Sandwich Roulette Over the weekend I had the idea to create an app which creates a random sandwich for you to get at Wawa. The result is the Sandwich Roulette! Here’s the source on Github.
Innovation Tournament This week I was in San Francisco participating in a Wharton class about innovation. We had a week to sort through various ideas for web products and create a prototype. I worked on two projects. One is a lottery site, with a simple demo available. I got to use the Youtube API for playing a […]
Philly Give Camp 2010: Part 5 The Builder To keep the teams working as separately as possible with the least interference, we decided that the PAAL Builder, the tool used to build student schedules and lessons, would be completely HTML and Javascript. That means that there would be no server-side code, no ERB or HAML template files, and no Rails special […]
Philly Give Camp 2010: Part 4 Thinking about the problem domain, Trevor, Sebastian, and I decided to abstract away the complexity. The problem (as I understood it then) can be explained thusly: Students need a way to follow a list of scheduled tasks throughout the day, to assist them in performing daily activities. These tasks can be broken into more detailed […]
Philly Give Camp 2010: Part 3 As the MECA staff were describing the application, I didn’t have a clear sense of how beneficial our work would be. To illustrate how our application would help people, they showed us a video of a student going to a gym. In the first clip, the student has trouble following directions and signage about the […]
