All About Bloomsday Halifax 2024
I recently adapted my location-based mobile multimedia platform NowHere to bring James Joyce's "Ulysses" to life in Halifax. This is an omnibus listing of all the blog posts I've written about it.
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Punk Rock Software at Next Week's Halihax
I'll be giving an updated version of my "Punk Rock Software" talk at the "Halihax Frontend Meetup" on September 27 at 6pm
My New Ultra-Lightweight Personal Site
As social media is collapsing, I'm bringing back blogging. I rebuilt my personal site recently and it's extremely lightweight.
Halihax JS Meetup
Last night for the first time in ages I went to a tech event. In person. With pizza. And presentations!
Back at it
(tap tap) Is this thing still on?
My Expanded Twitter Thread about BurgerWeek 2021
Continuing my annual tradition, I put together a quick-search page for Halifax Burger Week 2021, scraping the official site for data. This time I tweeted about the whole process. I've collected the thread here.
This Is Nowhere: The Server Side
Behind every great mobile app is a great server CMS delivering data and managing traffic.
Building a React Native App Without Tears - Part 3
After all that configurating, we're ready to actually start writing some React Native code!
Building a React Native App Without Tears - Part 2
More details on how to set up and configure a React Native app
Building a React Native App Without Tears (Mostly)
React Native is wonderful to develop in - except for all the hiccups and twiddly configuration things that need to be done to get it to actually run on a device.
This Is Nowhere: The Memento Edition
Relive "This Is Nowhere" with the memento edition of the app.
This Is Nowhere: Aspects of Accessibility
The This Is Nowhere project had accessibility in mind from the start - and it led to some surprising insights.
Presentations About NowHere
Over the last year or so I've been working on a big software/theatre project called This Is Nowhere. Here are some presentations I've done about it.
This Is Nowhere: Head-First Into React Native
It was looking like I would be doomed to support multiple codebases for our mobile app requirements - but React Native saved the day. Mostly.
This Is Nowhere: Bloomsday Halifax
This Is Nowhere is more than just a one-off thing. It's supposed to be a platform and toolkit for building different kinds of projects. For example, I built an app guide to James Joyce's "Ulysses"
This Is Nowhere: Why an HTML/JavaScript Single-Page App With GPS Is A Bad Idea
Building a mobile app with HTML and JavaScript is great in terms of speed and flexibility, but if you need GPS access ... there are problems.
This Is Nowhere: GPS and Wayfinding and More UX
One of the keys to the This Is Nowhere app was helping the user find their way to destinations - but not being *too* helpful. GPS was important to this, but there were still many challenges.
This Is Nowhere: The Single-Button UX
The This Is Nowhere client app had some challenging usability requirements, but we came up with something that worked pretty well.
This Is Nowhere: Don’t Just Stand There!
The journey from idea to live is a long one, and takes lots of prototypes and false starts - which for me always have to be real working software.
This Is Nowhere: Finding My Duck
I’ve worked on my software projects over the years, but I also have two English degrees and was a drama club nerd back in High School and College. I think I may have found the perfect project for me.