Sep 12, 2007
This morning after having bought my coffee, I went to grab the honey from the self-serve area. Noticing it was missing, I checked above the espresso machine to see if it was there. As it wasn’t, I asked someone for it and they went to get a fresh one. Upon his return, he told me … Read more
Sep 12, 2007
I’ve recently created a project for my command-line image tiler for Google Maps on Google Code. Coincidentally, the official Google Maps API blog linked to my tool on Monday so hopefully there will be some interest in playing around … Read more
Feb 5, 2007
At yesterday’s Toronto Transit Camp I was fortunate enough to speak with TTC chairman Adam Giambrone. I doubt that Giambrone was able to get a bite to eat, there were so many people wanting to speak with him. We spoke mostly about the new TTC … Read more
Feb 5, 2007
I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that yesterday’s Toronto Transit Camp was my first BarCamp-themed event. I’ve been to a couple DemoCamps, but never to a BarCamp. I’m horrible at gauging attendance, so when a pre-event registration of 80 people was announced, I was somehow envisioning a smaller gathering. Based … Read more
Feb 3, 2007
FYI, both my girlfriend and I have registered to attend the Toronto TransitCamp this Sunday, although we have yet to receive an email saying we made the cut-off. I’m anxious to see if it will live up to the hype. People have been patting … Read more
“[T]here is a partial Python implementation of the v2 [SPDY] draft that has seen some love and works with the current Chrome builds but (and herein lies another kink) only if you disable SSL support explicitly via the command line, which is a pain since it’s rather trivial to get the whole thing to work … Read more
Anand Vishwanath advocates fully integrating a user experience design and participants in with the development team in an Agile environment. UX designers need to be accountable to other members of the team and need to work with the same cadence. This could be an argument against using a design team from an agency, particularly if … Read more
We have a popcorn popper which doesn’t pop corn as well as our stove-top technique. It might just ideal as a passable coffee roaster, however.