Building a Graphic Equalizer using a Netduino and SPI LED strips
This blog post covers how I put together an SPI-based LED VU meter using a Netduino. There is also a demo of the setup on a Pioneer DDJ-SX because it looks cool when the meters match up with beats.
Google+ code tricks: Upgrading to the new sign-in / upgrading scopes
I have had many folks ask me how they can do the following things: Upgrade from the traditional OAuth flows to the new one-time-code flow Authorize with just plus.login and then add additional (optional but useful) services to the user’s…
Google+ Tricks: Hacking the Sign-in button behavior
Before continuing, I want to emphasize that this is not a best practice. You should be using the Google+ Sign-in Button as intended. Signing in to an application with Google should do just that – if you sign out of…
Mirroring Android UI for screencasts and demos
Here you can see me mirroring an Android device screen on a laptop: From time to time, I need to demonstrate an Android application or concept and it’s much better to show it on a laptop or projector screen as…
Selectively rendering interactive posts
In some rare cases, it makes sense to render interactive posts selectively, falling back to the share button. For example, you might want to do this when your uses could be fickel enough to drop off when prompted to sign…
Google+ platform launch roundup
Whew! What a week! Google+ sign-in has been an exciting launch so far and we’re just getting started! If you’re new to the Google+ platform launch, you can learn more from the Google+ developers blog, Introducing Google+ Sign-in : simple…
Getting an activity ID from a Google+ Post URL
Taking the URL to a post and then determining the post ID for additional API calls is a little tricky but also fundamental for the Google+ public data API. First, you have to list activities and then search through them…
Novel uses of the Google+ button widget
I’m still learning the Google+ features for publishing but I realized how useful and simple it would be to perform various cool things using the + button. The following examples are just the tip of the iceberg for what is…
Demo of my CoCollage clone using Twilio
Just a brief video of me showing off the CoCollage clone that I created using Twilio and the Windows SDK. You can read more about the actual app and code here: TwilioCollage: Programming the AppBar with RESTful services