I'm a total sucker for new services and especially those with video, Send Friends a Video Message, I'd like to say their cool service roped me in when I learned about them from the Meebo API deal but instead it was the "personal feeling" I got from Loren (spelling?) in the videos when you sign up LOL
So is she real or just hired actress?
But I will give it a go and see what it's all about...
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Passing parameters to an HTTPService at Flex Examples: The followig example shows how you can pass parameters to an HTTPService by passing an Object in the HTTPService’s send() method. The remote ColdFusion script is a simple “hello world” type script which accepts a single parameter, “name”, and returns a single parameter, “welcomeMessage”.
(Via Flex Examples.)
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I came across two posts tonight and I decided one meant more than the other to me, Meebo Grows Up, Goes Beyond IM Roots, Launches Platform « GigaOM and Pownce : API, now since I'm on a total API kick right now and I prefer the API above other aspects more often than not anyway I found myself actually annoyed that Pownce came out with an API - I mean didn't they figure out that they lost to Twitter already?
Seriously Pownce needs a new angle - perhaps Scoble has a point,
Scobleizer: "Pownce is a better system for sharing media with your friends than Twitter or Jaiku, though. I like the UI better too, although the UI really doesn’t matter anymore. I am using a tool called ‘snitter’ to read my Twitter stuff. It’s cooler than Pownce is."
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OK so it's our show but Frank over at Gadgetguy just blogged it so I decided what the heck let's blog and digg it! Thanks Frank and glad we could finally get the iTunes issue sorted out!
read more | digg story
I talked about these folks a real long time ago and since my little town is not in the list I always found it hard to really tae part although I have done a couple of favors already.
Favorville.com is a social networking tool which provides members with the opportunity to help and be helped by others. With Favorville, members can post help requests, offer help and help grow the community. Favorville makes it easy to get in touch and build lasting connections with helpful neighbors, both in your locale or across the global village.
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Hmmm watch out folks Zoho is back on my radar, actually it never was gone but now it's certainly big time on because they have finally just launched (they shared with me weeks ago) the API for one of the coolest services I work with and that of course is Zoho Creator!
"We are pleased to announce the availability of Zoho Creator API . With this users can now build their web application in PHP, JSP, ASP, Perl or any other programming language while the data is stored in Zoho Creator.
The API opens up lot of avenues for external websites and developers to colloborate with ZohoCreator Database. Zoho Creator has both REST and RPC style API’s. It also has JavaScript Client APIs.
Zoho Creator REST APIs enables users to Add, Delete, Update and View Records. It also has support for Sharing Applications, Forms and Views. In addition there are APIs to list Applications, Forms, Fields, and Views.
Using JavaScript Client APIs users can embed Zoho Creator Forms in external websites with more options to control the style and placement of the fields."
(Via Zoho Blogs » APIs for Zoho Creator.)
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// Change me to a new number from 2 to 99
integer chan = 91;
// Don't touch these
integer glow = TRUE;
integer bounce = FALSE;
integer interpColor = TRUE;
integer interpSize = TRUE;
integer wind = FALSE;
integer followSource = FALSE;
integer followVel = FALSE;
// Choose a pattern from the following:
// PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_EXPLODE
// PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_DROP
// PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_ANGLE_CONE_EMPTY
// PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_ANGLE_CONE
// PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_ANGLE
integer pattern = PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_ANGLE_CONE;
key target = "";
float age = 4;
float minSpeed = 0;
float maxSpeed = 0;
string texture = "";
float startAlpha = 1;
float endAlpha = 1;
vector startColor = <1,1,1>;
vector endColor = <1,1,1>;
vector startSize = <.1,.1,.02>;
vector endSize = <.1,.1,.6>;
vector push = <0,0,0>;
float rate = .01;
float radius = .2;
integer count = 50;
float outerAngle = 0;
float innerAngle = PI;
vector omega = <5,5,5>;
integer flags;
updateParticles()
{
if (target == "owner") target = llGetOwner();
if (target == "self") target = llGetKey();
if (glow) flags = flags | PSYS_PART_EMISSIVE_MASK;
if (bounce) flags = flags | PSYS_PART_BOUNCE_MASK;
if (interpColor) flags = flags | PSYS_PART_INTERP_COLOR_MASK;
if (interpSize) flags = flags | PSYS_PART_INTERP_SCALE_MASK;
if (wind) flags = flags | PSYS_PART_WIND_MASK;
if (followSource) flags = flags | PSYS_PART_FOLLOW_SRC_MASK;
if (followVel) flags = flags | PSYS_PART_FOLLOW_VELOCITY_MASK;
if (target != "") flags = flags | PSYS_PART_TARGET_POS_MASK;
llParticleSystem([ PSYS_PART_MAX_AGE, age,
PSYS_PART_FLAGS, flags,
PSYS_PART_START_COLOR, startColor,
PSYS_PART_END_COLOR, endColor,
PSYS_PART_START_SCALE, startSize,
PSYS_PART_END_SCALE, endSize,
PSYS_SRC_PATTERN, pattern,
PSYS_SRC_BURST_RATE, rate,
PSYS_SRC_ACCEL, push,
PSYS_SRC_BURST_PART_COUNT, count,
PSYS_SRC_BURST_RADIUS, radius,
PSYS_SRC_BURST_SPEED_MIN, minSpeed,
PSYS_SRC_BURST_SPEED_MAX, maxSpeed,
PSYS_SRC_TARGET_KEY, target,
PSYS_SRC_INNERANGLE, innerAngle,
PSYS_SRC_OUTERANGLE, outerAngle,
PSYS_SRC_OMEGA, omega,
PSYS_SRC_TEXTURE, texture,
PSYS_PART_START_ALPHA, startAlpha,
PSYS_PART_END_ALPHA, endAlpha
]);
}
integer gIsOnline = FALSE;
key gKey = NULL_KEY;
string gName = "";
float UPDATE_INTERVAL = 5.0;
updateStatus(string s){
key k = llGetLandOwnerAt(llGetPos());
if(s=="1"){
gIsOnline = TRUE;
}else{
gIsOnline = FALSE;
}
}
key getWhom(){
if(gKey == NULL_KEY){
return llGetOwner();
}else{
return gKey;
}
}
doUpdate(){
llRequestAgentData(getWhom(),DATA_ONLINE);
}
updateName(){
llRequestAgentData(getWhom(),DATA_NAME);
}
enable(){
updateName();
doUpdate();
llSetTimerEvent(1);
llWhisper(0,"Online status display enabled.");
}
disable(){
llSetTimerEvent(0);
llSetText("Display Disabled",<1,1,1>,1);
llSetColor(<0,0,1>,ALL_SIDES);
startColor = <0,0,1>;
endColor = <0,0,1>;
updateParticles();
llWhisper(0,"Online status display disabled.");
}
default
{
state_entry()
{
llListen(chan, "", llGetOwner(), "");
enable();
llWhisper(0,"Type "+(string)chan+" ol help for a list of commands");
}
on_rez(integer n){
llResetScript();
}
dataserver(key req, string data){
if(data == "1" || data == "0"){
updateStatus(data);
}else{
gName = data;
llSetText("Getting online status for " + gName,<1,1,1>,1);
llSetColor(<0,0,1>,ALL_SIDES);
startColor = <0,0,1>;
endColor = <0,0,1>;
updateParticles();
llSetTimerEvent(UPDATE_INTERVAL);
}
}
timer(){
doUpdate();
if(gIsOnline){
llSetText(gName + " is Online, click here to contact",<1,1,1>,1);
llSetColor(<0,1,0>,ALL_SIDES);
startColor = <0,1,0>;
endColor = <0,1,0>;
updateParticles();
}else{
llSetText(gName + " is Offline, click here to send them an offline message",<1,1,1>,1);
llSetColor(<1,0,0>,ALL_SIDES);
startColor = <1,0,0>;
endColor = <1,0,0>;
updateParticles();
}
}
touch_start(integer num_detected) {
llInstantMessage(llGetOwner(), llDetectedName(0) + " is looking for you at the SAP Community Office.");
}
listen(integer number, string name, key id, string msg){
if (llGetSubString(msg, 0,0) != "o"){
return;
}
list argv = llParseString2List(msg, [" "], []);
integer argc = llGetListLength(argv);
string cmd = llToLower(llList2String(argv, 0));
if(cmd == "ol"){
string arg = llToLower(llList2String(argv, 1));
if(arg=="on"){
enable();
}else if(arg=="off"){
disable();
}else if(arg=="key"){
gKey = llList2Key(argv,2);
updateName();
}else if(arg=="me"){
gKey = NULL_KEY;
updateName();
}else if(arg=="help"){
llWhisper(0,"/"+(string)chan+" ol on - activate online status display");
llWhisper(0,"/"+(string)chan+" ol off - disable online status display");
llWhisper(0,"/"+(string)chan+" ol me - display your online status");
}
}
}
}
Starting to really enjoy the idea of Virtual Worlds in the Enterprise as 'll be able to enjoy "not" traveling for this one :-)
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sap, "second life", "virtual worlds"
Perfect video to symbolize something that happened to me during the SAP TechEd last week in Munich. The video itself if from Brian the awesome TechEd reporter.
The story goes like this, a guy comes over looking for some information on using a web service, but the only have a 6.20 system available. He was actually looking quite upset and said he had spent the past two days asking everyone he could find but no one could give him any help using an Amazon Web Service and a SAP NetWeaver system. Quite surprising since I immediately thought of 6 people I had seen at lunch 20 mins early that could not only talk to him but also show him an example.
So I took him over to the next computer I could find and we did a small little search in the SDN site specific to the blog area and back in 2005/2006 I was thinking of one that either Thomas Jung wrote or one that Raja did back then on consuming web services.
As a result the guy walked away saying "wow 1 minute and I have a perfect example, next time I go first to the community".
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Cross Posted on SDN
Thinking more about my SAP TechEd Las Vegas review, which to date is simply a large collection of blogs from other people and myself during TechEd I started to think about what my personal favorite was. My highlight event or sub event if you will during the week.
For me it had to be the "RIA Hacker Night", not because I organized it or anything but because that for me is what TechEd and the Community is all about. This year is full circle for me, my first SAP TechEd event was 2004 and it was in Munich at that event I was just a community member and I had the chance to walk on stage with Shai Agassi and be recognized. In fact I of course blogged that whole experience and you can read about it here.
I even managed to help a couple of people out while I was there with questions they had...no points but fun anyways image Brian even told me that I was alot shorter than he thought, which I thought was rather funny since he is rather tall. To be honest we had lots of fun, including one incident where DJ rightfully bowed down to one of the, how did he put it? "Masters of SDN" Gregor.
Check out a short video summary of our first SAP TechEd Second Life session, it was a huge amount of fun and we hope to expand from here!
Well here I am off on my multiple plane journey back to Germany for a couple of days of relaxing time with the family and of course more planning and arrangements for SAP TechEd '07 Munich; Las Vegas SAP TechEd '07 is now slowing moving into the background but I wanted to take a moment to share with you my "ultimate" round up of posts and information.
I mean there has been some serious blogging about what is going on as well as many a video and podcast.
All of that should keep you quite busy and Munich is just around the corner so expect even more!
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sapteched07, sap
I said I would have it ready by October 1, 2007 and technically it is however it's undergoing review and proofing right now so it's not quite yet published but I hope to have that altered and fixed here in the next week or so.
For those of you new to my blog or not familiar with this topic it's a book that I am writing about my experiences first moving to Germany, my perspective of Germans and theirs of mine that I learned within the first few months and then a collection of small tails of the reality of life in Germany as I know it.
The collection of tails covers about the first 5 years of my life there and mainly the time before I got married and settled into married life, it's purely opinion based and on my personal experiences but so far I've been told that it's an "interesting look at life between cultures" and that "[it's] too funny" so I certainly hope that everyone else will think so as well and I will post the ISBN number as well as where you can order a copy as soon as it's available.
