Author:
andre
We’ve just launched PlaceShout (http://placeshout.com) – a “cheatsheet”-style summary of places around town, created by you and arbitrated by the community. Now you can see what’s important about a place without wading though stories about someone’s neighbor’s dog.
If you have ever been anywhere, you’ll enjoy making shoutouts.…
Author:
derek
Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men, is a man that isn’t afraid to break away from the accepted structure of English language:
He doesn’t use quotation marks
He doesn’t tell you who is talking
Say goodbye to apostrophes
Occasional long sentences joined together by “and”
In a previous novel, when a Spanish-speaking character spoke, he didn’t translate to English.…
Author:
derek
This American Life recently profiled Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago. The episode featured one of the most stiring sound bites in my recent memory – a portion of a debate that served as Washington’s coming-out party. It was easy to imagine myself listening to the minute-long segment on the radio and knowing instantly that whether I liked it our not, this longshot is going to win.…
Author:
andre
Have you noticed how much easier it is to remember directions in your own city? Think about the last time your printer ran out of ink and you had to jot directions to a restaurant on a post-it. Compare that to writing out directions from a hotel to a restaurant in an unfamiliar city.…
Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
Just a quick note that I’ll be speaking on "Lessons from the Trenches “ Learning from the Rails Bootcamp at the regional Ruby on Rails Conference dubbed acts_as_conference (a play on the Rails way of introducing behavior through code) in Orlando, Florida, on Feb 8-9.…
Author:
james
As technologists and especially programmers we are always expected to automate as much of any process as we can. In general, this is a good rule of thumb and I’m a big follower of that philosophy.
However, though it may be hard for us to admit, some problems are better solved with less technology.…
Author:
derek
When getting a shuttle to the airport, I came across this great idea immortalized in clipart.…
Author:
derek
Andre and I recently finished the initial launch of Placeshout’s Facebook application. There are several “getting started” tutorials available on building Facebook applications with Ruby on Rails, but there were quite a few issues we ran into that are beyond a “How To” blog entry.…
Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
You may have noticed a change of scenery on the Highgroove Studios site, and (for those of you not in feedreaders) this blog.
We’ve taken a good look back at where Highgroove has been, and a bigger look at where we’re going.…
Author:
Administrator
I am celebrating the arrival of Mac OS X 10.5 by making the source code to PagePacker available. Here is the compiled application.
Don’t know what PagePacker is? Check this posting.…