For the last few years I have been thinking quite a bit about how we enable more people to learn programming. As an industry, we need more programmers universally and there seems to be a huge number of people who would want to come in. Unfortunately though we can’t seem to connect the 2 sides … Continue reading “Learning Curves”
I am a little behind on my 2018 review, seeing that its almost mid Jan already. But better late than never, so here goes VR 2018 continued to be a year of tremendous education professionally. For a big part of the year I continued to work in the VR space, specifically using A-Frame and WebVR. … Continue reading “A Quick 2018 Retrospective”
2017 was an intense year of learning for me. A change of charter for the labs group I work in late last year meant we focused deeper on core technology which was exciting as a technologist. This year that list included Unity, WebVR, Blender, React, React Native, Ruby on Rails and Blockchains (specifically Ethereum). Phew! … Continue reading “2017 Retrospective”
I had a great time last week attending Oculus Connect 4. Just like last year, the keynotes were really interesting and the sessions pretty informative. Here are some quick thoughts on the whole event: Oculus Go and Santa Cruz Oculus announced two new self contained headsets: the Go, a 3DoF inexpensive ($199) headset that will … Continue reading “Notes from Oculus Connect 4”
This year has definitely been one of “return to JavaScript” for me (among other things) and its really interesting to see how far it has come. Between Cloud Functions, complex client applications using React, native app development with React Native and now even using AFrame/ThreeJS for WebVR development, I have been writing a LOT of … Continue reading “Gotchas with JavaScript Promises and Fetch”
I spent this entire week in the west coast attending North America GDG Managers’ Summit and the I/O events. I am still processing some of the conversations from the Managers’ summit and how to use them to improve GDG Philadelphia that I help run so I’ll leave that to a future blog post so this … Continue reading “Thoughts on Google IO 2017”
Another year passes by. Here is a quick summary of my professional and academic 2016. Work It was a year of a lot of change at work. The make up of the team I work in changed dramatically as we rethought how a corporate labs group should operate. I worked on 2 big projects this year, … Continue reading “2016 Retrospective”
For the last 3 days I have been at San Jose at the third official Oculus Connect conference (OC3) and its been amazing to see some of the prototypes, talk to a few developers and just learn from other folks who are charting the VR space. Its been an amazing mix of education and fun and … Continue reading “Thoughts from Oculus Connect 3”
2015 was a eventful year on a lot of fronts. Parts of it were great, and other parts not so much, but one thing it definitely wasn’t was boring. Tech: iOS with Swift was definitely the technology I worked on most this year. After some disillusionment on what Swift was trying to be last year, … Continue reading “2015 Retrospective”
One of the most commonly overlooked parts of building Android applications is touch feedback. While some views like Buttons have touch feedback built into them, thats not the case when using custom views. The Android Design Guidelines explicitly talk about the UX part of touch feedback and it was also discussed a while back on … Continue reading “Android: Implementing Touch Feedback on Views”
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