Archive for October, 2008

McMaster Room #314

Just a quick update to let you all know we will be meeting in Room #314 of the USC McMaster College which is at 1615 Senate St. There should be plenty of meter parking available along Senate and Pickens and you shouldn’t have to pay after 6pm.
Also, we said before that there would be 6 [...]


October 2008 Meetup

Join us for the special Halloween addition of our regular monthly meetup which is appropriately titled: The Bleeding Edge of the Web. This month we’ll have a new format, a new location, and a new promo poster.
New Format: Lightning Talks
Usually, we have 2 speakers give 30 minute presentations. This month we’re going to [...]


Eyeballing Game

I’m going to throw down the proverbial gauntlet here and challenge you all to a game of visual accuracy and anal retentiveness.  It’s called the eyeballing game and the goal is to move a point around with sub-pixel accuracy to correct a series of geometries.  Here’s my submission: 2.43

Game on! Post your best score in [...]


SC Ruby Conference 2008

I wasn’t even aware we had a Ruby developer group here in Columbia. My wife saw this conference advertised in the engineering building at USC so I thought I’d pass on the deets.
When: Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Where: Amoco Hall at USC (directions)
How Much: $35 ($25 for Students) - Includes a t-shirt & lunch. Registration deadline [...]


Job Lead - UI Designer

I was just handed a job lead for a User Interface Design position with the State Budget and Control Board’s Office of Research and Statistics. You can take a look at the official description if you like.
Here is their description:
Incumbent will design user interfaces and graphics for dynamic web applications for the Health and Demographics [...]