About: Chris

I don’t normally make New Years resolutions, but this year, I’m going to set a few goals and see how I do. I’m so far off to a really good start with most of these. Move active projects to a Continuous Deployment system with Jenkins and write more unit tests. Increase my use of actionableContinue Reading

On a recent project, I was making use of the django-formwizard app and needed to be able to pull out any one of the fields from the series of forms. On the final step of one of the sample apps, it is suggested that you do something like: form_list = [form.cleaned_data for form in form_list]Continue Reading

Ever since the open sourcing of Everyblock last year, I’ve been really keen to get an EveryBlock site setup for Ottawa. With the latest project from OpenPlans, OpenBlock (based on the Everyblock code) makes this a lot easier to get rolling. I’ve got a demo site up, and am in the process of parsing CanVecContinue Reading

While on vacation in Belgium recently, I came across all sorts of really fantastic public art, and functional “street furniture”.  I’m excited to see what the City of Ottawa will be procuring as part of the Integrated Street Furniture Program. Below you’ll find my roundup of benches in Brussels.

With the recent passing of the Ottawa Cycling Plan, I thought it would be interesting to highlight some of the more innovative cycling-friendly things I’ve seen recently. First up is a bike stand in Berlin that doubles as a bicycle pump: Designed by Studio HiMom, the Heklucht pump was originally developed for an art projectContinue Reading