Gavin Blair gavinblair

City Council voted August 27th, 2013 on whether to clear a woodland to build a mall (they voted YES). Before the vote, I attempted to raise some awareness about the issue by building PenEquity Woodland Vote - it uses an Open Council API to turn your address into the correct Ward number, then compares it to a spreadsheet that knows which councillor is planning on voting YES or NO.

Technology used:

PenEquity Woodland Vote

A gifparty is something I just made up right now. I guess it's like a youtube party, but with gifs.

This app will pull in gifs from a Google spreadsheet, display each for 10 seconds. It continually checks the spreadsheet for updates and adds new gifs to the end of the queue.

Make your own gifparty

Fork the repository, switch to the branch gh-pages

Mirrors gifs. Uses css3 transforms, so it's kindof useless.

Example

gifmirror Code

QRPong allows two players to connect to a game by scanning a QR code with their mobile devices. The game happens on a computer or TV screen, while the phones are used as controllers. Try it out!

Technology used:

qrpong

QRapt is a fork of QRPong that allows two players to connect to a game of Robots are People Too by scanning a QR code with their mobile devices. The game happens on a computer or TV screen, while the phones are used as controllers. Try it out!

Technology used:

Play QRapt

I found out that I had a problem with gluten in February 2012. It wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be to go gluten free. There are only really three recurring issues that I constantly face:

If something is gluten free, it doesn't mean that I will like it - There are a LOT of gluten free products out there. A lot of it tastes like sand.
I miss beer. - I have taken to drinking White Russians. That's a hell of a caucasian, Jackie
If I don't pack a lunch, I'm screwed. - I have about four go-to lunches in downtown London. This list starts to feel pretty short after a while, and it severely limits options when going out with others.

While I can't do much about the first two (besides becoming The Dude), I can at least crowdsource some options for lunch downtown! Check it out, and if you know any gluten free meals downtown, please add to the list.

Open Council is happening! Currently a London implementation of Kevin O'Donnell's OttWatch system is working hard on pulling meetings from London's SIRE system, making it so you can discuss individual council meetings publicly.

A very important part of the original vision for Open Council was the ability to view council votes by councillor. We are almost there! London records their votes in a very different way than Ottawa, however, and we've run into a bit of a snag.

So, I have a programming challenge for you!

Given a council meeting's minutes from London's implementation of SIRE, output the motions made and the voting results in a machine-readable format.

	import sublime, sublime_plugin


	class FunctionInStatusListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
	def on_deactived(self, view):
	view.erase_status('function name')

	def on_close(self, view):
	view.erase_status('function name')

	/**
	* Add the domain module setup routine.
	*/
	include DRUPAL_ROOT . '/sites/all/modules/domain/settings.inc';

	(function(ns){

	//private scoping
	var privVar = '...';
	function priv(){...}

	//expose a function
	ns.myFunc = function(){...};

	}(this.myLib = this.myLib \|\| {}));