Thanks to everyone that came along tonight to hear my talk on Google Mapplets at the Adobe User Group. The discussion went beyond Google Maps and Mapplets, but also included Street View and other mashups and location based services. For those who are unfamiliar with Google Mapplets, they are small applications that run within Google Maps. Mapplets build upon and extend the standard functionality of Google Maps and are already being used to create some very interesting mashups. For example, you can overlay several published Mapplets from the Google Mapplet directory to get a combined view of several overlays.
Mapplets are essentially Google Gadgets (which are iGoogle widgets) that interface with the standard Google Maps API. They are hosted on Google’s servers, as opposed to a typical Google Maps application running on your server.
Mapplets provide exposure to existing mapping applications via the Google Mapplet directory, but more importantly by being used in conjunction with another Mapplet (or Mapplets) in a way that the original creator would have never thought of. If you’re working with any mapping project, I definitely encourage looking into Mapplets.
For more information visit http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/mapplets/, Google provides lots of good documentation on this topic.
Posted on August 18th, 2008 to catagory: Talks
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Due to a cancellation of one of the speakers at the Melbourne Adobe User Group meeting, I gave a quick talk on Chumby. For those that don’t already know about Chumby, it’s a wi-fi, always-on, low end consumer device that runs Linux as its operating system and Flash Lite 3.0 for it’s applications. It’s a very interesting device, and project for that matter.
Below is my virtual Chumby, you can learn more about Chumby at Chumby Industries, places like Engadget, the various Chumby blogs (see the Chumby welcome screen) and of course Google.
Posted on November 13th, 2007 to catagory: Talks
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For anyone interested in web technologies, I’ll be doing a talk tonight on Microformats at the Melbourne Adobe User Group. My talk will follow another presentation on Adobe AIR.
“After a quick discussion of the Adobe MAX Conference, a presentation will show you how you can convert HTML/Javascript, or Flash, or Flex into Adobe AIR. Afterwards an introductory presentation on Microformats.”
Find out more information.
Posted on October 18th, 2007 to catagory: Talks
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Thanks for everyone that came along to my presentation titled “Insecurity 2.0 - Securing Next Generation and Rich Internet Applications”. The feedback was excellent and the discussions were very interesting.
I’ve reworded this post to clear up some confusion.
Part of the talk covered the idea of “malicious mashups” where we explored the possibility of mashups being used for malicious purposes where we explored the idea of legitmate mashups being programatically used for unethical or criminal purposes. This is not to be confused with malicious code simply being used in mashups or AJAX/RIA applications (which is not new). With the inherent openness of the next generation web services, it’s only a matter of time before we see a mashup used for questionable purposes. It’s highly likely that these already exist, but I haven’t seen any of great note. Please contact me if you’ve come across any examples or have your own thoughts on this matter.
Posted on August 20th, 2007 to catagory: Talks
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I’ll be presenting “Overview of Adobe Apollo” to the Adobe User Group in Melbourne on Thursday 19th April 2007, you can read details about the meeting on their website.
Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications – network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach – with the strengths of desktop applications – application interactions, local resource access, personal settings, powerful functionality, and rich interactive experiences.
More information can be found at: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/.
Posted on April 13th, 2007 to catagory: Talks
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Yet another OSDC conference has come and gone. It was a great chance to meet lots of cool people and learn stuff at the same time. Again, this local event reinforces the fact of how much talent there is in our own back yard. Thanks to everyone that attended my presentation on Web Application Security, I hope to see you all at the next Melbourne OWASP meeting!
Posted on December 8th, 2006 to catagory: Talks
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Thanks to all that attended my presentation on Monitoring with Nagios at the OSDC 2005 conference. You can download the slides from “Monitoring Anything and Everything with Nagios” here.
I’ve also just uploaded my first pre-release copy of a new free eBook called “The Nagios Book”. The book walks through setting up a Nagios server from scratch. There are a few areas that need content, but it still might help some people, even in it’s current form. I will be working on the eBook and accompanying website NagiosBook.org over the next week or two. If you’re interested in Nagios, visit NagiosBook.org now and check out the pre-release version. Feel free to send me your feedback.
Posted on December 13th, 2005 to catagory: Talks
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A few people have requested this after a recent talk I presented on SEO for the Macromedia Users of Victoria.
Below is an example of an email requesting an inbound link. Keep in mind that this method isn’t as successful as picking up the phone and calling webmasters directly, however some people might still find it useful.
Subject: XYZ Wholesale Widgets Web Site
For the last month or so I have been working on the new “SomeCompany” web site and would like to let you know we have a logo and link to www.somecompany.com in a prime position on our site.
Your site is useful and a good fit for our visitors, we hope you get some traffic from it. We’re always happy to support businesses that complement ours, if you can add a link to our site the next time you update your site, we’d greatly appreciate it.
I have included the following HTML snippet for your convenience.
XYZ Widgets
You can check out our site at: http://www.xyzwidgets.com
Thanks,
Your Name
XYZ Wholesale Widgets
Posted on May 28th, 2005 to catagory: Talks
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Thanks to everyone that attended the 2005 AUUG Digital Pest Symposium, it was a great chance to network and exchange ideas.
My presentation focused on understanding and combatting Spyware. If you’re after the URL’s, here they are:
I also gave a talk on System Monitoring for Network Security using Nagios and other Open Source Tools, if you’re after the URL’s, here they are:
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!
Posted on May 28th, 2005 to catagory: Talks
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