I recently built an open source CSV to VR / 360 video pipeline with my good friend Nick Breen. The documentation on GitHub repo is pretty detailed so it should be easy to start rendering 3d videos of your own data sets! https://github.com/davidrs/vr-dataviz Let me know if you have any issues getting it up and […]
My good friend Patrick the robot is back! This time I have hooked him up to my computer via his Arduino and Johnny-Five (The nodeJS lib for Arduino serial communication). Then I’m using my old xbox kinect to track my movement so Patrick follows along. How it works 1. I hook up the Arduino to my […]
If you’ve tried using NPM’s SinonJS Fake Server with Browserify or Node you will experience this bug ( https://github.com/cjohansen/Sinon.JS/issues/319 ): FakeServer is not wrapped for proper ‘require’ usage. If this ticket’s status has changed to resolved, that is probably the best solution and you can stop reading. Otherwise I found that the minified version from a […]
This week I launched a new web app called CraigIt (http://davidrs.github.io/craigit/client/) CraigIt is a simple idea: hyper-local notifications for items you want on CraigsList. This blog post will explain how I built the entire app, front-end, back-end, design, and mild marketing in just a week. Tech Stack Used JavaScript with jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap 3 […]
This blog post serves to be a living document containing links to various open data sources. Similair Articles by Others: 30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web Some Excellent Open Data Sources Misc Datastores Socrata: https://opendata.socrata.com/dataset/Socrata-Customer-Spotlights/6wk3-4ija Factual: Locations: http://www.factual.com/data/t/places Programmable Web: http://www.programmableweb.com/apis InfoChimps: http://www.infochimps.com/marketplace Google Open Data Sets: http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory Music and Lyrics: http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/ AggData: http://www.aggdata.com/all-aggdata BestBuy: https://bbyopen.com/ Lending Club: loan data: https://www.lendingclub.com/info/download-data.action […]
As of about a year ago I switched over from native development to almost exclusively PhoneGap. It makes development faster, easier, and more fun. This article outlines how to create a fast and beautiful PhoneGap 3.4 app in 5 min. The steps should be the same for other 3.X versions of PhoneGap. You can also use […]
Most start-ups and independent developers run into the same question: Should I use PhoneGap or native to develop my app? Short answer I chose PhoneGap and I’m happy with the results. PhoneGap used to be slow, but v3.0 , released mid 2013, is fast. On modern devices the performance is comparable to native. Final result, […]
I’m happy to announce Steal My Idea ( http://davidrs.com/stealmyidea/ ) has just launched! Steal My Ideas is an e-library of business and social enterprise ideas that are free for anyone to browse, submit, or steal. There are many brilliant ideas out there from people who don’t have the time or resources to implement them (Think about all the […]
If you are interested in trying out programming and have the determination to experiment and try coding on your own, then… congratulations! …you’re awesome!… and here is a list of my 4 top resources for helping you learn how to program. These are in the order in which I think they might be most useful […]
I have an upcoming job interview and have been doing my JavaScript research and review. Here is a great list of JavaScript resources that I’ve been using: Videos JavaScript Closure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWSQ4mWNFPU JavaScript Hoisting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw49K4pxHCU Reading Mozilla Developer: Re-Intro to JS https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript Objects https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Introduction_to_Object-Oriented_JavaScript Activities CodeAcademy – Free http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript CodeSchool – Free / $25-month: Some courses are free, the […]
My passion is designing and developing software for social benefit. I specialize in JS rapid prototyping.
I think Clean Code is a beautiful book and social entrepreneurship is the coolest thing ever.