Tonight is the kick off event for Hack for Western Mass. This weekend, web and software developers, designers, community organizers, and other folks from all over Western Mass will gather to tackle local challenges with technology. Hack for Western Mass is one of 96 events happening nationwide as part of the National Day of...
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This site was built for the Treehouse Community and Foundation. This website is intended to communicate about the intergenerational foster care community in Easthampton. The organization also would like to spread the word about re-envisioning foster care, creating an extended network that can replicate this model around the country. The site features a blog,...
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Plone is a powerful, polished and user-friendly content management system. It excels at providing dynamic, content-rich web presence for a community and as an intranet/portal system. Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain information for a public website or an intranet using only a web browser. Plone is easy to understand and use — allowing users to...
Read more →Tracker is a story-based project planning tool from Pivotal Labs that allows teams to collaborate and react to real-world changes instantly. It’s based on agile software methods, but can be used on a wide range of projects. Tracker maintains a prioritized backlog of project deliverables, broken down into small, estimated pieces, called stories. It dynamically groups...
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Git is one of the indispensable tools that I use on every project. It makes it easy to keep track of all the revisions and versions of a project. It also enables multiple developers to work together in a seamless fashion, providing a way to merge changes made by other developers into the master version. Git is...
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WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes. It is easy to use and it works great! Check...
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I built this site for the a homeschool newspaper publication that needed an online presence. It’s built with WordPress using a responsive design to accomodate everything from phones to tablets to desktop browsers. There are a few interesting plugins: The Facebook Like Box allows visitors to share the articles with their friends on Facebook. Getting the...
Read more →I’ve been excited about some of the tools coming out of the Twitter engineering team. Their front-end framework, Bootstrap, has been getting acclaim all over the web for quite a while now. And rightly so. It’s a great package providing sane design starting points, including nice typography, a responsive grid, buttons, icons, menus, alerts,...
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This project uses the the opensource Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) to automate the production of spider-like feature layers extracted from a larger dataset. The GDAL libraries provide a single abstract data model for a large variety of data formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and...
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When developing software, it’s important to have different environments so that modifications made by developers don’t affect others outside their own “sandbox” or the “production” server. Best practices generally dictate three tiers: a local development environment for each developer, a staging environment to integrate changes from multiple developers, and a production environment. WordPress is...
Read more →I’ve been collaborating with Chronicle Technologies, a technology consulting firm, on a number of Plone projects recently. Much of my work has focused on developing a social networking product written in python that provides the community with ability to share content, comment on each other’s posts, and maintain a profile. In this site for...
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I built this simple web application to generate multiplication worksheets and puzzles for my kids who have been busy memorizing their multiplication tables. I looked for something similar, but couldn’t find anything that quite fit what I was looking for. There is a form that allows you select with numbers to use when producing...
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I created this blackjack game as part of a tutorial to teach a student some basics of ruby programming and web development. UPDATE: Here’s a link to Sam’s version of the game. It’s a little more polished then my initial implementation. I think he’s still planning to add more features. Anyway, nice work! It...
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I worked on this Plone site for a seminar entitled “Diversity and Innovation” at the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School. This site showcases many of the capabilities on Plone as a intranet portal and community networking platform. Unfortunately, access to the bulk of the site is restricted to students,...
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