Completing Diablo III Inferno in Hardcore mode (Part 1)
I finished Diablo 3 on hardcore. It’s super hard, here is the story of my year-long saga finishing the game.
Multi-rotors, Drones, Quad-copters, oh my!
So…. I recently took the plunge into the hobby of multi-rotor robotics! I purchased a DJI Phantom (pictured during repairs): It’s an amazing piece of machinery and comes ready to fly (RTF). My first flight was a trip, I opened…
Dead simple App Engine static hosting
I have no idea why, but I have had tons of trouble finding a simple example for hosting app engine. I have been working on a client-side only site so all I wanted to do was host some static content….
Chromecast, wow!
A long time media geek’s initial thoughts on the Chromecast device from Google. I freaking love the device and was completely surprised about these things.
Installing VLC in Chrome to playback all kinds of video
Just like everybody else I know, I have tons of video in random formats that I can’t seem to get to play back in my web browser. Video LAN offers an amazing video player and its installer includes a chrome…
Sign in Best Practices: Reflecting the User
In the recent Google+ Developers Live episode: Google+ Sign-In Best Practices: Greeting the user and reflecting the profile, I showed you a few tweaks that you can make to your site’s experience to make it more engaging. This blog post…
Google+ Sign-In best practices
Joanna Smith and I gave a talk at this year’s I/O conference in San Francisco. The following video is the full presentation!
Sharing: Best practices for targeting Interactive Posts
Yesterday, Joanna and I gave a talk on best practices for the Google+ platform. We discussed just a couple subtle ways that you can make the most of the features that we’ve shipped with the Google+ Sign-In button. In this…
Passive Sharing: Writing app activities without target URLs
It is a best practice to target your shares to target pages containing Schema content but sometimes you cannot do this. For example, if you are referencing content that is not on your site or if you are writing app…
Making the most of the Google+ developer site
The curse of knowledge – knowing something and then not realizing that you have this knowledge – can make it difficult to remember the first time that you started learning about something. A great example of this is the Google…