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December 10, 2008

Washed out gray is the new black

Filed under: code, couchdb, transportation — jmarca @ 1:33 pm

I was working on Sakai help yesterday and decided that using CouchDB might be the way to go if I ever got some time to try to replace Sakai’s default help system.  (more…)

November 18, 2008

couchdb

Filed under: code, transportation — jmarca @ 5:50 pm

Stumbled across couchdb thanks to the Sakai devel mailing list.  Looks cool, but I need to use it before I can get my head around what it might be able to do.  I think a good toy application that will also be useful is to code up Mike’s glossary using it.  That would be good because the limitation of a wiki is that when you want to add links to existing pages, you have to guess or whatnot, and anyway a wiki is not a glossary.  I just want a dynamic, editable, cross-linked glossary.  That isn’t hand-generated!

October 30, 2008

If you’re not a Socialist, you’re antisocial!

Filed under: bikes, research, transportation — jmarca @ 1:22 pm

My goodness maglev PRT is an astoundingly stupid idea.

September 24, 2008

Wacky Ideas

Filed under: bikes, research, transportation — jmarca @ 11:48 am

So I was writing an email and considering the different strengths of Transims/Matsim vs a microsimulator, and I wrote that Transims can help us analyze big policy questions like what if we replaced all of the freeways with bike lanes. (more…)

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