Kareem Francis

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 that I want to add (like chat support...and

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 pitch in front a panel of star judges, including

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 server side configuration. The first, index.html, would use

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 Idea challenge, meaning it will be adopted