The Iron Yard: I recently made the decision to sign up for the front-end engineering with javascript and MVC frameworks course at the Iron Yard here in Houston, which I’m very excited about. I’ve been considering this for a while. I talked to a bunch of alumni, visited The Iron Read more…
ESRI sponsored Geo-Development Hackathon: Today I took part in an event put on by ESRI, the company that provides the software on which the majority of enterprise, academic, and government GIS work takes place. As compared to the Geophysics Hackathon run by AgileGeosciences at the Society of Exploration Geophysics Annual Conference, this Read more…
What is Mapbox? Mapbox is an online map service, like CartoDB, which was discussed in a previous post. The value proposition of this type of services is you get to add a nice looking map to your webpage including the zoom and pan features users expect, without having to mess Read more…
Geophysics Hackathon at S.E.G. annual conference, 2015 October 17th – October 18th, 2015 – New Orleans Over the weekend, I took part in a Geophysics Hackathon run by Agile Geosciences before the 2015 Society of Exploration Geophysicists annual meeting. A hackathon is when people get together and try to create Read more…
Online Mapping: Recently, I’ve been improving my skills in both GIS, web development, and programming. As such, exploring online mapping services and methods, like leaflet, Mapbox and CartoDB, was on the “to do” list. Both CartoDB and Mapbox are sites that allow you to build maps on their webpage and then embed Read more…
“Get Current Address” A Pythonista Script running on iPhone: “Get Current Address” is a pythonista script I created based on some google research. I wanted to take advantage of the iphone’s geolocation and geocoding abilities. I was also attempting to fill a very small niche. Although google maps and apple maps Read more…
An App for Running Small Python Scripts On iPhone: Pythonista is an app for the iphone that allows you to run python scripts. It doesn’t have completely full python capabilities, but the modules available are still impressive. It has the full numpy and matlab lib for example. The examples that Read more…
2048 Numbers Game Another project built for the online Python Class I was taking, 2048 is a game in which you move numbers around a board. Like numbers merge in pairs. For example blocks of 2 and 2 becomes a single 4. You move all the blocks at once in Read more…
Excessive Pong Another project for the online python class was to build your own version of the home arcade game, pong. The project applied what we had previously learned about user interface, use of time functions, lists, dictionaries, etc. The project instructions stipulated that the ball speed should include a Read more…
Building an arcade game for class: As part of a series of classes I’ve been taking through Coursera / Rice University, I’ve built a few clones of old school arcade games. The idea is building games is fun (because you can play them) and therefore students will be more motivated Read more…