I haven’t had a facebook account for a few years now — i did the deletion thing a while ago — but through a combination of neglect and…
Wow it sure has been a while! Uhh this isn’t even the same blogging platform as it was when i wrote my last post, like… more than a year ago…
What, you haven’t heard the news ? Forms 990, back to 2011, in machine readable formats, no FOIA required ! OK, maybe if you aren’t a…
After having launched a couple of small React projects, I’ve grown to like it. Finally I have a couple excuses to use it in an access…
While working on Excellent Schools Detroit’s school data API , I ran into an intersting set of problems relating to stacking database…
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As the result of a recent career shift that I’ll address in a future post, I’ve been able to get back into some wireless tinkering. It turns…
After using an IBM T30 years ago, I’ve become accustomed to having a pointing device between my G-H-B. And until noticing a strange nub on…
tl;dr: Drupal Docker container with nginx, php5-fpm, and linked MariaDB A few years ago, when I first needed to deploy many Drupal sites, I…
Detroit Ledger is rising from a brief few months of hibernation: we received some funding to improve our database (more details soon), and…
Tomorrow I’ll be representing Detroit Ledger at the Awesome Summit. Lucy’s blog post has a nice salient description of our panel: The…
A few months ago I took down my old blog, in anticipation of building some sort of crazy software to replace it. Then a ghost appeared…
I wrote this for the commotion blog a while ago… cross posting! Over the past few years, The Work Department has been active in building…
It’s gotten cold in Detroit again, and the chickens need the usual TLC: more food, more straw, heated water dispensers, and active heating…
Some hints for the internet: gem install fcgi symbolic link CHILIPROJECT_ROOT/public to ~/web for the ispconfig user comment out the…
Images of an Amish barn-raising came to mind while I sat deep within Spaulding Court’s westernmost basement, slowly feeding strand after…
my source code management / git workflow just got a bit easier: i’ve never used ssh agent forwarding before, but now i can just use one key…
Preface: I have to put this into a bit of current events context: I spent the morning researching for this blog post, but was interrupted…
It has been a busy winter for me, and I’m sad to say that i haven’t been very active with the community internet building until recently…
Scenario: you’ve developed a magento extension, tested it on your development server for all these potential fringe cases, even brought in…
Recently a few of my friends have asked me what could help encourage more people in my neighborhood to ride bicycles. For all the time I’ve…
The chicken sensor is in full operation . It’s a yogurt container filled to the brim with: So in the end, I re-programed the Arduino with a…
The public voting period for this year’s FACT Social Justice Challenge ends this Friday! Read about how to vote on projects…
I worked with two groups in applying for Netsquared/FACT grants: http://netsquared.org/projects/detroit-garden-sensor-development http…
Well, it’s been a wild webhosting ride recently. I’ve been automating dev/staging/live production procedures with my Drupal and Magento…
My bicycle was just stolen from the WSU farmers market today, around noon. Details: large orange Nashbar mountain bike frame, only decal is…
I’d like to share a few stories: caption id=“attachment_194” align=“alignright” width=“300” caption=“Auto the dog, with leaves” /caption…
Via HN : Chris Paget demonstrated a nifty little GSM hijacking device at Defc on: with a directional antenna and some clever OpenBTS…
Well, it’s Maker Faire weekend and after attending a somewhat lackluster and under-attended “can do camp” in Detroit Proper this past…
I’ve been reading the backlog of the Scribd team’s programming blog and am thoroughly amazed. For some reason, I’d blindly assumed that…
After an invigorating AMC2010 , and a very fruitful HOT MESH conference session and media lab presence, I’m back at my daily work of code…
A bit about my recent work: As the web dev for the Allied Media Conference , I’ve been tasked with creating a system for participants to…
Discover Technology at the DiscoTech … Saturday Jun 12 2-5pm @ MOCAD … Brought to you by the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition … Own…
Hi, Things have been extremely busy for me with work, and I haven’t been able to spend much time with the community wireless network…
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Detroit’s first wireless mesh networks are imminent: I am patiently awaiting the arrival of a slew of Foneras and open-mesh pro routers! I…
I’ve been reading quite a bit recently about gis and mapping with drupal, recently. I’ve never used drupal to manage a gis system before…
Today, Google made its dns resolver service public (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 - the IP address equivalent to 1-800-call-sam). From the Google…
Jerome brought this by the shop a few days ago. It’s a 1980s road racing frame made IN DETROIT!!! by Pino Morroni. It’s truly remarkable…
I’m building a new content-managed website for Congregation Beth Shalom , a local synagogue, using Wordpress and the Thematic Framework…
After months of having a totally stock tmobile G1, I’ve finally bitten the bullet, rooted my phone, and installed a pre-packaged new and…
So I’m Hubbin it up right now.. setting up an office server that will do filesharing at first, and then be an OpenBravo ERP/POS system…
DEFINEs not defined in post-thumb-template-library.php. solution: add the defines from the regular post-thumb.php
if yr plone instance can’t find PIL, and you’re sure it’s installed, maybe it’s because you have to create a link from the PIL egg to “PIL…
debian lenny xen has some quirks - after the hvc0 tty setup drama, i’ve run into another hiccup: console access will hang, unless you…
I’m setting up a new server to run a few xen instances, and ran across a few issues: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug…
After tiring of a slow Zen VPS provider, I’ve moved The Citizen Newspaper of Hamtramck’s site to some big iron (dual Xeon 64bit). To…
see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138 have to modify some cache headers now.
I’m just getting started with amazon’s virtualized environment / web services after having used a few other similar services. Working on…
This past week, I wasn’t able to put many hours in at the bike shop. In any case, we have been prepping for our holiday bicycle giveaway…