Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Philanthropic Web Design

Moving the Dev Club back to it's native land of weekends proper is great. Topics of conversation this week included;
  • National Day of Civic Hacking
    • Dev Club App Jam
    • HTML & CSS & Design Philanthropy 
  • Project Euler
    • Calculation, and Omniscience
  • Kaggle
  • Relational Databases
    • Microsoft Access & The Value of Good Tutorials
    • Joins
  • News Site APIs
  • Headaches and the Wunderground
  • Lexponential
  • Ballistics Calculations and MatLab
Next time we'll do some philanthropic web design: HTML and CSS for a beautiful cause with an ugly website.

P.S.
I'm so sorry I went on about the Fermi Paradox, when what I should have been talking about was Dark Matter, Bostrom's Simulated Universe conjecture, and the importance of minding your base when doing binary arithmetic.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Six Fingered Miracles

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The fact that you're actually making something, birthing a new thing into the world, is incredibly important and beautiful. It doesn't matter if the edges aren't straight or the angles aren't 90 degrees. It doesn't matter if your baby has six fingers. It's still a miracle.