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3D Printing and CNC Milling services available

Aloha,

I've recently setup a 'Kitchen Counter Factory' consisting  of a Makerbot Replicator2 3D printer and a Shapeoko CNC Milling machine. Together these offer powerful prototyping capabilities. One machine to make things and  another machine to modify them. I can offer these services at a more competitive rate than from a mainland or overseas fabricator. If you need customized parts let me know at kurt6string@gmail.com and we'll see what we can make.

Added by Kurt Olsen on March 18, 2013 at 4:36pm — No Comments

Remembering 3/11

On March 11, 2011 a magnitude 9.03 earthquake rocked Japan, which resulted in a devastating 133 feet tsunami and a level 7 nuclear meltdown.

Out of this chaos good samaritans built and open sourced hardware to assist in recording radiation levels. The Make blog has an update on this project.

Remembering Japan – Contribute to a Fantastic…

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Added by Christopher Kobayashi on March 12, 2013 at 8:44pm — No Comments

Trying out Xamarin Studio 2.0 Starter Edition

Trying out Xamarin Studio 2.0 Starter Edition

Xamarin Studio is an IDE that allows developers to create iOS, Android and Mac apps using C#.  Recently Xamarin released Xamarin Studio 2.0 and along with a free Starter edition.  While the Starter edition is very limited it allows developers to see what Xamarin Studio is like and how writing Android apps using C# works.  I was hoping to create an iOS app, but it turns out a Mac is still required in order to write iOS apps even…

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Added by Douglas Ching on March 8, 2013 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

heroku cloud application platorm

New cool platform for your online application.  Allows you to scale up on-demand and run all your critical application ( web apps,etc) online using 'heroku's  Cloud Application Platform. http://www.heroku.com/how/

Added by John Sydney Yamane on March 7, 2013 at 7:19pm — No Comments

My tips and tricks to building leads!



Keys to a success leads

. choose higher priced products

. Look for products that are generating tons of pre-launch buzz

. Look for products with recurring commissions built in or cookies that are good for multiple products.

. Look for people having lauches who you'd like to meet personally or do business with

. Check your inbox (look for product buzzzz)

contact the person doing the launch and ask them for ideas... their JV blog is a good start

Give…

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Added by John Sydney Yamane on March 7, 2013 at 1:46am — No Comments

Are internships key for all students?

I've recently set myself on a mission to find company internships for as many of my HPU students as I possibly can.  While wrestling over what to put in courses of mobile, games, software engineering etc. I've come to the conclusion that students need internships the most out of anything we can offer.  Particularly in software engineering having students work on an internship and cross-over their intern work with class projects is a win-win-win :-)

 

Naturally TechHui is a…

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Added by Sam Joseph on February 28, 2013 at 1:29am — No Comments

The Sad State of State Tech

Interesting article about the woeful state of Hawaii state's IT systems.



http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hawaii-government-technology-stuck-in-time-warp-4313970.php



I must admit I'm shocked the payroll isn't computerized..



On the plus side at least the cloud and mobile platforms are much more mature than they were just a few years ago and it sounds… Continue

Added by Brian on February 27, 2013 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

The future state of messaging systems...

Gazing into the future is difficult.  It is fraught with error and generally limited by our finite experience and limited perspectives.  In spite of these obvious limitations, let’s play "what if" for a moment and pretend that we have a clue as to what might come to pass in future messaging systems.



Years ago I was at a conference in New York City.  I was gone…

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Added by Ian Gilyeat on February 27, 2013 at 5:55am — 2 Comments

March 2013 Newsletter

Aloha TechHuians,

I'm sending the March newsletter a few days early to make you aware of a number of interesting upcoming events as well as imminent committee votes on key bills that affect the Hawaii tech community.



Events



Unconferenz

March 2 from 8am-4pm at Windward Community…

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Added by Daniel Leuck on February 26, 2013 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Is Facebook's New Graph Search Engine a Danger to Google?

Facebook announced the launch of a new smart discovery engine that, for now, will focus on four areas: people, photos, places and interests.

It uses the power of your own network to give you highly personalized results for your search queries. Results will be ranked according to your friends and friends friends interactions.

Does this mean the end to Google, LinkedIn, Yelp, Foursquare and the rest?

I asked Robert Scoble if I could share…

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Added by Laura K. Kinoshita on February 12, 2013 at 9:50am — 1 Comment

The Future of MIC is at Stake: Testify Today

Posted on behalf of HTDC

HTDC is looking for your immediate support! - (Filing Deadline Monday, Feb 4th @…

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Added by Mika Leuck on February 4, 2013 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

Will Hawaii Startup Accelerators Succeed or Fail?

There's a lot of excitement around Hawaii's emerging startup accelerators.

Some people have said that Hawaii has tons of talent, all it needs is some money, others say it's the blind leading the blind.

I am out of touch with the details so I was wondering if anyone could shed light on the likely outcomes. What do you think? Will these accelerators succeed or fail?

Added by John on January 31, 2013 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments

Screen Scraping Tools for Rails Developers

Screen scraping is defined in Wikipedia as "a computer software technique of extracting information from websites. Usually, such software programs simulate human exploration of the World Wide Web by either implementing low-level Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), or embedding a fully-fledged web browser, such as…

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Added by Timothy Little on January 24, 2013 at 11:15am — No Comments

Five reasons you may want to run an apps contest

You are a nonprofit or government agency looking for a way to invigorate your staff or constituents.

At the Applications for Good San Francisco hack-a-thon, staff and constituents from goodwill worked alongside developers to create a prototype solution for constituent engagement. This led to direct contact between user, agency and producer, a great formula for any product development.

You know there is a tech community where you live, but…

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Added by Arthur J Grau on January 23, 2013 at 9:59am — No Comments

"Breakfast with the Institute"-Social Media Safety

Wake up with the Institute on January 30th for our "Breakfast with the Institute"- Social Media Safety workshop.

Protect yourself online and stay in control of the information that your share. 

Cost: $10 per person

Location: The Box Jelly

To register: www.hismti.eventbrite.com

See you there!…

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Added by Sanna Thuresson on January 18, 2013 at 3:52pm — No Comments

TechHui in 2013: 3,000 Strong and Counting

We enter the new year with over 3,000 members, a full event schedule, a newly reinvigorated blog, active job boards and plenty of great discussion about everything from…

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Added by Daniel Leuck on January 18, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments

Remote Debugging Mobile Web Apps

Remote debugging is the process of viewing & editing the code behind a website on your own computer, but from a separate device. As mobile devices and mobile browsing continues to see exponential growth, it's becoming increasingly important to test and debug your web apps via remote debugging, since there's no way to  inspect a webpage's resources on a physical mobile device. Here are a few techniques I use for testing & debugging web apps on mobile devices today.

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Added by Mike King on January 18, 2013 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

How I Learned to Love (Some) Interruptions

Interruptions are the annoying, disruptive, beeping, booping constant of our lives -- phones ringing; notifications buzzing; bosses, coworkers, spouses and kids clamoring for our attention. How we react to them -- and the toll it takes on our productivity and concentration -- is a well-studied subject (see Wikipedia on…

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Added by Tzyh Ng on January 15, 2013 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Experts

I've been reading Pragmatic Thinking & Learning by Andy Hunt, which talks a lot about experts. In particular, he discusses the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, and describes experts as having "…a vast body of experience that they can tap into and apply in just the right context. … These are the modern wizards."

Maybe on a good day.

A while back, a co-worker related a story about a design class he was teaching. He showed the class some…

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Added by Nathan Dwyer on January 14, 2013 at 1:31pm — No Comments

Learn Something New in 2013

With the new year come new resolutions to become a better person. If you're into software development (or looking to get into it), you may be looking to learn something new. I do believe that one of the most important things we can do as software engineers is to explore other technologies and programming languages. Seeing other approaches gives you additional perspective when trying to approach a problem. In the past, this typically meant picking up a book and spending a few days going…

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Added by George Lee on January 7, 2013 at 5:06pm — 2 Comments

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