Rafe posted a video about S60 touch on allaboutsymbian. I've been using S60 since the 3650 days and continue to love it, despite its quirks and shortcomings. There have been rumours of touch capabilities for S60 for years now, long before the announcement ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/10/16/you-had-me-until-i-saw-the-stylus I got my last issue of Business 2.0 in the mail today. As predicted they've offered to send me one month of Fortune for every two months of my remaining subscription. I've been offered "equivalent" subscriptions for cancelled publications in the past, but never at a 1:2 ratio. I might grab ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/10/02/goodbye-business-20 Every time I refresh my feed reader and see a new slick third-party app for the iPhone, I wonder to myself if a few years down the road we're going to be talking about pre-1.1.1 iPhones like we talk about Newton's today. Third party apps and unlocked iPhones are ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/10/01/newton-20 Over the weekend I added KML/GeoRSS data loading via GGeoXml to some mapping software for work. I ran in to a couple of gotchas and a couple of things that I thought were really interesting, so I thought I'd share. Getting started GGeoXml and particularly clickable polylines are relatively new features, ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/09/10/google-maps-geoxml-crash-course These days whenever I find an interesting interactive/updating flash app I tend to fire up Firebug and see where the data is coming from. Quite often there's an XML data feed somewhere that the flash app is being fed with. For example, you can get an XML feed ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/09/09/accidental-apis-nfl-edition I've been waiting for this announcement Ever since Google introduced GGeoXml to its mapping API: In our latest release (2.88) of the API, we've added "click" events to GPolyline and GPolygon, much to the enthusiasm of developers in the forum. I knew it was just a matter of time since their internal ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/09/08/google-maps-adds-clickability-to-gpolyline-and-gpolygon Today the City of Lawrence announced the operational status of a new crosswalk on 11th between New York and New Jersey. I'm a big fan of pedestrian safety, especially when it benefits kids on the way to school, but I was a little confused about the description of the ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/09/04/crosswalk-usability I've recieved an AT&T "free reminder" SMS twice now in two days. I know I'm not paying for it, but these messages amount to SMS spam to me. It may not be a big deal to most people, but for me most of the time I recieve an ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/08/28/those-annoying-att-free-reminder-smses I thought I'd pick a nit with something that Ted Leung mentioned in his response to Sam Ruby's response to Russ' original post about Java needing an overhaul. Particularly this comment about the Erlang community: This is actually 2 problems. There’s the issue with the libraries, and there’s the issue with the ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/08/26/there-is-an-erlang-community-its-just-smaller-than-youre-used-to