adobe max 2010 multiscreen award

adobe max 2010 multiscreen awards from kathryn rotondo on Vimeo.

yay! tonight we (litl channels) won the multiscreen category at the adobe max 2010 awards, presented by william shatner. it is a wonderful acknowledgement that our work in the digital home space is relevant at a time when more and more phones and set-top boxes are clamoring for attention. i hope this recognition will encourage developers to stop by our booth outside the FITC unconference in the community pavilion, learn about our platform and forthcoming tv companion product, dream up awesome channel ideas and join our open developer community to bring them to life.

Going Back to the Future at Adobe MAX 2010

This will be my 5th MAX, and by far, the busiest and most exciting. Here’s the many ways you can see me and our awesome team from litl in action during MAX 2010 in LA. My theme is Back to the Future. Read on and you’ll see why:

See you in LA from one awesome MAX!

upcoming: ria unleashed

i also have the pleasure of returning to RIA unleashed, where i’ll resume my regularly scheduled program: presenting about litlOS development with my colleague, ryan canulla.

litl lab
This lab is a great opportunity for developers interested in deploying Flash/Flex Channels on the litl platform. We’ll have a good portion of our team on hand to work directly with you, doing a live walk through of our devices, platform, FAQs and sample channel code. The sample channel code projects are ready to import into either Flash CS5 or FlashBuilder, so they’re ready-to-run. After introducing you to the devices, SDK and platform, we’ll help you code your own channels and set you up to deploy them in our Channel store!

Time: 8:30 AM – noon
Date: Thursday, November 11

i’m really looking forward to helping developers get their channel ideas off the ground.  organized by adobe’s brian rinaldi, RIA unleashed packs a lot of developer power into a completely affordable two-day conference.  if you’re local and you haven’t registered yet, what are you waiting for?

Flash on TV, 3D, Accelerometer via the Litl set top box

During a recent Seattle Flex user group I had the honor of presenting at, Adobe’s Marty Mickelson (TheFlexGuy) took some awesome photos of me demonstrating some of the amazing technology Litl is unveiling in the coming weeks!

In this photo, I am showing the new Touch and Accelerometer remote (that’s my hand holding the real thing at the Litl offices in Boston). This remote will ship with the set top box, and our SDK has been updated to receive touch and accelerometer events from it. You can see it in its open form, with the full keyboard and special Litl buttons available. The actual set top box device has a powerful chipset (not mobile) to support everything Flash can do, including 3D:

This is me playing a multiplayer, 3D game prototype (based on Away3D’s Mario example) with the prestigious Nate Beck. We are both controlling Litl channel content with our own Android devices through the Litl AIR-based Simulator. You will be able to build Acceleroemter based Flash games for the TV with our SDK and Simulator. The Android control feature will let you build and test games without the device:

You can get early access to this technology by signing up here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YLFTTXX

Be sure to visit us at the FITC Unconference at MAX where Litl is sponsoring free beer.
See me or anyone from the Litl team for a full demo of the new technology and device.
The new SDK will be available for public download at MAX.
We are working on contests, incentives and more exciting details for MAX.
Can’t wait to see you in LA later this month with some awesome technology!

upcoming: adobe max

i’m really looking forward to the end of this month, when i’ll be travelling to adobe max in LA. litl is sponsoring the beer at the FITC unconference, where i’ll be presenting the following session:

Get a Second Opinion with Code Review
Code review is an essential tool for effective teams, with many benefits. Code review helps teams adhere to a coding style, ensures that there are always two people who understand every commit, and encourages developers to continually learn from each other’s code. When we know that colleagues will see our work, we are extra motivated to commit only clean, polished code. And, naturally, review offers a valuable opportunity to catch coding errors before the patch is merged into the repository.

In this talk we will discuss how to get started with code review. We’ll look at the code review tool that Google uses to ensure quality in its products, to gain a better understanding of how to implement constructive code reviews. Topics will include automating emails to a list of reviewers, and using a web interface to have inline dialog about specific lines of code.

By the end of this session you’ll have inspiration and information to get started with this programming best practice. Combine with Brian Connatser’s session Be committed to Version Control.  Learn Git. to supercharge your team.

Time: 4:00 PM
Date: Tuesday October 26
Room: FITC Unconference Room

this subject is close to my heart because i’ve worked at places with terrible code review practices, where “review” amounted to a group critique of someone’s classes midway-through or at the end of a project, and all too often devolved into style squabbles. bad! if your code reviews are suffering from a similar illness, or you haven’t been taking your daily dose of code review at all (gasp!), come to my session for an Rx.

big boys and their litl toys

peter elst gave a presentation about developing for litlOS at FOTB yesterday, and his slides are great. wish i could have been there, glad kevin suttle was on hand to represent.

of course, small boys, and girls of all sizes, are also welcome to develop for litlOS!