Normally I don’t re-post anything off of the LiftPort blog – figuring that if someone is interested in it, they can just subscribe to it directly.\u00a0 However, Tom Nugent has posted a request for help in a web-based database application that perhaps some of my readers might be interested in contributing to.\u00a0 Following is his complete post;<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m working on setting up a database-backed web application for outlining space elevator research questions, as part of the work we\u2019re doing this summer with our interns. (I hope to talk about the project in more detail in a future blog post.) I\u2019m not a web programmer by training; I\u2019ve done bits of PHP and database design here and there, but not enough to be an expert. I\u2019m using Ruby on Rails<\/a> for this task, which has certainly boosted my productivity relative to using PHP. But I need to get a lot<\/strong> more done in a very short time (think: within a week), hence I\u2019m sending out a plea to our community at large.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re a programmer who has strong experience with Ruby on Rails and are willing to offer suggestions, feedback, discussion, and\/or improvement of code related to furthering the space elevator project, please get in touch with me. My email address is \u2018tom DOT nugent AT liftport DOT com\u2019 (is it hopeless to think that this kind of mis-writing of an email address will fool spam address-harvesting bots?). Thanks!”<\/p>\n So, if anyone can help him out, please send him an email…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Normally I don’t re-post anything off of the LiftPort blog – figuring that if someone is interested in it, they can just subscribe to it directly.\u00a0 However, Tom Nugent has posted a request for help in a web-based database application that perhaps some of my readers might be interested in contributing to.\u00a0 Following is his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}