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Building applications for Tysons Corner

Posted February 4th by Jay Crossler in Maps, Media, Web, iPhone

I’ve been asked to build a mobile strategy and prototype for the Tysons Corner area of Northern Virginia.  One of the problems is that Tysons is (combined between Tysons I and Tysons II) one of the two largest malls in the country.  Surrounding it is the intersection of four major roads, along with dozens of [...]


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Chumby Advanced Tricks

Posted January 29th by Jay Crossler in Code, Home Automation, Life, Pugs, Web, iPhone

(check out the above Chumby tiger cover here)

(built on previous Chumby iRemote post here)
Overview
This past month, I extended the web server on my older-style Chumby to add a lot of functionality to my house. For a while, I’ve wanted to automate a number of my home systems – X10 to control our home lights [...]


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App Store for the Army

Posted January 24th by Jay Crossler in Maps, iPhone

I’ve been working on putting together an “Army App Store” to give to a few soldiers for testing. I’ve been trying to think of what apps would be best to install on SmartPhones that would have the most utility to soldiers in the field. One of the biggest misconceptions that people have is [...]


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Interview on GarageGames

Posted July 21st by Jay Crossler in FOGE, Games, Life, MoonBaseOne, Video Editing, Volunteering, Writing

An interview with me was just posted on the GarageGames website. Garage Games is the company that makes the excellent Torque Game Engine and Torque 3D that I’ve posted a number of resources for. They were extremely kind and donated free copies of there software for s to use in making games for [...]


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HTML5 Databases + Canvas

Posted June 19th by Jay Crossler in Code, Maps, Video Editing, Web, iPhone

I love HTML5! HTML5 is brand new – just available on a few browsers. The new features, especially the use of local SQL databases and canvases bring so much power to web application development. Before, things that you needed a full web server are now doable all within the browser. I [...]


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3d iPhone web apps

Posted June 18th by Jay Crossler in Code, Maps, Web, iPhone

For the third post in this series, I’ll be showing how to do some pretty advanced iPhone applications using Mobile Safari and HTML5. These should all work on the latest OS3 that came out today. What’s special about these is that they are not actual “Apps” that get loaded to your phone from [...]


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Updated FlickrProxy

Posted June 17th by Jay Crossler in Code, Maps, Web, iPhone

Thanks to a great suggestion by AbigailG, I’ve updated the Flickr Proxy I wrote to search on dates as well as tags. I’ve found this improves the quality of the images returned. Great idea, and the code is zipped up here.
You can replace the ws.php into the previous Nearly1 example and you’ll get [...]


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iPhone Geotags

Posted June 16th by Jay Crossler in Code, Maps, Web, iPhone

The new iPhone OS3.0 will be coming out soon, and one of my favorite features is updating Mobile Safari to have much better support for HTML5. HTML5 is still in draft, but basically makes HTML much smarter and more powerful – by adding features like GeoLocation, 3D-animations, Offline Storage, and more.
This is the first [...]


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Rafting Video

Posted May 26th by jaycrossler in Life, Video Editing

We went White Water Rafting this last weekend, and I thought I’d use the lack of internet in West Virginia to try to learn some video editing techniques.
I remixed the video from our White Water Rafting trip and added some effects and transitions using iMovie.  It took me a while to get used to the [...]


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NetShock.us

Posted May 23rd by jaycrossler in Class, Web

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This week, I took a ScrumMaster training couse for software production and management. Scrum is taken from the Rugby term where everyone jumps in a pile and wrestles for the ball. I really liked many of the concepts and approaches to group software artistry.
I’ve been on [...]


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Wine Making!

Posted May 17th by jaycrossler in Life, Wine

We finished our first batch of wine this week, and will hopefully start on some more soon.  Here’s a chronicle of our adventures: http://pugsfoodtravel.com/

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