• Joining Mapbox

  23 Feb 2014
  

  This post is a bit late, since I joined Mapbox almost 2 months ago. But I still wanted to write up why I'm excited, to be working there. The Mapbox Team I've known some members of the team for years, I've spoken at events hosted by Mapbox, and worked with...

• Ignite SF 8

  08 Dec 2013
  

  Dec 08 2013 Wow. That was seriously fun! Ignite SF 8 was last week, and it was awesome! Thanks to all the great speakers, volunteers, and attendees. So inspiring to see the community coming together and share topics and knowledge that interests them. I know I came way with a...

• Django ORM Standalone

  03 Sep 2012
  

  Sept 03 2012 I find the Django ORM's API to be very well designed. It reduces the amount of work you have to do to load and persist data, and you can also still do the more complex queries. It has sane ways of adding joins and returning already populated...

• Turf wars

  02 Sep 2012
  

  September 2nd, 2012 I used Gowalla, and I have to say that miss it. I know that Foursquare "won" or whatever but it really has never matched the fun I had on Gowalla. Why? Foursquare, especially in the latest versions is extremely well designed. I like it for discovery, for...

• Along a route.

  01 Sep 2012
  

  Sept 1 2012 A quick project that I worked on at Code for America is RouteView. The idea came about while looking at the camera images in the city of Honolulu. Both the city's and the state's sites that featured camera images where complex, required many clicks and navigation to...

• Running Wordpress on Heroku

  26 May 2012
  

  May 26 2012 Heroku is a great hosting platform. It takes most of the pains of deployment, sysadmining, and scaling out of a basic website or service. Wordpress is a publishing engine that powers a large precentage of the web. It's community is great, with lot of development going into...

• Jekyll Blog

  22 Apr 2012
  

  Apr 22 2012 So my old server finally died and forced me to complete my move to jekyll. I didnt move most of my blog posts from my old wordpress blog, I might move more, but a lot of the entries were old and out of date. If there is...

• The 360 Gallery

  22 Dec 2010
  

  Dec 22 2010 Update: I have discontinued hosting this project. Some links below might be broken, but you might still find the content useful. Panorama Gallery Here: The 360 Gallery A few weeks ago I started see http://occip.it/ links in my twitter stream. I always clicked on the links when...

Talks, Etc

• 30 May 2013 » CfA & Open Data ... in France!
• 28 Feb 2013 » Code for America <3 Maps
• 6 Sept 2012 » Open Data in Government - California League of Cities
• 4 Apr 2012 » Realtime map Callaboration - WhereConf
• Sept 28 2011 » Nodejs and CouchDB: The new Geo data toolset - FOSS4G

Projects

• MapChat Collaborative Map Editor
• Billboard An API to your screens!
• Talkback Web interface for XMPP group chat