#green code

[where-is-zedaph]

he is in the matrix

Hes hacking into the mainframe!!

[moviehousenow]

The iconic green code in The Matrix was made out of Japanese sushi recipes!

[kramlabs]

Got your “green code”?...

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[brandondonnelly]

The Buffalo Green Code

At the end of last year, Buffalo, New York approved the first major overhaul to its zoning code in 63 years old. 

It is officially called the Buffalo Green Code Unified Development Ordinance, but, not surprisingly, most people seem to be just calling it the Buffalo Green Code. Its name should give you clues as to what it is trying to accomplish.

Here’s a snippet from a City Journal article by Aaron M. Renn:

The Green Code is a so-called “form-based code,” encouraging mixed uses. Buffalo will be only the third major city in the U.S. to adopt a citywide form-based code. The goal is to encourage development of buildings in a more traditional, Main Street style.

As an older city, Buffalo is already built like this in many areas. But past zoning choices have had lingering negative consequences. “Sixty years ago planners sought to replace the city with a suburban auto-dominated (dominated, not oriented) model,” says Brendan Mehaffey, Buffalo’s executive director of strategic planning. “Most of the city as built was non-conforming with the existing development. Through urban renewal and other programs, planners sought to replace the city’s built environment block-by-block.”

Perhaps one of the most noteworthy changes being ushered in with the Green Code is the complete elimination of parking minimums. This change makes Buffalo the first city in the United States to remove this requirement on a citywide basis.

The Green Code also dramatically simplifies the current code, taking it down from 1,802 pages to 338 pages.

I haven’t yet gone through the Green Code in detail (you can do that here if you’d like). But already other cities are starting to look to Buffalo as a model for how to rewrite their own zoning codes.

[useful-backup-tips-sqz]

The Green Code for Buildings

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[rookiequarterbackcoder-blog]

Practicing Agile workflow with 16 front-end engineers....

So... building a functioning web application is very hard... let me just start with that.  I have built a few in my limited experience and been for the most part successful...  This past week my cohort and I here at The Iron Yard were tasked with building a quiz application.  Doesn't sound too overwhelming right?  Now lets have 16 different people build this thing that must work and must look good...  The technical piece, getting everything to work and appear as expected, is a challenge but even more so is coordinating this process with many different people who all think differently and perhaps have  different definitions of a successful app/component.  

Day one I was extremely frustrated and disappointed in myself.  I was assigned a fairly challenging piece of the application and for about the first day I vaguely understood what the requirements were of this piece and what I needed to do to go about constructing it.  In order to properly test whether or not my component was actually working I needed to have some data to feed into, of which there was none, I also needed to receive some type of input from the user, of which I was not sure where in the process the user would input that information.  So needless to say, by the end of day one I felt totally useless and like a complete failure.

However, after our ‘scrum meeting’ on day 2 I had a much clearer picture of what needed to happen and I was able to work through some very difficult technical challenges that afternoon.  I am so glad that my instructor challenged me to take on a tough problem and didn’t let me off the hook, because I learned quite a lot during the process of solving the problems that needed to be solved.

In retrospect the day one disaster was partially a fault of poor organization on our groups part, but more than any the ‘git blame’ lay on me.  I did not ask the right questions to make sure I understood the requirements of my component and I did not plan more before jumping into fruitless coding.  Laying the ground work for the project on day one would have made my life a whole lot easier and ultimately that all boiled done to better communication with my team.

I am very thankful to have the learning opportunity of working in a large group, because there will be many times in my professional life (probably most of the time) where I will not be working in a vacuum and will have to be able to communicate, and ask the right questions.

[rookiequarterbackcoder-blog]

Surviving my first Hackathon :-0

I just spent the past 4 days doing nothing but coding... which by itself is crazy!  Javascript is really hard!  However, I wasn’t just in a room by myself focused on a project I was working in a team committing to a single repository(scariest words you will ever see on your screen: merge conflict), implementing a new technology I barely understood for the first time and connecting my front end of the web stack to the backend of the stack, which was created by a team mate (something I had also never done before).  This was one of the toughest weekends I have ever had.  Spending 12+ hours a day for four days coding, taking a short break to see my family and eat.  It did not mater that I was tired or frustrated... stuff had to get done so I had to suck it up and push through... Not just for myself but for my team mates as well.  I am tired to say the least, oh yeah, and we still had lecture and assignments the following Monday!  While this was one of the hardest 4 days of my life I still had fun.  I was lucky to be paired with a great team of smart people who were eager to work as hard as I was.  We battled in the trenches until we had a product we could be proud of!  (The last thing I wanted to do was stand up on Monday to demo what we had worked so hard on and not be able to be proud of what we were showing people)  I think the best way to describe a hackathon is trial by fire.... you are going to run into very difficult problems that you may not know how to solve but the true test, at least in my mind, is what you did with the challenge.  I could have given up or blamed others for things not working or even cried.... or push through until a solution is met and use the experience to grow.  I am thankful that I am mature enough now and motivated enough to do the latter (I can’t say that this was always the case).  While I am not eager to do another one of these anytime soon I am so glad for the experience!  It was absolutely worth it! So whats next?  Oh yeah, drop the tech we just worked so hard to learn and pick up React!