For the African Youth Summit this summer ‘09, my group has chosen to focus on Traditional Birth Attendants (midwives) in Ethiopia. Some staggering statistics have made this an especially meaningful subject. While conditions vary from region to region and even village to village, it is said that for parts of Ethiopia, 1 in 10 pregnancies [...]
CraigsList Ticket Finder
roastporkeggfooyoung.com
I realized that I have failed to document some major projects. So that’s what I’m doing now. The above URL ask that you enter an event you would like to keep on on eye for available tickets. It also has a field for maximum price you are willing to spend on the said tickets.
Since we [...]
Thesis: Begin Visuals
Hi there. As many of you readers now by now, for Thesis, I am assigning a location to ALL wikipedia articles (not just the obvi ones like a specific city’s page) and pushing their contents to users of the iPhone application when the given user happens to physically be in the said area. Phew!
With its [...]
Little Computers Final = Done
Well, the functionality at least. The looks/details could use a little work. Just to refresh your memory, I began making a Rangers “for the fans, by the fans” iPhone app based on the simplicity of what skireport.com has put out. Essentially is just a page where fans can quickly comment about recent happenings.
Since my usual [...]
Categorizing Wikipedia
When deciding on sources from which to hone my thesis dataset, I came to the realization that Wikipedia is not very useful in terms of a broad search. Sure it’s helpful with nouns and a quick overview of popular topics, but what if you wanted all of the articles pertaining to something a little more [...]
Takin’ it back to the chatroom kind of
So I’ve discovered that graphics aren’t the easiest thing to deal with in iPhone development. On the other hand, pulling online data, parsing it, and displaying it is fairly straightforward. I really like skireport.com for iPhone. It gives basic real-time info as well as an interface for comments right in the app. I took a [...]