All Geekness Great and Small

Archive for March, 2009

I’m doubly excited today. It’s BarCampAustin time and it’s Pi Day!
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Thanks to Michelle Greer for announcing the arrival of NerdNite in Austin.

NerdNite is like the Discovery Channel with beer. JC Dwyer and I are bringing NerdNite from Boston and New York to Austin. Starting March 26th, we plan to host a NerdNite on the last Thursday of every month at Opal Divine’s. You can email us at nerdniteaustin(at)gmail.com for more information or if you’d like to present one month.

We welcome all-comers. As far was we’re concerned, a nerd is just a person with a fascination for a topic, not normally shared by others. At NerdNite, you can share with the group thanks to the gentle lubricating power of beer!

The other day, the preDevCamp team published our ‘PreView’ map at http://predevcamp.org/preView.html. In this post, I’ll talk about how it was put together.

PreView is a combination of the Google Maps API and the Twitter API. Without wanting to shatter the mystique, I’m going to outline how I set about creating PreView.
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