Posts Tagged ‘couchdb’
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
This assignment was to develop a concept around a two-screen, live event experience; specifically, using TV and computer via internet. Our group’s concept was a variety-style, Gong Show inspired show with binary voting from viewers to determine via aggregate whether a performance was Fly (a rousing success) or Pie (a miserable failure) which received a whipped cream pie in the face. (We’re a classy outfit here..) (more…)
Tags: assignment, class, couchdb, couchrest, experiment, group, itp, itv, leitv, live, performance, problem, programming, project, sinatra, two-screen, voting, web
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Yesterday I released a small web app; it was my first using the Sinatra microframework for Ruby: http://qwerty.robertcarlsen.net

The app arranges illustrations of animals wearing lettered t-shirts to create user-supplied messages. Kara Schlindwein created the illustrations as part of her project for the 6th Annual Fun-a-Day project in Philadelphia, and I wrote the first draft of the app while sitting in a chair at the show a couple of weeks ago, still nursing my broken ankle. (more…)
Tags: app, couchdb, couchrest, development, dreamhost, funaday, haml, kara, passenger, programming, qwerty, rack, ruby, sass, sinatra
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
after a couple of late nights, i have a proof-of-concept in the real-time cycling-related datalogging. the reasons behind the project are still getting sorted, but lately my interest in ubiquitous urban sensor networks has been piqued and this is a tentative exploration in that area. sensors don’t have to remain static as part of physical infrastructure…millions of people are carrying millions of sensors around with them daily. (more…)
Tags: bike, couchdb, geocoding, itp, mapping, network, nyc, Rest of You, web
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