Monthly Archives: March 2009

Nerding out with Ruby, Tokyo Cabinet, Hpricot, Twitter, Sinatra, Haml & Passenger

By gavin | Published: March 22, 2009
[Update: The service described in this article has been relocated to http://gavinmcgovern.com] I wanted to get back into Ruby and since it’s been many years I went for total immersion. Only one rule: don’t use anything I used in the past. So easy; everything is pretty much new to me now. The project: grab the names [...]
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The Mad Men of Modern Design « The Selvedge Yard

By gavin | Published: March 18, 2009
The Mad Men of Modern Design « The Selvedge Yard
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The Mad Men of Modern Design « The Selvedge Yard

By gavin | Published: March 18, 2009
The Mad Men of Modern Design « The Selvedge Yard
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The Wall: A Next Generation Retail Experience

By gavin | Published: March 17, 2009
The Wall: A Next Generation Retail Experience | Artefact | Blog
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GrandCentral Lives

By gavin | Published: March 12, 2009
I used to have a less dramatic & glittery Call Me button on my About page. It was fun: received some strange and interesting messages. But over the years just a single business-related legit call. So to celebrate the new GrandCentral lease on life, I’ll leave this up for awhile.
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MacRuby easing you into Core Graphics

By gavin | Published: March 9, 2009
MacRuby is now v0.4 and HotCocoa::Graphics gets a little better too. Inspiration for this project was derived from Processing and NodeBox. These excellent Java- and Python-based graphics programming environments are mature and full-featured, but HCG offers similar functionality using the elegant Ruby programming language and the power of native graphics processing on Mac hardware. Many more [...]
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Formosa 1140 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

By gavin | Published: March 5, 2009
Formosa 1140 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects My brush with greatness happened in the late 90s at some nameless start-up flush with pretend money. Our creative director knew Mr. O’Herlihy and invited him up to build out our offices. Sadly it never happened. But I’ve been a fan ever since.
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No more data soup

By gavin | Published: March 4, 2009
Ran across this book “Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts” and liked the blurb: We are visual animals. But before we can see the world in its true splendor, our brains, just like our computers, have to sort and organize raw data, and then transform that data to produce new images of the world. Beginning [...]
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