Meeting updates - Week 3
For next week’s meeting (Thursday, September 17th), please sign up at
http://chicago-gtug3.eventbrite.com/
Tonight - September 10, 2009, 5:30 pm, 2262 SEL
Android Development Basics Hands on Session
Hands on session to cover the basics of how to develop and Android
App.
- The SDK components
- Layouts and widgets
- Intents
- Storing data with preferences
- Content providers (?)
- Reading the sensors (?)
I will assume that you are bringing a computer with the Android SDK already
setup. http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r3/installing.html
By the way, I am going to be looking for help to develop a little game. I
want to create an augmented reality pong (playable between two devices). I
will use this as an example for a presentation that I will be doing October
6 at the Motodev Summit, and the code will be open source (nice for the
resume), and you will receive credit for your collaboration on all
documentation, support sites, presentations, etc.
I could use some help with the math (vector and space calculations),
networking, etc. If you think you might be interested on helping, please
stop by this presentation. I will dedicate a bit of time to the idea.
See you there!
Roberto
Tomorrow - Friday, September 11th, 5:00 pm, 2262 SEL
Linux Users Group (LUG) meeting
Tomorrow - Friday, September 11th, 6:00 pm, 2262 SEL
ACM Movie Night - Sneakers
This Weekend - Saturday September 12th, 2:00 pm until ???, 2262 SEL
ACM LAN Party
Bring your box to play your favorite games, or just drop by th have some fun.
$10 for unregistered non-members
$5 for members and people who register
Register on www.acmlanparty.com
Monday, September 14th, 5:30 pm, 2262 SEL
SIG-Code first meeting
We’re beginning our training for the ICPC (Intercontinental Programming Contest). If you’re curious, or want to join a team, please come. If you just have general questions about code, or want to demonstrate something neat you found out, we’ll discuss that as well.
Wednsday, September 17th, 5:30 pm, 2262 SEL
SIG-Game meeting
Two weeks have passed, are your tasks done?
Evaluating where we’re at, setting milestones, and reassigning tasks.
If you’re new, check out the getting started page under https://acm.cs.uic.edu/trac/siggame/, and do the tutorials so you can get involved.
Thursday, September 17, 2009 from 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Lecture Center D1 and D2
Chicago Androids and Google Technologies Usesrs Groups,
together with ACM will be hosting an event with talks on the following
topics:
Android:
- *3D on the Android Platform (Open GL-es) * by Richard Li
(Principle Staff Research Engineer, Application Research & Technology Center
(ARTC), Motorola) (40min)
- *Json, XML, and the Restful Android framework*. by Cedric
Hurst (Spantree Technology Group) and Jason Shah (Jsdf,LLC) (40min)
- *MediaFly app for Android demo* by Jason Shah (Jsdf,LLC)
- *Hacking your Android phone in 6min and overview of Cyanogen*image -
performance-centric Android image - by Manan
Gandhi (20min)
- *Catch up 101: Android App. Development, basic building Blocks* by
Roberto C. Serrano (Motorola) (40min)
Business:
- *Carson V. Conant, CEO* MediaFly.com
- “lessons learned” on starting a tech company in Chicago (15
min.)
Google Tech:
- *Zainab Aziz **The Revere
Group
*
- Google Wave (creating gadgets - in depth) (30 min)
- *Uki D. Lucas* The Revere Group
- GWT development using Social Networks (Twitter, Facebook, Google
Friend Connect) (30 min)
- *Jordan Beck **The Revere
Group
* (15 min.)
- GWT performance optimization
- *P**ek Pongpaet *HotTweeters.com
(15 min.)
- Google Earth — case study
- *Chris McAvoy*
- Monitoring and Manipulating a Google Finance Portfolio with
AppEngine:
New functionality in AppEngine allows for offline processing of
data,
moving AppEngine beyond web applications. This demonstration uses
AppEngine’s offline processing and task queues to manipulate a
Google
Finance Portfolio to win a stock picking challenge. (15 min.)
Other Tech:
- *Sean Blanton, Ph.D. *OpenMake Software
- “builds beyond Maven” building an Agile software
build/test/deploy infrastructure (15 min.)
- *Brian Maggi* IdeaMomentum.com
- UX - User Experience — case studies (15 min.
Friday, September 19th, 6:00
ACM Movie Night
There are many events going on. Get involved! Even if you can’t make the events, stop by 2262 SEL at any time.
If you need tutoring, stop by any time, and we’ll see if we can help you. If you want to make sure someone will be available, go to the tutoring page, and e-mail to one of the tutors and the mailing list.
~Get involved,
ACM President
Sean Deitz
