Playing with Python
As part of the Events team at Hacker Dojo (where I’m more or less happily spending most weekdays now), I’m helping to write a new events application. Jeff Lindsay started the app before any of the rest...
View ArticleAt WordCamp SF 2010
I had the pleasure of attending WordCamp SF 2010 with over 770 WordPeeps at the new Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco yesterday as I’m working on a WordPress plugin for Kachingle that will be...
View ArticlePost-Mortem: Writing a WordPress Plugin
Very happy to say I’ve just released the first WordPress plugin I coded start to finish by myself (albeit standing on the shoulders of those who came before), Kachingle Medallion for WordPress. As the...
View ArticleCompass/SASS User Meetup at Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, June 29
Nothing fancy but if you’re interested in a powerful, labor-saving Ruby/Ruby on Rails view building and CSS programming tools you should join us Tuesday, June 29, at 7:00 for the first Compass/SASS...
View ArticleFIFA: Consider the open source model
In this World Cup, as in past tournaments, referees have made numerous, game-changing poor decisions on goals and possible goals. Tevez scoring from offside against Mexico, Dempsey ruled offside...
View ArticleThree Months at Glam
First, I want to thank my friend Joel for making this opportunity possible and for his support over the last decade-plus. He is an awesomely creative developer and if you need consulting you’ll be...
View ArticleNew Britespring.com is live
Just a microsite for my periodic consulting engagements. Rails 3, Compass/Sass, jQuery, running on Heroku. Britespring.com
View ArticleSmallCommunities and J2: My New Rails Projects
I’m happy to tell you that we recently launched J2, a new version of JHTC.org, and that I’ve spun the core code off into an open source project called SmallCommunities. SmallCommunities is available on...
View ArticleRecent Programming Finds: JavaScript
While watching the 49ers absolutely destroy the Bucs this afternoon I went spelunking in the Most Watched JavaScript repos on Github. Here are some nice ones which, admittedly, may also fit with my...
View ArticlePublishing Tweets to a WordPress blog
With IFTTT losing Twitter triggers I figured I better do something if I want to keep reposting my tweets to this blog. So with the help of the inestimable Steve Morris I whipped up a little Ruby script...
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