We built a Canadian Illustrated History Collection for Formac/Lorimer Publishers some time ago. It allows users to do full text searches across a library of books, and then view the results within the full books themselves inside a book viewer.

I love the feeling of opening up a blank index.html file and cowboy coding a little JS web audio API spaghetti. Here’s a generative music project I built last night. If this thing could talk it would say, “Hold my beer!” In the spirit of rando I...

We recently developed a companion application to our Useful Nova Scotia Plants application. This one is called Harmful Nova Scotia Plants.

Once again, the content was developed by Marian Munro, botany curator of the Nova Scotia Museum. This one does...

I won’t delve too deep here into the current politics or quality of the Chronicle Herald, suffice it to say that workers have been on strike for about a year, and if this article was any indication, things are rough in the “newsroom” – I would hazard...

I’ve been building mobile applications for iOS, Android and PWA with Ember, that rely on no external API for data. They don’t even rely on Ember Data, just POJOs. This is how I set up full text search for one such app.

Elasticlunr and ember-browserify...

Sheldon McLeod interviewed Marian Munro on his News 95.7 radio show recently about our Useful Nova Scotia Plants application.

The studio interview with Marian Munro aired Wednesday November 3nd, 2016.

Here’s a link to the audio:

http://pmd.news957...

CBC Radio featured our Useful Nova Scotia Plants application on Information Morning Nova Scotia with Don Connolly.

The studio interview with Marian Munro aired Wednesday November 2nd, 2016 at 8:15am.

Marian shared sweetfern tea in the studio with...

Updates

• Wed Nov 28, 2018: Webfaction is also now offering Lets Encrypt install through their control panel!
• Sat Mar 17, 2018: ouranos pointed out that I did not include –config flag in cron note
• Fri Nov 18, 2016: Let’s Encrypt webfaction now supports...

Over the course of the past year we developed, and have recently released, a Useful Nova Scotia Plants mobile application. The application was a collaboration with Marian Munro, the Nova Scotia Museum’s Curator of Botany, and includes photographic...

I recently developed a little Ember application for logging information about my Kombucha brewing obsession hobby. Given that it’s a free aplication that will serve literally just me a very niche market, I thought that Firebase hosting would be a good...