4 July 2011 Comments Off on msu.seum, sustainability, and the future

msu.seum, sustainability, and the future

To begin, I’d like to illustrate msu.seum by the numbers… 6 CHI fieldschool students 2 programmers 2 UX designers 2 content curators 10 days 60 hours… officially – some have kept working off the clock! over 1000 commits to our file repository 42 folders and subfolders 300+ files, all manually generated and coded msu.seum is […]

26 June 2011 1 Comment

Deciphering Code

As part of the programming team for msu.seum, our task was to dive head first into Phonegap, jQuery Mobile, Google Maps API and the various flavors of javascript included in them. In order to start building the app, we had to quickly get our bearings with the various frameworks and APIs. Below, are some of the strategies […]

25 June 2011 1 Comment

SVNs, APIs, and Android Emulators (oh my)

After a long week of project-ing, it’s nice to sit back and reflect.  With the deadline of our final project fast approaching, the 9am to 4pm days of the fieldschool have become all-out workdays, everyone sat dutifully at a laptop computer chugging away on his or her own assignments.  Curation of the aural environment is […]