Archive for the ‘Featured’ Category

I've been going through a bunch of old stuff I've written as I clean up things. There will be a rash of posts where I take code I've written in different projects to see how things work and that are potentially useful, just no implemented in anything that...

Down with Reuters!

September 26, 2008 | In: Featured

A couple of years I went to up the Center for History and New Media with a few folks here at William and Mary and talked with Roy Rosensweig about this cool new thing they were working on for Firefox. He told us the story of how they were searching for a...

Enough is Enough!

September 15, 2008 | In: Featured, Football

Growing up, I didn't watch football. When I got to college, it was one of the few pleasures I had on Sundays while stuck on post at VMI. At that point, I picked the Detroit Lions as the team to pull for. Bobby Ross was the head coach (a VMI alum), Barry...

I'm working on an NEH funded collaborative research grant entitled "Measuring the Social, Spatial, and Temporal Dimensions of Virginia Slave Housing." The project is exciting because it's taking existing architectural, archaeological, and documentary...

Facebook App

July 18, 2008 | In: Featured, Programming, Projects

Phil and I (mostly Phil) have been working on getting the code for our Facebook application ready to be released on Google Code. Phil has done a phenomenal job in getting the code ported to FBML so we don’t have to use the lib_gd stuff any more to...