Posted by Jason Morrison | Sep 29th, 2009

SmartLab shenanigans

Whither lurk multitouch, tactile computing, and lab instrument hacking?  I’ve started to work on the SmartLab project again.  You can see what I am up to on the SmartLab tumblr.

Posted by Jason Morrison | May 6th, 2009

See you at RailsConf!

If you’re going to RailsConf this week, let’s grab some drinks and catch up! I’m looking forward to hanging out with my awesome coworkers, my Ruby friends from all around, and giving a lightning talk on the BioWeatherMap Initiative at the ActiveResearch “Science on Rails” evening (Tuesday at 7:30pm). Update: I’ve uploaded my talk from ActiveResearch to SlideShare:  “BioWeatherMap...

Posted by Jason Morrison | Apr 24th, 2009

DIYbio at CodeCon, BarCampBoston, Cambridge Science Festival, and Maker Revolution

In a whirlwind two weekends, I’ve given a DIYbio talk with Kay Aull and Mac Cowell at CodeCon 2009 and will be at the Cambridge Science Festival (details), BarCamp Boston 4, and The Maker Revolution (Sunday at 1:00pm). CodeCon was a fantastic experience – San Francisco was enjoyable as always, and it was stimulating to be around so many incredibly bright folks. Thanks again to Len, Bram, and all...

Posted by Jason Morrison | Jan 8th, 2009

Kitmakers class

Monday, Jan 5 2009: Tonight is the first night of nublabs‘ Kitmakers course.  I’m excited to see how it goes! I’m primarily interested in building equipment for do-it-yourself biology, such as an inexpensive, high quality gel electrophoresis apparatus. – cut to Thursday, Jan 8 – …and today was the second night.  There were notably fewer people tonight, but it rocked anyhow. ...

Posted by Jason Morrison | Jan 5th, 2009

New Year update

Hey folks!  It’s been a while (whew… 6 months?) since my last update here.  Here are a few things I’ve been up to, and what my plans over the next few months are: Built and delivered awesome web applications with thoughtbot, and will help to roll out a beginning Rails thoughtbot training course later this January. Attended RailsConf, RubyConf, the Lone Star Ruby Conference, and...

Posted by Jason Morrison | Jul 18th, 2008

The Pradipta 416

and http://groups.google.com/group/pradiptas-rolodex

Posted by Jason Morrison | Jun 19th, 2008

del.icio.us.tags

Tags from del.icio.us/jasonpm via wordle.net:

Posted by Jason Morrison | Jun 6th, 2008

DIYbio is alive!

DIYbio is an organization for the ever expanding community of citizen scientists and DIY biological engineers that value openness & responsibility.  DIYbio aims to be an “Institution for the Amateur” — an umbrella organization that provides some of the same resources afforded by more traditional institutions like academia and industry, such as access to a community of experts, to technical...

Posted by Jason Morrison | Jun 6th, 2008

Jason joins team thoughtbot!

A little while back, I resigned from my position at VistaPrint to take a great opportunity at thoughtbot, inc in downtown Boston.  I’ll be starting with them on Monday, June 9, and am super excited to join their small and dynamic team.  Initially, I’ll be working on tools for the Nature Publishing Group like Nature Network. I got to hang out with some of the team at RailsConf, see some top-secret...

Posted by Jason Morrison | Apr 16th, 2008

Mephisto to WordPress

An easy way to import a Mephisto blog into WordPress is by using a Python script for extracting a WordPress-friendly WXR file from Mephisto (which can be imported via the WordPress web admin interface), which eventually worked like a charm. I had to modify it to use MySQL, and to look at a different date field for publication (my Mephisto install was returning Null in the field m2wp.py was looking at). ...