Open source is fun
Our Ruby Rodeo (aka FOSCON 2) last night was a blast. See pictures here. Sean Mountcastle has a good summary of the talks on his blog (link seems to be broken now, but try later), and Chris Dawson...
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I finally managed to pick a weekend coding project that was actually weekend sized: I wrote a little program in Ruby to simulate bus passenger loads during rush hour. You can grab the code for it on my...
View ArticleAn Easy Way to Rename Files with Attachment_fu
This is pretty simple, but I couldn’t find anything similar when I searched for it, so I’m posting in case it’s useful to someone else. I’m using attachment_fu, the popular Rails file upload plugin, on...
View ArticleDeveloping a Calagator Client for the iPhone
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! I’ve been working on an iPhone app to allow Calagator users to find out what events are happening, get details, and map the event location so they can figure out how to...
View ArticleHacking and Tulips
But not hacking at tulips. The farm would rather you buy them pre-cut. On Sunday I went to the tulip festival at Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm with my mom. The fields are just gorgeous. Flowers everywhere....
View ArticleGetting Involved with CivicApps
In addition to the economic planning activities I talked about in my previous post, there’s another area where local government is trying to engage with software developers, open source ones in...
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