20. Jun 2010 
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Brian Gershon headed down to White Center to see the final event of the season for TAF’s TechStart program.
“TechStart is TAF’s free, yearlong after-school program for students in kindergarten through 8th grade. The focus of TechStart is providing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) enrichment to underserved children of color through project-based learning and advanced [...]
20. Jun 2010 
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Alex Tokar, Yonas Seifu and Brian Gershon went down to check out the final projects at Technology Access Foundation’s Academy class in Federal Way.
This was the first class there to teach JavaScript, taught by Seth Nelson and Susan Evans.
We saw Tic-Tac-Toe, a yo-yo animation, a Magic Eight Ball game, “guess that image”, and even a slot [...]
17. Jan 2010 2 comments
There was a nice turnout of around 40 people at the SURF Incubator on Wednesday Jan 13th.
There were really three events being held at the same time:
SURF Open House
SURF iPhone Coding Night Meetup
and a last minute merge of the “iPhone App Developers” Meetup
The merging of events ultimately created a room full of interesting and engaged [...]
25. Sep 2009 0 comments
For each project I work on, I have a multitude of files, folders, applications, and web pages.
My goal is to have shortcuts in one place, organized by project, as the ultimate launcher.
Here were some good initial attempts:
Firefox bookmarks might be a nice way to go, but doesn’t make it easy to link to local files, [...]
14. Sep 2009 0 comments
After catching the great videos from last year’s first DjangoCon I looked forward to attending this year. I’m glad I went.
We’ll be discussing “What did we learn at DjangoCon?” at this Thursday’s Django Seattle. See http://www.djangoseattle.org for more details.
In the meantime, here are some high-level take-aways:
Should JavaScript and RESTful services be part of the Django [...]
02. Sep 2009 9 comments
UPDATE: Thanks to the helpful commenters, I found success getting an older Zope instance running on Python 2.4 on Snow Leopard using buildout.
NOTE: This post is for installing Python 2.4 on a brand new Snow Leopard Instance. If upgrading on top of Leopard, you may have to update easy_install, macports, etc. More Googling around may [...]
29. Aug 2009 2 comments
I’m using the Snow Leopard upgrade as a chance to add some extra life to my (older) MacBook Pro (2,2).
My goals:
Max out memory to 3GB (up from 2 GB) — $29
Upgrade hard-drive to 500GB (up from 120GB) – $129 for a 2.5″ Seagate Momentus SATA 7200 RPM. My current drive is 5400 RPM, so this [...]
27. Jul 2009 0 comments
New Django Seattle Website
Thanks to 14 Sprinters who came together on July 25, we now have a Django Seattle Website at http://www.djangoseattle.org
There was a lot of infrastructure work done at the sprint which is still in development and didn’t make it to the live site yet — but the experience of getting to know each [...]
25. Mar 2009 1 comment
I primed the pump on the flight to PyCon by catching up on my reading. “Expert Python Programming” (Tarek Ziade) reminded me that I wanted to play with ipython shell and virtualenv (just learned today about the handy extension “virtualenvwrapper”), and reinforced and offered many great Best Practices.
Optimization Tutorial
I then got on my geek at [...]
12. Feb 2009 0 comments
Congratulations to Jon Ramer from The Interra Project, and Mark Okazaki from Neighborhood House for winning this year’s Bill Grace Leadership Legacy Award awards from the Center for Ethical Leadership.
Both the Interra Project and Center for Ethical Leadership are clients (and friends) of ours at Web Collective and we’re impressed with the great work they [...]