Seeds and Seeds – Getting Ready For Spring – Pt 1

Seeds and Seeds – Getting Ready For Spring – Pt 1 After hearing about Edible Estates I decided I must have a food garden this year somehow. I got a bit into the whole gardening thing last year with a few trips to Bachman’s and a helping thin out a friend’s mom’s jungle of a yard. From these adventures I now have double white lilacs, a rose bush, mock orange, a bunch...

Overnight Challenge Best Of’s and Coverage

Here are some interesting bits and media coverage – both social and traditional, about the Web Challenge 09. Enjoy. Some interesting info and stats: 12 teams, 12 MN-Nonprofits 120 developers + a number of support staff 3360+ hours in lost sleep Probably 480+ hours in lost productivity today assuming 4 hours per developer half asleep, checking wrap up info, reconnecting with team members,...

Overnight Challenge 2009 Wrap-up : Spoiler – we didn’t win

The Overnight Challenge wrapped up around 10:30 or so today. The overall winner of the event was the organization District 202 (old site here) and their team Praxis. I can’t say for sure on how the judging was conducted, but I’m sure the key was the overall impact to the organization on fulfilling their mission rather than merely the things that “geeks” would otherwise...

Live From Overnight Challenge – 8:30m pt7

Weee. Programming is wrapping up and I think we made it. Everyone is just shuffling around like zombies… zombies on Redbull. We’re about to do our presentations and get the F out of Dodge. In retrospect, this was a thumbs up… but I will definitely be glad when it is...

Live From Overnight Challenge – 6am pt6

Here is some video footage we made of our group as example videos for YEA Corps. We set up some hip crazy cool you tube integrations for their projects and posted this for some demo content. Spladoinkle. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube...