I gave myself a personal goal around mid to late November; to finish an STO Android app with the dataset that Phil Casgrain had given me access to. The app is now available on the Android market as STO on the Go though it’s almost impossible to find using the search. I’m selling the app for [...]
Maybe it would be appropriate to title this “how our government shows respect for workers rights”. This of course in response to the Honourable Lisa Raitts’ continuous threats to legislate unionized workers back to work, this time being Air Canada flight attendants. We are told this is because our economy is in a terribly fragile [...]
Keeping up with my typical not at all on the subject mentality I did a presentation about Clojure at Septembers OGRE meeting. There was some interest in getting the slides, as well as the resources I mentioned. You can get the slides here (zipped up if you’d prefer that) and this is the list of [...]
Over the weekend I worked on a quick little python script that “scrapes” the capital bixi data feed. I’m hoping to take this data and generate some statistical data so people can have a good idea of what the chances are that there will be a bike available at a station near that at a [...]
Yesterday I decided I’d grab one of the Bixi bikes now available in several places in Ottawa for a spin, and I’d have to say I’m pretty impressed. I remember when they did the pilot project last summer, I considered using it once or twice but the locations were horrible so I never bothered. This [...]
I’m a part of a growing number of Canadians who are ditching their cable subscription and moving over to whatever can be picked up over an antenna. This has worked out quite well for me, though I’m beginning to get a bit worried that some providers (such as CTV) will drag their feet or possibly [...]
Earlier last week I was trying to view the bus schedule from my device. Unfortunately, I have a T-Mobile Nexus one on a Rogers network; so EDGE speeds only. The website for the buses I take is pretty much image driven, so pages take forever to load. And even when things do load, sometimes opening [...]
Figured I would check out a presentation at The Code Factory about HTML5 and CSS3 today. Quite a few people came out to the event, which is pretty interesting. Nice to know that several people are interested in the subject and will be integrating several of these features into their future sites once the technology [...]