After integrating with Twilio for FixMyCityDC, I was looking for another opportunity to use their great API.
So, combined with data from NPR’s Station Finder API, and loading it on Google App Engine, I was able to create a phone number to allow people to call from wherever they may be at the time, type in [...]
Category Archives: DC
Making Magic with NPR API + Twilio + Google App Engine
September 30, 2009 – 1:48 pm
skeevisArts Awarded Honorable Mention in Apps For Democracy 2
September 4, 2009 – 7:53 am
I’m happy to announce this morning that skeevisArts was given an Honorable Mention in the Apps for Democracy 2 competition.
The goal of the competition was to build applications that would tie into DC’s 311 API, which allows residents to submit work requests to the municipal government.
The winning team focused on building tools for iPhone and [...]
FixMyCityDC, and Our Approach
July 1, 2009 – 1:43 pm
For the past two months, I participated in Apps for Democracy, a development competition for the Washington, DC government. I watched from the sidelines last year as developers built out amazing applications utilizing DCs data catalog, presenting boring data in useful ways. I was even more excited to learn that this years competition was to [...]