Trek, I am.: Archive

Apprenticeship Oppurtunity

From some very cool colleagues: Do you like to solve problems? What about learning new languages and techniques for writing software? Is your idea of a good time spending a day in a room with a bunch of brilliant coders? Do you like to solve problems? What about learning new languages and techniques for writing software? Is your idea of a good time spending a day in a room with a bunch of...

Jun 14th

concentrate interview

Concentrate Mag: Would you say you present your ideas differently than older board members?
Trek: No. 
Concentrate Mag: No?
Trek: I mean, I voice my ideas with more snark than some board members, but that has nothing to do with age, we just have different personalities.
Concentrate Mag: And do you think that the older board members treat you differently?
Trek: No.
Concentrate Mag: Well, I'm really hoping to set up a dichotomy between stuffy boomers and wild, loose cannon gen-xers.
Trek: I wish I had more of a story for you. That's just not how this board is.
Concentrate Mag: I'll go ahead and just make up a quote from you to support my story anyway.
Trek: I knew you would.

Jul 23rd

[AADL Bug?] FIXED.

Good news! It’s been fixed. Seeing an odd bug on the AADL site. Wondering if others can reproduce it. Start by being logged out (or logging out if you’re logged in) Go to any item by record number, http://www.aadl.org/cat/seek/record=1296503 Click “Request this title” You should be redirected to a “Request Verification” Page Click the “Login and...

Jun 21st

Oh, Academics (just fucking put it on github...

Trek: Have you considered moving the code to a social hosting site like github or bitbucket so it's easier for people to contribute?
Ziba: That's what we intend to do with Collage and a number of our other projects.  One of the hold ups is that is so nice and easy to take UM specific short cuts to implement authentication (cosign) and authorization (umod).  We're hesitant to put things in a really public space that aren't ready to be re-used by external organizations without work.  When we either give up that ideal or find spare time to implement these features for a non-UM audience, we'll post them right away.
Trek: I think you're logic is backwards.  You make it public so that people can refractor the umich-specific parts if that's useful to them. Every OSS project starts out only meeting the specific needs of its creators.  You make it public so it can become generally applicable, not make it generally applicable so it can become public.
Ziba: I agree that an OSS project can have the life cycle you describe.  The question now isn't really about going "public."  The source has always been available to the public.  It's more a matter of convenience, promotional timing and our availability to properly foster/moderate a potential developer community surrounding collage.  In the meantime, to make it more convenient for contributors, the tarballs that have always been at: http://develop.www.umich.edu/collage/source/ now include the .git directory for our repository.  The remote repository can't be interacted with, but it should ease patch creation a bit.

May 29th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 10:30a - 12:30p. Today’s topics: Web, web, web. Stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map This is me today, allergic to life:

May 8th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Primo Coffee on Liberty and Fifth this afternoon from 10:30a - 12:30p. Today’s topics: Lightweight APIs with Rack or Sinatra; Rails Code Review Day! Stop by for free consulting. View Map I look like this today:

Apr 17th

Office Hours (BONUS)

I’m holding an additional session office hours this week as the semester draws to an end. I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 11a - 1p. Stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map This is me today:

Apr 13th

Office Hours

In consideration to late risers and downtowners I’ll be at Primo Coffee on Liberty and Fifth this afternoon from 2p - 4p. Today’s topics: cloud deployment, version control systems, teaching Rails to experienced programmers and anything else you’d like. Stop by for free consulting! View Larger Map I look like this today:

Apr 10th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 11a - 1p. Today’s topics: Ann Arbor as tech haven, A2B3’s age bias, and various programming questions. Stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map This is me today:

Apr 3rd

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 11a - 1p. Today’s topics: Ann Arbor’s hidden design community, the benefits of Open, data you don’t think is tabular (but really is), grid systems, Rails, and Javascript. Stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map This is me today:

Mar 27th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 10:30a - 1p. Today’s topics: the Ann Arbor DDA, Information Activism, connecting the U’s tech community to the town’s, and Rails programming. Stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map I’m bundled up again today:

Mar 20th

DDA Info Policy

to: Susan Pollay <spollay@a2dda.org> bcc: Mayor Hieftje<JHieftje@a2gov.org>, Edward Vielmetti Dear Susan, I’m writing to follow up a (as yet, unreturned) phone call expressing my concern for recent actions taken by the DDA involving access to real time parking data. As you know (summarized here http://www.voiptechchat.com/voip/255/a2dda-blocks-asterisk-parking-data/ and in a...

Mar 14th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 10:30a - 1p. If you have questions about web application architecture/design, information architecture, javascript, ruby, or ruby on rails stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map I look like this today, rocking out like a mad scientist.

Mar 13th

Office Hours

In consideration of early risers, I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon morning from 9a - 12p. If you have questions about web application architecture/design, information architecture, javascript, ruby, or ruby on rails stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map I look like this today, rocking the 5 day beard.

Mar 6th

Office Hours

In consideration of early risers, I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon morning from 10a - 12p. If you have questions about web application architecture/design, information architecture, javascript, ruby, or ruby on rails stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map I look like this today:

Feb 27th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 11a - 1p. If you have questions about web application architecture/design, information architecture, javascript, ruby, or ruby on rails stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map I look like this today:

Feb 20th

“It’s the same for plenty of other products too. You can do all the planning you...”

– Matt, 37Signals http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1581-the-moment-of-truth-is-a-real-audience

Feb 17th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 11a - 1:30p. If you have questions about web application architecture/design, information architecture, javascript, ruby, or ruby on rails stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map I look like this today, in colored pencil:

Feb 13th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 12 - 2:30pm. If you have questions about web application architecture/design, information architecture, javascript, ruby, or ruby on rails stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map I look like this today, in colored pencil:

Feb 6th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 12 - 3pm. If you have questions about web application architecture/design, information architecture, javascript, ruby, or ruby on rails stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map I look like this today.

Jan 30th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 12 - 5pm. If you have questions about web application architecture/design, javascript, ruby, or ruby on rails stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map I look like this today.

Jan 19th

Jan 9th

Office Hours

I’ll be at Biggby Coffee on Liberty and Maynard this afternoon from 11am - 2pm. If you have questions about web application architecture/design, javascript, ruby, or ruby on rails stop by for free consulting. View Larger Map I look like this today.

Jan 9th

snuggly in my own bed. mmmmmmm

May 13th

working towards inbox 0

May 13th

in 10 boxes. :-/

May 13th

Transfer of IP to Libersy stressing me. note to self: always have contractors sign “contract” so they don’t end up owning your IP and ideas.

May 13th

I just came across a reset button on a form. Really. Flash back to 1996.

May 13th

in your tracking system, closing your tickets

Mar 6th

mmmm trader joe’s tuna in yellow curry sauce.

Mar 5th

Oh man… moving into new office on the ides of March.

Mar 5th

shovel….die.

Mar 5th

wow. that must be like a foot of snow.

Mar 5th

Leopolds. devon only mentioned the accident once.

Mar 5th

Take off every ‘ZIG’ !!

Mar 3rd

no wireless in the hospital? What kind of shit is that? How do sick people get work done?

Mar 3rd

there’s a tennis ball in my living room. why is there a tennis ball in my living room?

Mar 3rd

multistage WTF

Mar 2nd

w00t for relaxing evening. Energies restored!

Mar 2nd

svn resolved madness. Liking the new rev.

Mar 1st

you really shouldn’t want to quit your job every other day.

Feb 29th

Jason and I are mandating now.

Feb 29th

*chortle*

Feb 28th

Finding $20 on the ground. Awesome. Shocked, awed whispers at coffee shop when leaving $20 tip… even better.

Feb 27th

*sigh* Jank ass wireless at Beaners.

Feb 26th

Jeebus. I have 49,421 points on my amex.

Feb 25th

transferring my amazon ec2 images to the company account.

Feb 25th

Hanging out at the new borders.

Feb 24th