March 21st, 2005 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, IRE
At last week’s NICAR conference I showed off Instiki at a demo session, and there was a request for a handout of instructions on how to get it up and running under Windows. To install Instiki on Windows, you’ll need three things. In order, they are:
* the Ruby language
* the Instiki program (zip file)
* access [...]
March 19th, 2005 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, IRE
Here’s the handout for my UltraEdit text editing class from Saturday afternoon at the NICAR conference. There’s also an HTML version.
March 17th, 2005 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, IRE, Python
Some references from the Advanced day of the NICAR conference: my list of open-source applications and my Python script for grabbing a list of FEC electronic filings (shown by Ron Nixon).
November 6th, 2004 | by Derek | published in IRE
IRE asked for suggestions for next year’s NICAR and IRE annual conferences, so here’s mine:
I wanted to see what people thought of having some panels organized around practical rather than thematic topics. For example, having a SQL Server Best Practices panel with 1-2 people who have come up with administrative or task-specific tips and suggestions. [...]
March 13th, 2003 | by Derek | published in IRE
Originally this year’s NICAR conference in Charlotte was to be held at one hotel but was moved to the Charlotte Hilton & Towers. Am I ever glad it was: upon arrival, we went to the hotel bar and were given free ethernet cables (of course we had our laptops with us) and then the hotel [...]