I was reading my feeds at work before going home, and this one caught my eye. I watched it and actually started weeping. Not bad tears, but just… special tears for times gone by. If one piece of animation should make me cry, I’m glad it’s this piece of footage I grew up with — heck it’s about as old as I am. Makes me feel proud to be a New Zealander… 
Archive for the ‘New Zealand’ Category
“Goodnight Kiwi” Owns Me Good.
Monday, November 6th, 2006WellRailed’s “Getting started with Ruby on Rails”
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Tim Haines writes:
Tomek, Nahum, and I are organising a Rails session for newbies this month. We aim to make it the best Rails session yet. We’ve organised some books to give away, a discount for O’Rielly, and will be putting on Pizza (and hopefully beer if we find a sponser.
The session will be about building a basic blog app, but the overriding theme will be to get the uninitiated but curious, and the beginners along, and give them a taste of the good stuff. We aim to nuture their curiousity into a love of Rails – which will benefit the entire Wgtn software development scene.
What: Getting started with Ruby on Rails – a community based approach
When: 6:30pm, Tuesday, 31st October 2006
Where: CreativeHQ, 25a Marion Street, Te Aro, Wellington (behind Resene Paint)
Presented by: Nahum Wild
Intended audience: Anyone interested in Ruby on Rails.
Prerequisites: Interest in Ruby on Rails. Knowledge of programming in any language will be useful during the live demo.
Refreshments: Hell pizza
Cost: Free. It’s a community event. It is our turn to give back.
The format will be as follows:
- Arrive between 6:30 and 7pm.
- Start at 7pm: Welcome and introduction
- Quick overview of Ruby on Rails and its main underlying design pattern: Model-View-Controller
- An end to end demonstration of how to build a simple blog application in Rails.
- Q&A time.
Interested? Only 12 places left… Find out more about this event! I’m looking forward to this one…
Creative Commons NZ is coming…
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006It looks like a draft port of the Creative Commons licence to the New Zealand legal system is being put together. Hooray! Expect to hear more news about this in the near future…
Questions Day
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006What’s a good web-standards, tableless PHP+MySQL-based CMS that isn’t focused on blogging (IE, not WordPress) ?
What are some strategies for prioritising tasks in day-to-day work?
Running a car is expensive, so why don’t more people use the bus, especially in Wellington, since we (arguably) have the best bus system in the nation… ?
Why is picking up good habits so difficult, but picking up bad habits so easy?
Have you… seen my legs?
Google Maps now higher-res than Zoomin, smaps
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006After a little discussion about Trade Me and their new smaps online map system (which seems to be powered by the same engine ZoomIn is using, but with no satellite imagery), I took another look at Google Maps and their aerial photography of Wellington.
Turns out Google Maps is now higher resolution than smaps or ZoomIn. You can get down to the level where cars are blobs of pixels. Also, Google Maps has more up to date photography — you can see the work on the Inner City Bypass (same location on ZoomIn, smaps).
To be honest, I’m glad that we’ve finally got some decent competition in New Zealand’s online maps — Wises was sucking ass ever since I saw the original ‘ajax map’ maps.search.ch from Switzerland — long before Google Maps was around.