What are you, people? On dope?

I was wondering about where the Chat went — I used it to chat with Christine and Scott, etc. — and now I have an answer.

Here’s a brief update of Google I/O.  Lots of good content at the conference.

Day 1

• Keynote – HTML 5 (Canvas, GEO Location, Webworkers and two others I can’t think of).  Support or planned support on all browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera)  except Internet Explorer.  I remembered the two other things — how could I forget:  Video and Threading! App-Cache.
• Android Developer Challenge #2 announced.  Only 1.9 Million allocated (they previously had $5M bucks).  But everyone at the conference got a free Android Phone (HTC Dream).   Now I don’t have to replace my blackberry right away.  It’s really sweet!.
• Mobicodes (QR Codes) are hot at the conference — scanned with the camera and capable of holding 4K of data.  Used on the badges and used on the Scavenger Hunt.  Wish I realized that the codes at the session feedback were included — because they were 20 points each .
• Hooked up with the Android dev guys to talk to them about writing an app for Android  (now that I have a kick ass phone).
• After putting our lives at risk trying to get to Tommy’s Joynt, we decided to grab some Italian food closer to the hotel.  Tommy’s Joynt is probably a lunch visit (during the daytime).
• All the codenames for Android are bakery products:  Cupcake, Donut, Eclair.  I hope they serve up some Ho-Hos.  Mmmm.

Day 2

• The Lego Guy – incorporating developers into process — first devs hacked the Mindstorm and Lego freaked out — then invited them in to participate in development.  Ultrasonic sensor was the result.
• Keynote – The Google Wave – Google’s interpretation of a server/network based mechanism for collaboration.    Solves some of mails problems (like trying to figure out where you are in a thread and bringing people into the context).  Realtime editing by multiple users.  Uses OpenSocial for gadgets to integrate other sites (e.g. blogs).  Incorporates Wiki like functionality,
• Questions:  how will it integrate with Mail?  It appears that will be up to the developers to figure out.
• Android Game Development session was very crowded … probably because the Wave Programming session was following it up.  Canvas is slow for drawing sprites.  OpenGL draw_texture is the clear winner for drawing sprites.
• Wave Coding — looks like being a google apps reseller would be great if you get paid for Wave too.  Robots are hosted on AppEngine.

If you need to create a PDF there are two easy choices: 1. you can use something like CutePDF or PDFCreator.

Another (better alternative) is to use Google Apps more specifically Google Docs and export the file to a PDF. You could also use Open Office which has all the functionality of Microsoft Office for FREE! which allows you to export to a PDF.

Save the paper (and a tree) and create a PDF.