For an upcoming project at TOPP, we’re talking about setting up an optional scope contract [PDF] — where we specify the time, cost and...
For a little side project, I’m using jPlayer, a nice jQuery-based audio player. I wanted to skin the buttons a to suit my project, and while...
Today, Theo took his first ever bite of solid food. I get all welled up looking at pictures of him while I’m at work.
I get way too much spam in my inbox, even just counting things I’ve signed up for myself. Most of it I delete, but today’s email from...
I can’t say enough about ScribeFire. It’s a Firefox add-on that gives you an in-window blogging client. Here are just a few reasons why...
Today’s post on Infrastructurist about the D-Train Murder had a line that caught my eye: Cramming the population of a city like New York into a...
During Theo’s morning nap today, I updated this blog’s theme. I’m going to attempt to start using the blog more regulalry, as...
If you use Melkjug as a Fluid app, like I do, then you’ll love this:
(Melkjug fluid icon)
I’ve been attending a lot of events lately, and one thing that keeps coming up for me is that the multi-day conference / workshop format is a...
Today, I got my first dose of Twitter smack down, as my account was suspended along with a bunch of others following yesterday’s Gov 2.0 Expo. ...
When I couldn’t sleep the other night, I started mocking up a zippy drag-n-drop front end for Trac, based on the snappy UI of tools like Things...
Introducing the newest member of the clan: Theo. It’s now been nearly two weeks since Theo joined us, and it’s been pretty amazing (and...
A few weeks ago, I created a small web app for scheduling project teams at TOPP Labs. At any given time, we’ve got anywhere between 10 and 20...
I had a great crowdsourcing experience yesterday. Here at TOPP Labs, we’re doing a 6-month check-in on our annual employee reviews. What that...
At work today, we are exploring the process of drawing routes on a map, thinking ahead to a few upcoming projects involving bike planning. So Sonali...
Hot off the presses: Backpack TOC Greasemonkey script.
I spent most of this morning looking back through old posts about the Chandler Project and OSAF. I’ve thought about this a lot, due to the...
For a recent personal project (I won’t say which since that would defeat the purpose), I was in need of a new kind of authentication. My wife...
Even though I shouldn’t own a car, I do, and as every car owner in NYC knows, dealing with alternate-side parking is a hassle. That, combined...
This past weekend, Phil Ashlock and I headed down to DC to participate in TransparencyCamp, a BarCamp event put on by the Sunlight Foundation. We...