Andy Budd wrote a great post on Web Design Disciplines Explained Through the Medium of Dungeons & Dragons. Go read the article: I’ll wait.

If you have never played an RPG, his post or mine are probably not for you. If, however, you fondly remember days of tabletop gaming, read on, as I have a few more thoughts on this great analogy.

Updated: Long live natural responsive web design breakpoints

Stephanie Rieger, in her posts, “The ‘trouble’ with Ice Cream Sandwich” and “The ‘trouble’ with Android”, points out the myriad little ways that the pixel width of the browser can differ from the default pixel width of the device, from zoom levels to text scaling to browser views embedded within apps that have chrome on the sides of the browser.

Otto Doll, CIO of Minneapolis, led a great discussion on open data. Here are my notes on that discussion.

The city of Minneapolis has a lot of data. That gets put together in information presented to the community by the city. However, what raw data should be shared publicly? (Not all data can or should be shared.) How is that data shared? If we put this data out there, do we put it out there forever? Do we keep publishing it forever? Archiving it forever?

Today, I am attending City Camp MN, an unconference that brings together people working for local government, elected officials, non-profits, neighborhood groups, private-sector developers, journalists…basically anyone interested in making our communities better through technology. The idea is that we can collaborate and by doing so, we can come up with solutions better than if we were to all just work on our own. This is of course the basic theory that underpins the idea of government itself, but it is more than that, too.

As you probably heard, Gowalla recently revamped their service.

In doing so, I found myself no longer able to view my activity history on their website.

However, I found a way to retrieve my activity history using their API and PHP. So I thought I would share that method with others.