Archive for October, 2005

People, Circles, and Syndicated Feeds

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

The model for Think New Orleans. Three concepts.

A person, like you or me.
A circle, of people, based around, a school, a church, a neighborhood, a cafe, bar, or restaraunt.
A feed, of information.

These are the building blocks of the software. If it doesn’t fit within this model, it doesn’t fit within Think New Orleans.

Hadley’s Sextent

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

The GPS of yore. The Sextent.
Came across this thinking about maps. I’m linking this as an example of tech writing.

Pal’s Is Open

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

Pal’s is open.

Google Maps and Think New Orleans

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

I was going to make an article of this, but it went to quick.
The documetation covers everything. The Google Maps API is simple. It fits quite nicely in a JavaScript environment. Working with Prototype makes this even easier.
Watch the Mid-City article map.

Proud to Swim Home

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

There is a bumper sticker, New Orleans, Proud to Call Call it Home, and play on that bumper stick, New Orleans, Proud to Crawl Home.
New Orleans, Proud to Swim Home.

Google Base

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Ran across this in XML-DEV, and Googled it. Google Base: All your base are, in fact, belong to us, tells the story very well.
This is the right model. It’s very clever.
Google is moving past tags, and into different sorts of containers. The different components of this technology are going to allow people to create ad […]

Smaller Distributables

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Set out to create smaller JAR distributables last month. My projects are breaking themselves up into smaller artifacts. Many are independent.
I read through script.aculo.us and Prototype in fifteen minutes. It is amazing that you can get so much out so little code.
The read goes quick, because there is not much code, and because all the […]

JUnit Articles

Friday, October 28th, 2005

If the tests are supposed to act as documentation, one should create a documentation test.
I’m taking a peek at Monento, and trying to see the project organization, when everything is dumped into a single directory. A certian library pops out at me. The one used to select clusters for mutation. I’d like to record […]

The Interweb

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

A while back, I said that Interweb would move from joke to parlance. I think it will. I do.
Here’s Accoridan Guy using it, knida jokey, kinda not, in the On the Interweb category of his blog.
The Interweb ®.

Tracepoint Update Site

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

My Tracepoint plugin for Eclipse begins with an update site. Before any real code is written, I want to know that the results will be published in a timely mannor.
I’m working off of the How to Keep Up to Date article at eclipse.org.
This isn’t dovetailing with the new structure I’ve eastablished for my builds. Eclipse […]