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TechHui Meta Contest

Aloha TechHuians. As part of our initiative to grow the TechHui community, we are announcing what is, to our knowledge, the world's first meta-contest. This is a contest to come up with a clever contest :-) The winner of the meta-contest will have their choice of two months of free top level sponsorship (see the Sponsors area to the right) on the TechHui site, a $998 value, or the new… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on December 15, 2009 at 1:30pm — 43 Comments

Office 2010 Beta VS Office 2007

Not too sure if you came across the need to keep both MS Office 2010 and 2007 or not. If you do and stuck with the same problem as me.. here is the solution.

First installed Office 2010 in a separate folder.

Choose to keep the old setup.

Proceed the installation.

After the activation and etc done.

You will most likely came across the same problem i did. Every time that you switch back and forth on both version, MS Office will try to reconfigure the… Continue

Added by Kemtis on December 13, 2009 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments

Hawaii's Feed-In Tariff: More Information Needed, Pronto - Big Backers Like Hawaii But Need Details, Economics

In my time working on the U.S. Mainland (I'm splitting time there now between SF and HNL), I've been talking to a lot of top-tier venture capitalists, energy project financiers, and investment bankers involved in green energy. After finding out that I was from Hawaii, a number of them have asked me about the state's new Feed-In Tariff. They wanted detailed information so that they could see if clean energy projects in Hawaii might pencil out. Sadly, I had to tell them that the FIT at present… Continue

Added by Alex Salkever on December 6, 2009 at 10:11am — 1 Comment

Renewable Energy Permitting

Sent to us by Jim Thompson:

There was a conference call this morning with representatives of the Hawaii Science and Technology Council, the UH Energy Policy Forum, the Farm Bureau, Senator Carol Fukunaga's Renewable Energy Sub-Group, Sun Fuels on the Big Island, and Pacific Bio-Fuel on Maui.

There was unanimous concensus to forward the attached package…

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Added by Daniel Leuck on December 3, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

TechHui Featured Techie of the Month - Darren Kimura, CEO of Sopogy and Confirmed Energy Geek

Darren T. Kimura is an energy geek. While still in college he founded his first-energy related business, a consultancy focused on helping businesses conserve power and save money. He launched that business out of a the back of a beat-up Chevy Blazer. Today, Kimura is a top executive of two of Hawaii's most prominent energy companies, …

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Added by Alex Salkever on November 30, 2009 at 8:30am — 5 Comments

Why Hawaii Technology Companies Should Consider Outsourcing Their R and D Work

Aloha,

This is to let you know that I have posted a new blog article on "Why Hawaii Technology Companies Should Consider Outsourcing Their R and D Work" which you may find of interest. Please feel free to post any comments you may have.

Leighton K. Chong

Added by Leighton K. Chong on November 20, 2009 at 12:47pm — 2 Comments

hawaii 5-0

this is old news but it's an excuse for me to post something for the 1st time.

i checked out the hawaii 5-0 awards ceremony. wall 2 wall swept it. nomura designs also took quite a bit of awards. i visited their studio for an AIGA tour with KCC and UH. A lot of the designs they showed us at their studio won awards. It was a trip to be able to see this. Also, this student from UH...something Chenen, ranked in the top five over all with his book design. It was the first time a student… Continue

Added by Derick on November 17, 2009 at 11:21am — No Comments

Framework for Developing a Statewide Innovation Plan

Posted on Behalf of the

High Technology Development Corporation From HTDC CEO

Yuka Nagashima: HTDC started working on this document in anticipation of the State's need to have a coherent implementation plan for establishing Hawaii's innovation economy last year. This document evolved as we also accommodated the needs of other economic development practitioners and industry… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on November 13, 2009 at 11:00am — 6 Comments

Google Go

I just read through the language spec and memory model for Go, Google's new language (thank you for the link Scott.) There are a lot of things l like about the language, such as its approach to concurrency, heavy use of type inference (which we also see in C# and Java 7), ruby-like array and map manipulation syntax, etc., but I'm not entirely sold on the type system. Go has no… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on November 11, 2009 at 2:00am — 21 Comments

Featured Techie: Seth Ladd, Organizer of Aloha on Rails Conference and Ruby on Rails Guru

On October 5th, the

"Aloha on Rails" Conference kicked off at the

Marriott Waikiki Hotel. The event was one of the top

Ruby on Rails regional conferences in 2009. These conferences bring together practitioners of and experts in Ruby on Rails, a software development framework that has become increasingly popular in the world of… Continue

Added by Alex Salkever on November 6, 2009 at 7:30pm — 4 Comments

Howto manage Cron Jobs and Task Queues using Google AppEngine

In the process of discovering Google AppEngine's list of available features, I recently came across Cron Jobs and Task Queues. During my fairly extensive web development carrier, these terms always seemed like far away concepts that will not likely be a part of my average web development toolkit. At first, seeing these in AppEngine reminded me of those old mainframe systems that you read about in computer science manuals. One day I had some time to actually look into… Continue

Added by Konstantin A Lukin on October 26, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

C# 4: Dynamic Types, Variance & Named Arguments

C# 4 adds some great features to what is already this language geek's favorite language. One of the overarching design goals of C# 4 is to be more dynamic. From the docs:

The major theme for C# 4.0 is dynamic programming. Increasingly, objects are “dynamic” in the sense that their structure and behavior is not captured by a static type, or at least not one that the compiler knows about when compiling your program.

Lets take a quick look at C# 4's… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on October 24, 2009 at 11:00am — 5 Comments

Community dynamics at Wikipedia: research done by the PARC - Augmented Social Cognition group

There's an interesting

post about the community dynamics of Wikipedia on the

PARC - Augmented Social Cognition site with several interesting ideas about Wikipedia and the maturation of a website community. This post concludes a four part series by summarizing work presented in a to-be-published paper by Bongwon Suh,… Continue

Added by Dan Starr on October 23, 2009 at 1:29pm — 2 Comments

The Timeless Way of Building

Just borrowed Christopher Alexander's "The Timeless Way of Building" from the library. Flipped through the book on the walk back to work. It looks great. I like the author's… Continue

Added by David Neely on October 19, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Optimizing CSS with a simple Groovy script and CssTidy

Recently I've been working on a web project that requires quite an extensive CSS markup. Keeping it all in one file became unmanageable pretty quickly, so we've designed a way to split our styles into logical subdirectories with import statements, which is quite easily done with a css

@import tag. Here is an example of what a main file might look like:

@import 'common.css'; @import 'base.css';… Continue

Added by Konstantin A Lukin on October 15, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Building a Native OS X Desktop App: First Impressions

Not content to let Pat and Sherwin have all the fun with Cocoa development, I decided to dive in today. I just finished my first application. Its a simple note organizer for personal use I built to learn about OS X desktop development. Given the fact I'm new to the entire stack including… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on October 10, 2009 at 8:30pm — 40 Comments

Vedic Math

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Vedic Mathematics (Part - 2) by Malay Biswal

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Added by Mark Cruthers on October 9, 2009 at 1:03pm — No Comments

robotic surgery

I have been interested in the subject of robotic surgery. It is really cool what can now be done with the use of robots. I wonder if this will be helpful on the Islands. Some procedures require residents to travel to other countries. This may require some form of Travel health insurance or it may be covered with current Medical… Continue

Added by Cindy Fallsen on October 8, 2009 at 4:46pm — No Comments

How Do We Best Support an Innovation Economy?

Aloha TechHui Members:

So far we have had 30 responses to the survey, which indicates considerable interest in this issue but is far short of representative of TechHui's 1300 members. If you have not done so yet, please take a few moments to fill out the TechHui survey today. We would like to report the results of the survey in a tech community meeting on 2010 Legislative initiatives next week.

Added by Leighton K. Chong on October 8, 2009 at 7:36am — No Comments

Walk Story and Get Rewarded For It!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 2, 2009

Save Money, Reduce Pollution, Conserve Water, Support the Local Economy - and Get Rewarded For It!

Honolulu, HI- It’s not everyday that someone will reward you for "walking story." But two Hawaii-based organizations have partnered up to offer local discounts and rewards to people who can reduce their electricity, gas and water usage.

Local sustainable living publication, the… Continue

Added by Kevin Vaccarello on October 2, 2009 at 2:01pm — No Comments