Archive for September, 2009

Further Adventures in Rails Testing

Yesterday I went to “Hack Day ‘Effective Testing for Rails Projects’” at Viget Labs in Falls Church.  After Ruby DCamp I decided I was severely lacking in testing skills as a developer and I’m trying to do something to remedy that.  With the promise of “building a simple Rails application and a pair-programming environment” as [...]

September 27, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Ruby, TDD  No Comments

MappingDC OSM Editing Tips and Tricks

On Wednesday this week we are having the first edition of “OSM Editing Tips and Tricks” for MappingDC. Every time I get together with other OpenStreetMap contributors I learn something that makes it easier to edit/add data to OSM.  The last time I edited together in a room with others was at WhereCamp5280.  Mostly [...]

September 21, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: MappingDC, OSM  No Comments

Ruby DCamp Day Two

In the past I’ve had a history of only posting about the first day of a barcamp.  This is my attempt to buck that trend.
The second day of Ruby DCamp was just as awesome as the first.  For visual proof of how great it was there is the rubydcamp tag on flickr. There is something [...]

September 20, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Ruby, unconferences  No Comments

Ruby DCamp Day One

This is really a non-geo post, but I currently do a lot of geo-related programming in Ruby.
Ruby DCamp is the first unconference/barcamp I’ve attended where we actually camped. I’ve been to barcamps such as WhereCamp that had a history of camping, but happened to be unable to the year I attended.  So far I [...]

September 18, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Ruby, unconferences  No Comments

Mapping the Zoo!

On September 12th MappingDC is going to join the OpenStreetMap meme of mapping zoos in great detail.  A good example of this is the Dresden Zoo.
Other well mapped zoos I found were in Hannover, Berlin, Leipzig and Frankfurt.
We plan to start by digitizing from the imagery available ahead of time and then utilizie GPS and Walking Papers [...]

September 5, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: GPS, OSM  4 Comments