Posted on June 20, 2011 by Joel Mahoney
One of the exciting things about being in the inaugural class of Code for America Fellows is watching the Code for America culture evolve: hawk screams and git commit messages reverberate through the office; visitors jump into cross-functional teams on …
Posted on April 19, 2011 by Joel Mahoney
It was 9 p.m. on a Friday night and six Code for America Fellows were trying to decide where to go for dinner. It went something like this: Joel: Let’s go to Bindi. They’re right across the street and they’re …
Posted on March 31, 2011 by Joel Mahoney
Last week, Code for America got a visit from Chris Eppstein — creator of the Compass stylesheet authoring framework. Chris stopped by to talk about the latest developments in Compass and SASS, as well as the all-around syntactic goodness of …
Posted on February 23, 2011 by Joel Mahoney
On our first day in Boston, we were excited to join a conference call hosted by the City to announce developer access to its Citizens Connect platform. Citizens Connect is an innovative mobile app that allows residents to use their …
Posted on November 1, 2010 by Joel Mahoney
After college, I took an internship in the urban planning department of a mid-sized, U.S. city. I was excited to learn about the practice of urban planning and to see from the inside how cities continue to evolve. Urban planning, …
