Nathan Zorn // Surfer and software developer currently working at http://collecta.com
Earl generated some nice waves for SC yesterday!
Best pics found so far. http://follysurf.blogspot.com/2010/09/back-to-reality-but-fiona-could-deliver...
Put in a full days worth of surfing. 6:30am to 3pm (small break in between)
This HOWTO describes the steps to setup a simple web server/proxy, and to use the Collecta XMPP API to display images from a Collecta search. From these steps it should be clear what components are needed to start writing your own web based XMPP/Collecta application. You will need to know some basics about web development and how to use git to download code. See http://metajack.im for more information about Strophe and Tape.
First you will need a simple http server and proxy. Tape, http://github.com/metajack/tape, was written just for this purpose. Download tape from the git repository, git clone http://github.com/metajack/tape.git, and copy the script to a directory in your path. Mine is located at /usr/local/bin/tape.
Second you will need The Compound Eye and all of its requirements. Download the compound eye, git clone http://github.com/collecta/compoundeye.git. This will create a directory called compoundeye. Next you will need Strophejs and the Collecta XMPP API plug-in for Strophe. Retrieve these libraries with git clone http://github.com/metajack/strophejs.git and git clone http://github.com/collecta/strophejscollecta.git. After retrieving strophe and the plug-in, build strophe by changing to the strophejs directory and running the make command. You will need the YUI compressor for this step, http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/. Finally you will changed to the compoundeye directory and copy in the dependencies. Copy strophe.min.js from strophejs and strophe.collecta.js from the plug-in project.
Now you should be ready to run the demo. Change to the compoundeye directory and run tape. tape -P /xmpp-httpbind=http://collecta.com/xmpp-httpbind -P/http-pre-bind=http://collecta.com/http-pre-bind
This will start up tape and proxy to collecta.com for the needed BOSH urls. Now browse to your demo at http://localhost:8273/.
Note that this uses a demo API key. To increase your number of results you can request a key at api@collecta.com
This demo was used in the Charleston Pecha Kucha presentations.
Kally took these pictures while on our El Salvador trip.
After Collecta's last round of funding it was decided to locate the company to Santa Monica. The beginning of this month our team started the move out. We also held one of our quarterly meetings and had some fun in the new city. Collecta's temporary office location is at the Coloft, http://coloft.com. They have an awesome space and the environment can't be beat. I lived in Santa Monica for four years and having all the Collecta team out there was nice. Plenty of good food and drink was had. I'll be staying in Charleston for a while, but anxious to move back to California. The first week of August had some nice waves so I got to surf a bit.
After a long trip to Los Angeles and El Salvador I am finally back. This morning when I went outside I found a grasshopper on my screen porch. It was as big as my hand.
When I get some time to go through the photos, I'll post about the LA and El Salvador trip.
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It is a sad state when you have fun surfing waist high wind chop. However, I found a spot on my usual beach that gets fun when the tide is rising and two hours from high tide. It breaks right on the sand bar and is quick. A welcome relief from the usual mushy wind chop.
A few weeks I'll be in CA, then El Salvador. This means when I return, I'll be spoiled and probably won't go out in these conditions or think they are fun.
I found a bottle of this limited beer at the Charleston Beer Exchange, http://www.charlestonbeerexchange.com/. The name of it is Beer Geek Brunch Weasel and its brewed by the Mikkeller Brewery. It is made with Vietnamese ca phe chon coffee and is a very good imperial stout. I am not sure about the coffee taste. More info. http://www.mikkeller.dk/index.php?beer_id=78&id=61&land=1
Kally and I spent the weekend hiking in Bonas Defeat Gorge, NC with a few of the Low Country Highrollers. Lots of fun! The hike was very challenging and based on photos of it online, it might have been more challenging due to the higher water level.
Kally posted a few photos to flickr.
