Democamp Toronto 17 is absolutely another great event again! More than 300 people have attended.
Only want to highlight two here:
Joey Devilla had a very detail post on the schedules, please check it out here. I believe he will post some more tonight soon.
Check out the official site of Democamp Toronto too: http://democamp.info/
2. Adobe Flex 3.0 and Air 1.0
Finally, its On – Flex 3.0 and Adobe AIR 1.0 Are Here!
3. Haxies updated! It works on Leopard!
Haxies – Love it or hate it!
In computing, a Haxie is a term which was coined by developer Unsanity to describe their products. It is a blend of “hack” and “Mac OS X”. Unsanity uses it to refer to “hacks” that are specifically designed for use with its Application Enhancer (APE) software. These are typically small interface and functionality tweaks to the system or existing applications by injecting code into programs as they load.
Until yesterday, all the haxies which come from Unsanity or other companies didn’t work on Leopard, all of them. It is a real pain for somebody who loves these little, cute and useful hack tools, such as me.
After several months hard work, the development team in Unsanity finally bring them back to Leopard today: Enthusiastic Trepidation!
Here are some of them what I use all the time:
WindowShade X. It minimizes your windows on desktop, or shades them.
FontCard. It shows a WYSIWYG font menu for your applications.
FruitMenu. It helps you easily access everything from your menu.
Menu Master. It helps you to create shortcut keys for any menu items of any your applications.
Big day today, by all means!
Sometime life is very frustrating at the beginning of you presentation. You have some awesome slides in your computer, after you connect to a projector, nothing happened. Pull off and plug in again, still nothing happened. Suddenly the room becomes very quite and everybody is looking at you. 
You may start to look at your laptop keyboard and try to find the magic keys which can help you out. But which one is the right one?
Here is a picture what I have taken at the beginning of a presentation today in PodCamp Toronto. This is the best projector standby screen I have ever seen!
It simply tell you which keys can help you share your screen with projector:
Pretty cool!
I am using iPhoto to manage all my pictures as I don’t think I am a photographer or a shutterbug in any way. And iPhoto does have all the features what I really need. So I didn’t pay any attention on Aperture before.
One of my friend was coming to me and asked a question about Aperture 2.0 today. He said he was trying it in another day, but it crashed all the time when he want to export pictures out, even click “Export” preference tab would crash too.
This is really unusual for a software which is came from Apple. 
Before ask google, I did a quick look on his log file. Interestingly, before crashing there was one line said something about color pickers. So I opened his ~/Library/ColorPickers and found he has installed pretty much every color pickers what I have mentioned in another post – “Choose your right colors on Mac is not easy – My Mac Serial 1“.
Simply moving color pickers out really solved the Aperture crashing problem. So it is the issue resource then.
Well, we still need some color pickers, right? I put every color pickers back one by one and found “RCWebColorPicker” is the one who breaks Aperture this time.
Anyway, here are some more information:
* Drag and drop folders and files.
* Edit highlighted source files.
* Upload multiple files.
What’s XPToronto?
The XPToronto/Agile Users Group is a dedicated community of software development specialists located in the Toronto, Canada area. The members of XPToronto are committed to the acceptance of Agile development methodologies, such as Extreme Programming, Scrum and many others.
We usually have discussion meetings on the third Tuesday of every month, except for the months of July and August when we break for the summer. From “Previous Presentations” page you can find a lot of Agile experts and book authors. Such as:
Yesterday’s meeting is about “Agile Requirements and Planning Using Stories”, presented by Lawrence Ludlow who is current leading the XPToronto community.
Lawrence gave a presentation that he developed in the past to introduce new clients to agile development and how Intelliware approach project scoping and plannin. There was a lot of information and experience sharing.
Anyway, if you missed the workshop, there is one quote from Mr. Ludlow you shouldn’t miss:
How to do Agile planning?
- Make it work
- Make it right
- Make it faster
Want to know more: