Hi! I am Nick Grossman - urbanist, technologist and neighborhood handyman. I'm interested in the intersection of cities and the Internet. At work, I'm Managing Director of Civic Commons and Open Cities Evangelist at OpenPlans. I live in Boston and have an amazing wife and two great kids. This is my Big Boy Blog. More about me, me, me →

Archive | July, 2009

Help! Can’t drop

When I couldn’t sleep the other night, I started mocking up a zippy drag-n-drop front end for Trac, based on the snappy UI of tools like Things (working title is FasTrac).  Then, bam! Bitten by a weird, seems-like-a-bug w/ jQuery UI drag and drop.  It appears that droppables aren’t discoverable by draggables if the droppable [...]

Welcome Theo

Introducing the newest member of the clan: Theo.  It’s now been nearly two weeks since Theo joined us, and it’s been pretty amazing (and tiring) thus far.  I’ve been intentionally keeping him off of the public intertubes, but figured one cute “hello, world” shot was safe enough.  I am enjoying every minute, while secretly waiting [...]