Posted on April 11, 2012 by Zach Williams in CfA Labs
Last summer, I created the Python Open311 API wrapper for Code for America (I was a Google Summer of Code intern then, I’m a fellow now), and now want to introduce its successor, Three: http://github.com/codeforamerica/three If you’ve ever worked with …
Posted on April 11, 2012 by Ryan Resella in CfA Labs
At the time of this writing our GitHub page has 196 repositories: github.com/codeforamerica Everything that we build at Code for America is a open source. On our Github we have various government API wrappers in Ruby, PHP, and Python. We …
Posted on April 9, 2012 by Jesse Bounds in 2012 fellows, CfA Labs
Code for America fellows are presented with a unique and fun challenge: Create innovative web applications using bleeding edge technologies that cities can eventually host themselves. The issue there is often the “bleeding edge” part of that equation can be …
Posted on October 21, 2011 by John Mertens in CfA Labs, Philadelphia
Moments after giving a talk on open data and code reuse at the Code for America Summit, Ben Berkowitz (SeeClickFix) and Aaron Ogle (CfA) grabbed me and said, “can we make a simple map mashup of all the murals verses …
Posted on October 18, 2011 by Dan Melton in CfA Labs
Last night, Github held a thank you party to celebrate a huge milestone, 1 million users. To put that in perspective, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the US employs around 1.3 million software developers. Even factoring in international and …
Posted on September 27, 2011 by John Mertens in Boston, CfA Labs
Last time I wrote about how to build a US-wide farmers’ market API in under an hour. Today, I want to walk through a larger challenge to highlight some of the tools & techniques we are using at Code for …
Posted on September 8, 2011 by Justin Stoller in 2011 Interns, CfA Labs
When the summer started off, we broke into teams of two or three and worked on to build out developer tools for our chosen datasets, though soon enough we were constantly conferring and getting advice from each other. (We literally …
Posted on August 26, 2011 by Ronaldo Barbachano in 2011 Interns, CfA Labs
As one of the first interns at CfA, I am pleased with my experience with both CFA and Google Summer of Code. This summer I was assigned to develop PHP libraries on existing government related projects. Much of my work …
Posted on August 24, 2011 by Dan Melton in CfA Labs, News
Last fall, Luigi Montanez and I were sitting in the auditorium at the International Open Data Conference brainstorming about ways to get developers more interested in civic coding. He had just completed a whirlwind tour of ruby meetups, conferences and …
Posted on August 19, 2011 by Erik Michaels-Ober in CfA Labs
What is Whyday? It’s a day dedicated to Why the Lucky Stiff, a programming hero of mine. He created Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby, which served as my introduction to the Ruby programming language. He’s also authored a massive collection of …
Extreme Heroku: A Polyglot PaaS Civic Application!
GitHub Hits 1 Million – Thanks for Hosting Our Movement
