Category: Awareness

C++ is the main development language used by many of Google's open-source projects. As every C++ programmer knows, the language has many powerful features, but this power brings with it complexity, which in turn can make code more bug-prone and harder to read and maintain.

The goal of this guide is to manage this complexity by describing in detail the dos and don'ts of writing C++ code. These rules exist to keep the code base manageable while still allowing coders to use C++ language features productively.

You need specify *many* options to compile native program for Android. Also, it is very hard to port software which uses the autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool etc) because different options are needed for linking shared library and program binary. To solve these problems, I developed this wrapper script for gcc and ld. With this wrapper, all needed options are automatically specified.

Eleven Dreams for Red Hook is a cinematic experience for real life, eleven soundtracks for real places, part of the wonderful Conflux Festival.

You download eleven soundtracks, a map, and photographs, then follow along, listening to an mp3 player. As you explore the neighborhood, suspended between cinematic fantasy and hyper-awareness, I hope that you will find your own mysterious, surprising and funny revelations.

Maps will be available at Conflux HQ, as well as in the download. We will meet at the corner of Beard & Otsego Streets (across from IKEA) at 5pm to spread out to do the walks. If you do not have your own mp3 player, please let me know and I will provide one for you. The dreams may be listened to in any order — the idea is for you to explore the neighborhood both sonically and visually.

3>> I found the iPhone app, Bump as a good representation of Social Activism. Bump is a swapping data (contact info, photo, etc,.) app which is simple and easy to use. It requires a physical space (or distance) to bump each other’s hands together, while holing their iPhones, also a physical action, bump. I think gently bumping hands is a familiar and positive social gesture like doing cheers on the dining table. Here is the public reviews of it.

I made some research about mobile apps for social activism, and found some good sites about apps and social activism using mobile. Here they are

The social activism space isn’t well populated for the Windows Mobile platform—there are IPhone applications for sure, and probably some good Android applications, but the best I could find for WinMo is Tag Reader. While not specifically designed for activism, it could be a really powerful technology, reducing the critical time between being made aware of a media element, and when someone can visit the website for more information.

For our Social Activism and Mobile Technology course we were assigned to review of an activism app. I thought about it a while, looked around the app store, but in the end decided that the most apt app was already present on my phone, the Obama ‘08 App. Nearly a year after the election and it still has not been deleted by me.

Created textmark “Represent” to reply back with list of state elected officials when someone texts 41411 represent & zip code.

SnapImpact is a free application that uses your current location to identify upcoming events in your area related to a myriad of socially conscious causes. Categories include:

– Animal Protection and Welfare
– Arts and Culture
– Civil/Social Action
– Disaster Relief
– Education
– Environment
– Health and Medicine
– Religion