Jekyll has really been a great tool to develop a site with. It allows me to take a bunch of content and lay it into templates to generate a static website, with dynamic-like content, that can be served from nearly anywhere. With jQuery Mobile and some JavaScript thrown in, an entire application is easily born. This was the approach I took with the Portland Women’s History Trail project. However, my troubles began when working to bundle the HTML5/CSS/JavaScript into an native app with Cordova.

Maine Campus Crush is a tile-matching puzzle video game. It is also a challenge game between the University of Maine System campuses. Choose your team and play for the highest scores!

A mobile, web-based version of the Portland Women’s History Trail originally created by Eileen Eagan and Polly Welts Kaufman in Portland (Maine). The app is built using jQuery Mobile and jekyll to create a complete HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript application.

I managed to make contact with the “rarest of the rare” remote locations for amateur radio operators this morning, K1N, on Navassa Island. It’s a tiny place between Hati, Cuba, and Jamacia. It is administered by the US, but remains disputed between the US and Hati.

Here I sit, looking at past projects (portfolio) and posts thinking of the work that goes into the site versus the work that goes into the content. The result is, too much time goes into the site and not enough into the content. There must be an easier way. A way to encourage myself to write more content and avoid my temptation to tinker with site mechanics.

Book notes from The Art Of Memory by Frances A Yates

An updated version of The United States iPad app was released that includes changes to the user interface to make it feel more at home on iOS 7. There were changes to colors and the style of the user interface. Also, corrected a spelling error or two!