National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. March 25, 2010.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Application Gallery - NYC BigApps
Ride the City
Spokes NYC
Matt A., Brooklyn
Data Set(s) used: LION: single line street base map GIS: MapInfo Table, CITYRACKS: City Bicycle Parking Racks
Spokes NYC is a free iPhone application (available here) for New York City cyclists. It generates ideal bike routes with turn by turn directions for cyclists within city limits. Other features include a bike rack locator, bike shop locator, and the ability to report thefts from a... [read more]
Website http://www.8bstudio.net
Video of Applicationhttp://www.screencast.com/t/ZjliNjQyY
NYC.ByCycle.info
Adam C., NYC
Data Set(s) used: cityracks.kml - a list of bike racks installed
NYC.ByCycle.info allows users to locate the nearest bike racks to their current detected location or a specified address. Bikers can save time and ensure their bike's safety by using this tool.
Website http://nyc.bycycle.info
Saturday, December 19, 2009
NCIIA 14th Annual Conference | NCIIA
NCIIA 14th Annual Conference
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. March 25, 2010.
Mayavi User Guide — Mayavi v3.3.1 documentation
Welcome. This is the User Guide for Mayavi (version 3.3.1), the scientific data visualization and 3D plotting tool in Python.
Interactive usage examples | ||
Using the Mayavi application | ||
Python scripting for 3D plotting | ||
Gallery and examples |
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor - A Fish Oil Story - NYTimes.com
Paul Greenberg is the author of the forthcoming “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.”
The Best Walking Partner: Man vs. Dog - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
CYCLING: Rochester: an emerging world-class cycling spot - News Articles - Rochester City Newspaper
CYCLING: Rochester: an emerging world-class cycling spot
By Jeremy Moule on December 16, 2009
One way to make the region more bicycle-friendly is for municipalities to make sure they connect existing trails and trail segments. Over the past decade or so there has been progress, DeSarra says.The Erie Canal trail and the Genesee Valley Greenway are examples; they even connect to each other. But there's still work to be done on those trails, such as making more connections or offering better markings.
The Greenway, combined with the Genesee Riverway, provides a straight shot from RIT to downtown, says Jon Schull, an RIT professor who's involved in bicycling-related projects at the school. The Greenway and Riverway are actually the most direct way to get from RIT to downtown. And the University or Rochester is along the way.
Students could live downtown "without having to worry about cars and parking and all of that," Schull says. "So I see that as a real transportation innovation that could make a difference."
The Greenway and the Erie Canal trail are not complete or connected in certain parts, mostly in lesser-populated areas. If they were, those paths could be useful to commuters, Dollard says. They could act as a bicycle highway from outlying areas into the city.
On a broader scale, there's the potential to connect trails from Lake Ontario and the City of Rochester to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, via 230 miles of trails, including the Genesee Riverway Trail and the Genesee Valley Greenway. The only hurdle is a few short gaps and one 20-mile gap that need to be connected, Schull says.
And that doesn't even touch on the cycling opportunities that are available in the Finger Lakes region, east of the Greenway. Bike-based scenic tours and wine country tours are already popular.
(read the rest)Ever confused, cyclist Jon Schull leads the way
"We are already one of the best bicycling destinations in the world, but no one is telling that story," says Schull, a member of the newly formed Rochester Cycling Alliance, an advocacy group. "And if you were going to tell that story, you'd want to take care of a few embarrassments, like what's the right way to ride to High Falls? And how do I get from High Falls back on the trail that will take me up to Seneca Park and Lake Ontario?"
Schull is one of several people trying to hammer home just how close the Rochester region is to becoming a world-class cycling destination.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Extreme Programming Roadmap
- DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork encourages us not to over (or under)-engineer;
- AskTheCode because it knows; CodeSmells if it has a problem; ListenToTheCode;
- UnitTests ensure that we don't break one another's code;
- AcceptanceTests tell us how we're progressing against user needs;
- An OnsiteCustomer to make sure we build business value;
- ContinuousIntegration helps avoid IntegrationHell;
- ContinuousIntegrationRelentlessTesting ditto;
- RefactorMercilessly keeps the code clean and speeds progress;
- and see also WikiPagesAboutRefactoring;
- PairProgramming gives higher quality, great cross-training, and higher speed; (mailing list: PairProgramming);
- SpikeSolution helps explore the area we're working on;
- ModelFirst plus SpartanUserInterface helps us concentrate on real customer value
- ExtremePlanning suggests quickly building a map of the whole imagined system and incrementally refining it
- The PlanningGame formalizes the rituals and roles of planning
- CountDownToRelease discusses how to use the ExtremePlanning practices when you're getting close to release
- ExtremeReuse - adopting third party software and making it XP-compatible by building tests
- TossIt - making projects trim and keeping projects trim
- SystemMetaphor - how we communicate the system to ourselves and others
- XpDesign - who does the design in an XP project, and when?
- XpSimplicityRules
- OnceAndOnlyOnce
- ExtremeDocuments - we do documentation, sometimes differently
- SupportCrisis - what to do until the doctor comes
- IncrementalDelivery
- LazyOptimization and EarlyProfiling
- OpenWorkspace
- UserStory - like use cases, but different
- EngineeringTask - a UserStory gets broken down into these
- IterativeDevelopment - tends to be a natural result of ContinuousIntegration and ContinuousIntegrationRelentlessTesting andDoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork at each iteration
- DynamicDesign - from RefactorMercilessly and short Code-Compile-Debug cycle
- FewerWorkHours [important]