Tomorrow, for the February meeting, we will be having a Google Chrome Extensions Hack Night from 7-9PM at the Medicom Digital offices in downtown Minneapolis.  Chrome extensions are based on HTML and Javascript, so if you can build a website, you can build an extension.  Be sure to bring along your laptop and some ideas for interesting Chrome extensions.  We will use the first 90 minutes for hacking followed by a quick show and tell portion where everyone can demo what they worked on.

RSVP HERE: http://tcgtug0210.eventbrite.com/

Below are some videos and websites from the most recent TC-GTUG theater night that provide a basic overview of Chrome Extensions and how to write one:

Google Chrome Extensions - http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/

 Google Chrome Extensions: Launch Event (part 1) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK5VZ71qMIY

Google Chrome Extensions: Launch Event (part 2) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGc4XBc9P9c

Google Chrome Extensions: Launch Event (part 3) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGVkVQN63Yc

Google Chrome Extensions: Launch Event (part 4) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W7c9g—yBY

Google Chrome Extensions: Launch Event (part 5) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQpo22NN438

Google Chrome Extensions: Launch Event (part 6) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kGeyMkhFdQ

Google Chrome Extensions: How to build an extension - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3McMaHvlBY

Google Chrome Extensions: Developing and Debugging - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0nMv_NI1s

Google Chrome Extensions: Security - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO-nzPqhdXw

Google Chrome Extensions: Identity, Signing and Auto Update- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkfs8-uRTE

 

We will be having a meeting TOMORROW December 1, 2009 from 7-9PM at the Medicom Digital offices in downtown Minneapolis. 

We will be doing a roundtable discussion on Google Wave and everyone can demo what they have discovered with Wave and discuss potential uses of Wave technology.  This meeting will be an open discussion, but we will try to keep focused around the following key topics:

• What is Google Wave?
• What uses are there for Google Wave?
• What are the current strengths and weaknesses of the Google Wave?
• How does one develop for Wave?
• What has already been developed for Wave?

 Unfortunately, Medicom won’t be able to sponsor pizza this month, but there had been discussion about chipping in for pizza.  In order to judge pizza interest, I’ve added two types of tickets to the RSVP system for “w/ pizza and w/o pizza”.  If you want pizza, you will need to contribute $5 to cover pizza costs.
 
Topic:                    Google Wave (Demos and Roundtable Discussion)
Date:                     Tuesday December 1, 2009 (Tomorrow!)
Time:                     7PM-9PM
Location:                Medicom Digital
                             212 Third Ave. North Suite #295
                             Minneapolis, MN 55401
Google Map:           http://bit.ly/7vfq5
 
RSVP HERE: http://tcgtug1209.eventbrite.com/
 

We had a good turnout last night.  Dan Frankowski and Max Harper gave and enthusiastic presentation on using Google App Engine to host thier Minneapolis based startup application.  Dan [at blueshiftlab.com] and Max [at blueshiftlab.com] are both super smart and gave a good, realistic talk about the pros and cons of hosting an application on Google App Engine.

They were gracious enough to share thier slides here: http://blog.blueshiftlab.com/2009/11/intro-to-google-app-engine-tc-gtug.html.  Be sure to sign up at http://www.blueshiftlab.com/ for announcements (especially when their new desision helper app is released in the upcoming weeks).

Twin Cities Google Technology Users:

 

We will be talking about AppEngine during our November meeting next week!  Dan Frankowski will be presenting a high level overview of AppEngine, how to get started working with it, and will provide a demo of an AppEngine app.  NOTE: The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday instead of the usual first Tuesday due to conflicts with Election Day.

 

Topic:              Google AppEngine Overview 

Presenter:          Dan Frankowski, Blue Shift

Date:                     WEDNESDAY November 4, 2009

Time:                     7PM – 9PM

Location:              Medicom Digital

                                212 Third Ave. North Suite #295

                                Minneapolis, MN 55401

Google Map:      http://bit.ly/7vfq5

Please RSVP here: http://tcgtug1109.eventbrite.com/

 

 Pizza and sodas will be provided courtesy of Medicom Digital!

 

Please forward this email on to others who might be interested in attending.

 

Thanks!

 

Corey

Take the survey here :https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=tvopohjTf6QYWGmYW3HZZ2g

If you know someone who could talk about either topic in
depth, please have them contact me.  If we can’t find an expert in the
area, we can divide up the presentation and everyone can do a little
research on a specific angle and come and present what they found.

Next Meeting:

Topic:                    Google Chrome

Date:                     October 6, 2009

Time:                     7PM - 9PM

Location:              Medicom Digital

                                212 Third Ave. North

Suite #295

                                Minneapolis, MN 55401

Google Map:      http://bit.ly/7vfq5

Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities

TC-GTUG is looking for corporate sponsors to provide food/drinks for
upcoming meetings.  For the price of pizza and drinks (usually under
$100), you get 10 minutes of time at the meeting to talk about your
company and products.  Contact me if you are interested.

Here’s a quick recap of what happened at the September meeting:

For the September meeting, we invited Justin Grammens, the owner of
Localtone Interactive to present a deep dive into Google Android.
Justin went through a thorough presentation and presented the code for a
simple demo Android application that loaded the tc-gtug.org website, RSS
feed, and the RSS feed from our Google Group in a tabbed layout.  We
reviewed the code and actually submitted and published the application
into the Android Market during the meeting.

Slides from the presentation:
http://cloud.github.com/downloads/justingrammens/tcgtug/Android_TCGUG.pdf

Source code from the TC-GTUG demo:
http://github.com/justingrammens/tcgtug/tree/master

As we wrapped up the Android materials, we discussed plans for future
meetings and decided to dive into Google Chrome in October and AppEngine
in November.  If you know someone who could talk about either topic in
depth, please have them contact me.  If we can’t find an expert in the
area, we can divide up the presentation and everyone can do a little
research on a specific angle and come and present what they found.

Next Meeting:

Topic:                    Google Chrome

Date:                     October 6, 2009

Time:                     7PM - 9PM

Location:              Medicom Digital

                                212 Third Ave. North

Suite #295

                                Minneapolis, MN 55401

Google Map:      http://bit.ly/7vfq5

Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities

TC-GTUG is looking for corporate sponsors to provide food/drinks for
upcoming meetings.  For the price of pizza and drinks (usually under
$100), you get 10 minutes of time at the meeting to talk about your
company and products.  Contact me if you are interested.

Thanks everyone!

Corey

We have settled on 2nd Moon Coffee Cafe as the meeting place for our first one.

We are planning our first meeting for June 30th, 7PM. Here is a map of currently interested people. Send me an email if you would like your marker added to this.