http://jayunit.net thoughts and works Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:12:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://jayunit.net/2009/09/29/smartlab-shenanigans/ 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 ... http://jayunit.net/2009/05/06/railsconf-2009/ 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 ... http://jayunit.net/2009/04/24/diybio-at-codecon-barcampboston-cambridge-science-festival-and-maker-revolution/ 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 ... http://jayunit.net/2009/01/08/kitmakers-class/ 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 ... http://jayunit.net/2009/01/05/new-year-update/ and http://groups.google.com/group/pradiptas-rolodex http://jayunit.net/2008/07/18/the-pradipta-416/ Tags from del.icio.us/jasonpm via wordle.net: http://jayunit.net/2008/06/19/delicioustags/ 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, ... http://jayunit.net/2008/06/06/diybio-is-alive/ 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 ... http://jayunit.net/2008/06/06/jason-joins-team-thoughtbot/ 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 ... http://jayunit.net/2008/04/16/mephisto-to-wordpress/