GTUG Meetup on Google Apps Script: A Review.

This meeting on 6 October 2010 was primarily about Google Apps Script by Martin Omander, Developer Advocate at Google.

After a greeting by Van Riper, lead organizer of the Silicon Valley GTUG Meetup Group, the following initial announcements were made.

1. Bess Ho gave out the discount code for Paypal X Innovate conference; also mentioned games design, Oct 12.
2. Kevin Nilson talked about the upcoming Silicon Valley Code Camp, October 9-10. 
3. Wesley Chun, the chief organizer of the Google tracks in the camp, briefed the audience on what is to come in those tracks.

The main talk began by showing the home page of Google Apps Script:
Subsequently, Martin went through examples of different functions created by Google and others in the Script Gallery, e.g., =weather(), =getTweets(). He also went through a simple mail merge example.

HTML5 Overview Meetup in Silicon Valley: A Review.

HTML5 Overview by Robin Zimmerman, Product Manager, Kaazing Corporation, September 28, 2010

As is usual in the IT industry, a single phrase or concept (or an acronym) means different things to different people and HTML5 is no different. Robin presented a section by WHATWG group that produces a clear distinction among the following:

1. Features that are considered part of the next generation of HTML beyond HTML5 ...
2. Features that are part of HTML (and this specification) but that are currently published as separate specifications ...
3. Features that are not currently in this document that were in the past considered part of HTML5, or that were never part of HTML5 but have been referred to as part of HTML5 in the media ...