… PhD, Hudson-mobi, OpenGL : simply Android

Last days I had no time for blogging… I’m really missing it!  I’ve been working on project for my PhD and PhD itself.  It’s pretty hard to stay focused when the weather outside is almost sunny … I’m glad I have time go to the gym or biking.

During the mean time I’m glad for my participation on Hudson-mobi for android. I’ve changed layout, implement animations, workflow, class changes and I did couple of fixes inside the source code itself. Well, I don’t want to forget about app graphic design which I’ve done too.  I hope all users gonna be satisfied with look-and-feel design. It’s really excited to participate on this.  Everything gonna be published soon! Have a quick look now and here…

Yesterday I had just feeling I should open OpenGL SE implementation for Android.  Emulator is doing pretty good. 3D implementation is working pretty fast, no doubts here. Much more excited is hardware implementation on your device. (HTC Desire, Nexus One).   Here are only two images … from glass effect which is quite simple to implement using OpenGL tutorial … HERE .

Most special effects in OpenGL rely on some type of blending. Blending is used to combine the color of a given pixel that is about to be drawn with the pixel that is already on the screen. How the colors are combined is based on the alpha value of the colors, and/or the blending function that is being used. Most people think of Alpha as how opaque a material is. An alpha value of 0.0 would mean that the material is completely transparent. A value of 1.0 would be totally opaque.

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import javax.microedition.khronos.opengles.GL10;

import javax.microedition.khronos.opengles.GL11;

import android.content.Context;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;

import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;

import android.opengl.GLUtils;

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Currently code is under progress to changed to Android 2.1 because the most of Android are powered by 2.1 … so maybe next blog I’ll add sample project

Ghost photo from GeeCON

This photo has been done by NexusONE, I really love it…

GeeCON story: Czech Geek surrounded by Polish Geeks…looking for Gecko

The reason why I’m gonna describe such things  is because almost everyone is thinking I’m from Poland, which is not TRUE.  I try to quickly touch how small Czech Guy could push such things as the GeeCON is forward.

Couple years before, when  I was younger and I left M$ and start to believe in opensource and UNIX based systems that was the right time to join SUN. These days it was really different company. Short time pass and I was missing the place where I could meet my friends, discussing with them and have fun time.

The destiny stared to moving thing forward to made all my such dreams real.  I met Radek and Andrian, my Luck. I tried to find such guys here in Czech but it was impossible – much more then other issues. These guys (Radek,Adrian, Andrzej, Marcin, Adams…) were on the same line which was great !!! Really, I was so happy even more.  The most funny story rose up before the first GeeCON 1st:  I haven’t met them all any time before.  I was only negotiating about sponsor shipments having lot of hours of chats, skype calls with Radek and Adrian and others and motivate them to go, go and rock.   I had opportunity, I love Open Source and “Human Knowledge belongs to the world!”   definitely I wanted to use all these things. Then our team started grow really it was amazing lot of guys  joined us these days …

GeeCON 1st was really successful as I have seen couple of business reports and discussed its impact after, really I was very nicely surprised ( I can’t share more, you know .  We also received issue with one guy from our 1st GeeCON Team. He wanted to follow his own way and he started to do really crazy things to us, but it was funny to see his strategy.  I think it’s normal such things are normally happening.

GeeCON 2nd was really different  as we had new members in our team who didn’t know who I’m (I mean personality and involvement ).  I had lot of experiences from SUN to dealing with such international communities and even teams to achieve fruitful results.  It was definitely nice and it made me stronger again and develops me  in experiences from psychology. Sometimes we had hard time but in general we really worked as team … Guys know what I’m thinking about

I have to do really good point here.  I did mention I love opensource, which is true -> but behind any opensource must real business model exists otherwise anything is impossible. I hope all readers will agree with such statement.  You know give people all knowledge couple of them discover how to deal with and do theirs own business and than you can definitely profit from (Something similar) but knowledge how to do so is really needed.

Finally  I would like to thanks to all members of our Start GeeTeam for really HARD work you have done this year (University, Poznan, Cinema, Promotion, sponsors …etc.). GeeCON MAGIC Party was really MAGIC NIGHT in all ours live -> I really love seeing people happy !

PS:  GeeCON is much more than only this short text …  GeeCON 2010 TEAM

GeeCON 2010 Poznan is OVER … but before ?

Honestly I have to note, I’m still very tired after hard job I have done during the GeeCON 2010 (not only during the GeeCON Magic party). When I’ve been driving my car back from Poznan lot of ideas have risen up to my mind, but about this latter in future.  Let’s move back to our GeeCON2010.

The first point is I’m very glad we had it in Poznan. Poznan city is very nice and cool besides of fact little issue with traveling.  When we decide we had to deal with and in my opinion it was really great decision, thanks to all guys from Poznan we have asked to join us.

GeeCON University day handles the place at the Poznan University. I was really surprised by campus and labs and impressed by other stuff around me. Only issue has been caused by Vulcano and Trains.  In general it was my first contact with attendees… Everyone was so smart, also we discussed a lot with Waldek, Piotr and Miroslaw (He has similar name as me, only change in W-V)…

And after all everything was REAL and GeeCON 2010 has started -> It was amazing … not only for me but for all participants -> SPONSORS, Attendees, GeeCON team. We all together really ENJOY our being in POZNAN CITY! … more is coming!

GeeCON is coming = show for great speakers

I checked my GeeCON Time Widget and I have seen Great Central European conference will start in 17 days.  Last year was GeeCON great chance to meet incredible Java World Guys.  This year it gonna be even better. When you go through the speaker list you see full list of well known names.

Whole GeeCON Team is working till the end of the conference but now I have to point I’m very proud that GeeCON Ticket Price is still low.   It means  students/freelancers could come to see, talk and feel the atmosphere. It’s amazing I only hope that people don’t loose interest based on potential traveling issue.

The best way from Czech is to use a CAR, Germany has better position because of the highway.  I guess in Poznan there is Airport also.

If you have any comments/question just ask US. We help you to manage yours issue!

Android: GeeCON Time widget

Although I’ve not published official announcement about this small and very simple widget lot of people have it installed already  .  It seems to be very useful feature.  It allows you to see hours and days to official GeeCON 2010 Conference start…  Time is really running and we are closer and closer. Enjoy!

GeeCON and Google story … story of Women friendship

This message is little bit Girls oriented, I’m politely apologize for that, but Google decided to support Girl’s trip to our GeeCON Conference. Which is great for them

What does it mean ? If you are the girl who is involved in Java world! and you are thinking about to come to GeeCON you should check this LINK . There is written more about your future support. ENJoY!

Message for Guys:  Do not worry,  GeeCON has also pure UNISEX competition. It’s about filming your Trip to GeeCON 2010. The best movie, maybe movies, will be awarded by price, maybe not only by Free GeeCON Entry .  For your inspiration see …

GeeCON Guide v1.0 – check on Android Market!

Click to see animation!

Last couple days I’ve been writting GeeCON Guide for Android 1.6 and latter.  Maybe someone could have a question why we have developed application for Android. Well, answer is really simple. Android is Java and GeeCON is focused on Java technologies, so simple explantion . GeeCON Guide is providing following features :

• University Day Trainings
• Conference sessions (Day 1 and Day 2  schedules)
• Introduction of GeeCON speakers  (decription, links and theirs lectures)
• Sponsors and Media partners
• Twitter channel
• GeeCON Movies ->  Official GeeCON Movie and Movie Trip to GeeCON 2010 - you can win free ticket by taping  your own!
• About us ! – GeeCON Team

You can UPDATE your GeeCON Guide by using its feed functionality.  Just click and update -> have a look at animation above

You can stay in touhc with GeeCON and have a closer look around  GeeCON Conference in public transport, train or airpain.

Attention: GeeCON Guide is not designed for using during you are driving a car!

GeeCON Guide for Android

In few next days should be released Android application for GeeCON 2010 conference. I’ll upload that into the Android Market where anyone could download into his phone. You can take  closer look at GeeCON and be really connected with us.  I only want post the image to increase your curiosity around.  Everything other is coming soon… turn on your phones

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Let’s move GeeCON awareness forward …

just do short explanation of the post topic.

Well, this is based on my own experience from the last year when GeeCON was in its nappies (GeeCON1st – 2009).The  people around the Europe were little  skeptical to our idea about to have international Java focused conference in the Central Europe.  GeeTeam’ve been working many hours during the weeks for free.  Adrian, Radek, Me, Andrzej and others were under big pressure because we wanted to pass our 1st edition with success. Negotiations with sponsors and companies, promotion, strategy design and many other tasks  were sometimes really hard … and motivation was decreasing… I hope you can imagine what kind of stress we had during this live period. (“I spent much time in chats and motivating others to continue although I was under push too. I had only in my mind to do everything I can for GeeCON success”)

You can review our  video how we have passed but it’s definitely hard to describe atmosphere in details. It was simply amazing, incredible about these words I’m think when I want to express my feelings from GeeCON 1st.  People who have doubts they loose them they were involved by others. Not only by our Beer Certification, of course

True is during last moths I have met couple of people even in Amsterdam who have heard about GeeCON but they didn’t know about before.  So maybe we should be more focused on smart GeeCON promotion on couple of lines.  After reading Books from Spephen W. Hawking and as StarTrek fun  I’ve written article about GeeCON Planet theory and CONSpace which should be only for fun and mind stimulation but maybe it could be true.  We have created GeeCON Planet Facebook group which is an opportunity for involved people to discuss for example type of accommodation or traveling and other topics, of course.

Great moment is our promotion in Software Developer’s Magazine.

Most of questions I got during CzJUG the 1st short GeeCON promotion were about traveling to Poznan.  In this case we have been thinking about GeeCON Bus but we need involvement of other people outside the GeeCON Team. So the cheapest way of traveling is  by Car -> We have facebook group where we can handle such kind of discussions

This year we had to go over couple of issues connected with one member who left GeeTeam. I hope it’s fixed now and won’t continue in damaging GeeCON name.

If you have any question feel free to ask info@geecon.org or me over blog or our community on facebook. We have open lot of lines.

Congratulation to PODCAST success which is done by Radek and Jakub.

This year we have much more and more world known speaker’s slots  3 cinema rooms -> we are getting bigger everybody should come and see it in real and then create his opinion -> Register ( we have limited place )

next couple of weeks I plan to blog about speakers and technologies they are going to present