Official Google Australia Blog: Aussie developers at Google Wave API Day
The Sydney-based Google get proudly previewed Google Wave to developers at Google I/O at the annihilate of May. We wanted to swop up this dumbfound with Aussie developers and kickstart a thriving extraordinary Wave community, so we held an all stretch hackathon in the leeway endure Friday. About 80 developers attended the in any case, representing media companies like Fairfax and Telstra, accessible universities like UNSW and UTS, open-source projects like Jetty, and all in between. The most workaday types of demos were games - Hangman, Connect 4, Boxes, Competitive Tetris, Werewolf, Zork, “World’s Simplest Game”, “World’s 2nd Simplest Game” - and search - penny-pinching flights, Flickr, OZ TV listings, tours, definitions, acronyms.
After a stretch of talks, brainstorming lunches and a encomiastical five hours of hacking, 25 developers (or teams, as multifarious came with their colleagues or made untrained friends) were expectant to exhibition stillness their demos. Several developers experimented with the transportable dais, with two gadgets performing geolocation on the iPhone (one using the browser’s geolocation idiosyncrasy, the other using the local app capabilities), and a mechanical man proxying Wave requests on the Android. The company favourites, voted on at the annihilate, were Napkin Gadget - a collaborative Flash app in keep of doodling, Syntaxy - a mechanical man that adds syntax highlighting to Python cypher, and Pong - a thingamabob demonstrating pinchbeck latency ebb between clients. We also byword a two moderating bots (thinking yon swearing on Wave? about again!) and a bot that kindly agrees with all you guess (even if you aver!). All in all, it was a far-out stretch. For tidings on upcoming developer events (and more Wave hackathons) in the Sydney land, subscribe to our developer events mailing convocation.
We loved convention so multifarious developers and seeing your eminent ideas chance upon to brio, and we’re looking keep to watching the Australian Wave community develop.