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I’m on github

Yazan: Candace | 19 May 2012 | No Comments
Categories: code, Programming, School, Technology, Tools

I joined github and my first repository is out there, ready for action. I joined github because although I’ve been writing code since high school, there’s precious little of it to be found. Joining github has given me a place to archive, motivation to create, and an opportunity to participate in a culture of sharing. […]

Robo-Sam wants you to guess the number

Yazan: Candace | 11 March 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: code, Family, Kids, Programming, Technology

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been spending Friday evenings programming with my 10-year-old, while his older sibling practices with his soccer team. We started out with python, did some work with Google Fusion Tables, and last week and this week again we’re back to Python. Someone at a recent THATcamp shared a link to Invent […]

Mapping with the kid

Yazan: Candace | 26 February 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: code, Family, Fusion Tables, Google, Life, Maps, Tools, Uncategorized

On Friday nights while my middle kid practices with his soccer team, my youngest and I go to the nearby coffee shop and work on code. He’s 10 years old. Our first project was a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure program in Python, then we moved to a random generator (again in Python), and last night he mapped some […]

City of Windsor’s Open Data: Map of Libraries, Arenas, Community Centres & Heritage Sites

Yazan: Candace | 20 February 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Activism, code, Google, Maps, OpenData, Technology, Uncategorized

This map uses open data from the City of Windsor Open Data Catalogue. If you’re interested in the process used to make this map I’ve included step-by-steps at the bottom of the page. Drag and zoom to explore. Key to icons: Large red = Community Centres Large purple = Libraries Large blue = Arenas Small […]

THATcamp SF Bootcamp: Everything Google with Mano Marks

Yazan: Candace | 12 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: code, Uncategorized

In the spirit of THATcamp and trying new things, I’m trying something new here. If all goes well, my notes from the “Everything Google” Bootcamp this past weekend at THATcamp Bay Area should be embedded below. The session was run by Mano Marks, a developer advocate (DA) at Google. My reflection on the session is […]

An intro to text mining

Yazan: Candace | 11 October 2010 | 3 Comments
Categories: code, Uncategorized

I started my THATcamp Bay Area weekend in a bootcamp session on Text Mining with Aditi Muralidharan, a graduate student at UC Berkely. (@silverasm & http://mininghumanities.com). Links to the slides from the session are here. The session was geared for people who collect the data then ask “what do I do with all this stuff?!?” […]

ProfHacker OpenSearch Plugin

Yazan: Candace | 06 April 2010 | 2 Comments
Categories: Academia, code, Happy, Humanities Computing, Mozilla, Technology, Tools, Web Applications

I’ve been a regular reader of ProfHacker since its launch. The posts (tips and tutorials for higher ed), are helpful – and usually timely. Just as I’m thinking about or needing something, a post turns up providing useful tips, often with links to more info. However, the mass of bookmarks I’ve accumulated is losing its […]

Installing Omeka

Yazan: Candace | 06 November 2009 | No Comments
Categories: code, History, Museums, Omeka

Thanks to debugging help from @Rob_Russell, I managed to get Omeka installed and running on two separate development sites this week. For the most part, the Omeka documentation was great for getting me through the basics of downloading and setting up but I ran in to two problems: one was php-related due to the host […]