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Google I/O 2009 – Implementing Your Own Visualization Datasource

Itai Raz, Nir Bar-Lev, Jesse Lorenz

– Contents –
0:05 – Agenda
1:00 – What is Google Visualization API?
9:30 – Remote Data Source
14:32 – The Java Open Source Data Source library
17:04 – Java Data Source Demo
31:48 – SalesForce.com Data Source implementation
43:20 – Q&A
– End –

This session will focus on building a server-side data source compatible with the Visualization API. It will cover the following topics: Using available Libraries for generic data sources, writing a datasource, and datasources on AppEngine.

For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html

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I like waking up and picking fresh strawberries and/or blueberries for breakfast…

but of course i enjoy growing, then picking, then consuming all of my own produce. but the breakfast is my favorite.
oh i like weeding – maybe because i’m an over-the-top prefectionist … yikes.

I like being by myself, working up a sweat and harvesting the fruits of my labors. Coming up, I love the oohs and ahs I get on Halloween because I always have the biggest baddest pumpkin. Unfortunately because i make my backyard a wildlife sanctuary, I do not get to eat any of my blueberries, the critters get them.

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Growing up, I used to visit a "pick your own" farm. It sold fruits like strawberries, blueberries, watermellons and pumpkins from time to time. I’d love to buy a few acres and open an orchard of my own. I especally have a love of apples. I had an apple tree when I was younger but it only grew tiny tiny apples that weren’t fit to eating, and the squirrels got to them first usually.

I’m in Georgia. Are there any varieties that would work better than others? What are some tips on growing fruitfull trees? How many years can I expect to take before they start producing?

Any comments or suggestions are welcome. Even suggestions on fruit that might be easier to grow in addition to apples. Thanks!
To the first comment, yes there is a market here for it. There is a nearby town that is filled with apple orchards that make quite the pretty penny on selling apples. It’s why I would want to sell apples. I appreciate the comment, because it would be odd to randomly open an apple orchard in the middle of nowhere and people saying "what is going on?"

Other fruits in Georgia, well that is easy, peaches! I live in Texas and we can grow pears, lemons, grapefruit, pecans, plums, mulberries, pomegranates, and small apples called mayhaws, which are mostly used in jelly.

Peaches would obviously grow great in your area. I have a lemon tree covered with dozens of lemons and I spend very little time with it. One time I bought 10 lemons for a buck, pureed them, and poured them around the base of the tree. Another time, I cut up lemons into wedges and buried them a few inches into the soil in a circle around the trunk. About once a year each, I water it, prune branches that touch the lawnmower, and put wood chips around the base. My parents have had a lot of success by simply planting pomegranate and mulberry trees and then leaving them alone. They also had plum trees and I have seen other people with plum trees also. My neighbor chopped down a pear tree because it was overproducing and dropping pears all the time. Grapefruit mainly grows in South Texas along the Mexican border. Mayhaws grow in the acidic soil of the pine trees but in lower lying areas.

Here are some other fruits that are grown in backyards and pick yourself farms in my area, but do not grow on trees. Tomatoes grow great everywhere here. Strawberries are more difficult to grow because they need lots of well-draining moisture and all mellons are difficult to grow because of their need for regular watering. Blackberries are great perennials that can grow well without any trouble, but they have a very short harvesting season of about one month in the early summer.

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Stop & Shop Muffins compared to Homemade Muffins.

Many people have a hard time deciding on whether to make their own homemade muffins or to have time and buy them at their local grocery store. As your doing your normal grocery shopping at Stop & Shop, you walk by the Bakery. You figure you could pick up some muffins for your average Sunday morning. You can purchase an individual muffin for $1.29 or four muffins for $3.99. Buying the individual muffins means you have a choice of different flavors of muffins, and buying in four pack means you’ll probably have the same flavor. If you where to purchase four individuals different flavor muffins, that would end up costing you $5.16.
Stop & Shop muffins contain a lot of preservatives, and are huge! There are about 20 serving in a Stop & Shop blueberry muffin. One serving is 200 calories, 13 grams of sugar, and 160 grams of sodium. In the Stop & Shop blueberry muffins, there are words that most of us couldn’t even pronounce. How are we to understand or know the meaning? For example; thiamin mononitrat, riboflayin, folic acid, have any clue? Then to top it off, you have the warning sign, “Contains: Wheat, Eggs, Milk, Soy and Nuts.”

When it comes to your own blueberry muffins, there are NO preservatives and you make any size you want. It is hard to measure the calorie and sodium amounts in them, but making them the desire size you want, you have more control on how much you are eating. You know what is going into your special homemade blueberry muffins; there is no need for a label. You have your rudimentary flour, sugar, milk, eggs, butter and fresh blueberries. You know how old or fresh your muffins are, unlike Stop & Shop.
Yes, making your own muffins takes time, work, and “kiss the baker” apron, but in the end it’s well worth it. The muffins are almost half the calories as Stop & Shop’s even if the muffin you were to make is the same size as Stop & Shop. With homemade muffins you can make a lot more for the same price as buying four individual muffins. You can get up to 8-12 or even more muffins from each batch.
When you’re holding that box of four blueberry muffins, think to yourself; “Should I spend four dollars on this? Or should I spend four dollars and get some fresh blueberries?” Your family will know the difference, when they are enjoying the blistering taste of the homemade blueberry muffins.

link your ending back to your introduction so you could say something like:
"in the end it is your choice whether to buy the stop and shop muffins and pay for just 4 when you could pay extra to make as many as you like but it is also based on budget what you can spend and what time you have will you have the time to make your own; plus to make different flavors you need to get different ingrediants again it is about budget. Though it depends what situation you are in.
maybe something like that i don’t know

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I followed the directions in the sure gel and also on the ‘pick your own’ sight for blueberry jelly. It looks great and tastes good, but it didn’t thicken up right. So the next day I dumped it back in the pan boiled it some more and re-jarred it with new lids. I even added another half pack of sure gel. It is still pretty runny.

Any Ideas for my next batch are welcome and what to use this batch for. It still spreads on bread as long as it is cold.

you can cook it a bit longer if you wish or leave it the way it is and use it as a syrup over pancakes or ice cream, here is a link you will be able to find more recipes .

http://www.kraftcanada.com/en/recipes/certo-no-cook-blueberry-jam-84020.aspx

http://parksblueberries.com/recipes/

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Hi!

My boyfriend and I want to go fruit picking – not as a job, but just to visit open farms and pay to pick your own fruit and take it home! There used to be a place in the Gold Coast hinterland where you could go blueberry picking, but it’s not there any more.

Any info would be great!!

Thanks

I starred your question hoping someone else would answer, as I haven’t got much info, but as they haven’t so far I’ll give it a go.

The only fruit-growing place I know in SE Qld [apart from the pineapple plantations in the Glasshouse mountains region], is the Granite Belt, with its capital in Stanthorpe. Grapes, apples, peaches and other cool-climate fruits are grown there as the region is elevated and much cooler than most of Qld. It’s a really picturesque area and well worth a visit, quite different from the Gold Coast. Please note, it’s FROSTY in winter!

I have over 500 blueberry shrubs,bushes,trees,whatever,they are 12 -14 ft so they surely look like trees.Anyways I may have to take out 30 or so for a driveway and I want to know if its worth the money to try to transplant them.They are 10-15 years old and I sell them by the gallon.It will be a pick your own farm by next year and I will also sell them already picked by the gallon or half gallon.So is it wurth renting a digger to try to transplant them,or is it worth the time and money/I need to know how many gallons each one should produce.

"With proper preparation and a little patience, you’ll be rewarded with 10 to 25 pounds of delicious, nutritious “blues” per bush, each and every year."

If you were planting new bushes… wouldn’t you be spending money for someone to dig the holes anyway? So if you negotiate the digging of new holes along with the digging up & replanting of the bushes, it might not cost much more than starting with new bushes.

As long as the bushes are healthy, it just might be worth the effort… when you consider the time it takes for a bush to mature.

Good luck!