The Information Enlightenment

I would like to point out that this blog is not indexed by google. After spending the last hour clicking “mark as spam” in the bulk actions menu, I’ve decided to disable commenting on this blog. Dunno why I didn’t do this a *long* time ago. Seriously spammers, it has been interesting reading about all ...

I am happy to follow up my last open shift post with a much more delightful one: I successfully deployed a TurboGears2 quickstart, and added a very simple web page that will allow client-side oauth2.0 authentication. I'm about to be late for a sitdown at Kodak Park, so I won't be able to expound upon ...

After seven tries at getting the foss@rit site migrated to openshift, I must concede… for tonight. Vanilla openshift quickstarter for drupal First attempt was editing by hand, and I installed modules and themes after bumbling around in the new (to me) drupal 7 interface. installed the backup and migrate module, and tried to restore from ...

Right before winter break began, we decided to go out with a bang. We hosted a hackathon for the STEM Video Game Challenge. We had about 2 dozen attendees over the course of the evening, and had about 3 prototype and concept projects go into development by the end. read more

So, after spending some time pouring over some of the high-profile python projects on GitHub, I found a handful of populars and forked to look for bugs. It was successful! read more

The FOSSBox is picking up again I love when we have foss courses running, as it brings much more traffic through the lab. We're also in the process of bringing in another part-time hire to help with FOSS@RIT/LTL projects. We spent the afternoon going over the basics of git, and some of the projects that ...

I am more than excited to be taking the FOSS projects Seminar course here at RIT. This class is shaping up to be all the things they didn't teach you in school that you need to know when you enter into the world of FOSS. Syllabus The RIT Seminar in FOSS Course read more

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Though Seneca county is only 2.5 hours away from Rochester, FOSS@RIT had yet to interact with our neighbors to the southeast, that is until last week. Through Charles Profitt, I was invited along to attend Ithaca's Education Technology Day or EdTechDay for short. EdTechDay is a gathering of education and technology professionals to meet, discuss, ...

/me dug up his old and busted myspace, or my|_______| as it is called now. After a bit of a facelift (+.5 for having a decent javascript-y UI) I checked out their “Open” Developer community and RESTful API. *Almost* signed up for an API key, but quickly rescinded when I got to that pesky Proprietary ...