Draw! The collaborative doodling app in public alpha
I've finally deployed draw! to a semi-publicly accessible location. There are still a lot of kinks to work out (such as the fact that it is completely bonked in Firefox) and a lot of features…
WebSockets and The Ghosts of Clients Past
tl;dr - exposed WebSockets are an API, and changing an API once its event somewhat visible can have unintended consequences. So imagine this - it's about two hours before our scheduled Big Apps final…
ExpressJs: Why my app's root route handler wasn't fireing
The problem As we were gearing up to migrate Culture Island from our development environments to a semi-production environment on Heroku, we needed the ability to render one of two index HTML files, depending on…
Hello world. Took me long enough to get here.
The team that I co-founded for Big Apps NYC 2014, Culture Island, is not only one of the top twenty finalists, but is also the winner of the "VisitGI - Trust for Governor's Island" Big…