The Geoloqi + CivicApps Hackathon is all wrapped up and it has been great! I got to meet a number of new people and we all literally got a number of things done. The bus app, is practically done, and there are oodles of ideas primed and ready. New SDKs will be coming from the... Continue reading →

But myself and fellow hacker & Geoloqi Crew put something together to figure out where the bus is. Nothing super fancy, but the idea is solid. We wanted to get a simple mobile application put together that would identify where it is, what the closest bus stop is, and pull up the next arriving bus(es)... Continue reading →

How do you know that Ruby on Rails has already hit the big time? Not that it needs anymore proof that it is absolutely one of the MAJOR platforms available right now… Recruiters now regularly come to user groups & offer to “buy the beer” afterwards. The split of job searches on sites now easily... Continue reading →

I’ve been working with Rails now for about 3 months. At first I jumped right in like a bull in a china shop. I have since, suffered the frustration of doing so. I’ve experimented on OS-X, Windows, and Linux (primarily the Ubuntu Distro). Among these three operating systems, getting up and running with rails is... Continue reading →

So a few weeks back I created a Rubymine Ruby on Rails Project I was kicking off. I got it running, did some scaffolding, started customizing that for what I needed. I had created this project on Windows 7 and did not realize the implications of this. I did a clone via github of the... Continue reading →