Mike Pinkowish

Skier, College Student, Web Developer, And Much More

Ruby and Sledder

January 20, 2009

It’s my second week of classes and things are looking good. I still like my classes and the Ski & Snowboard Club is doing great (we had two trips this past weekend). BaseLodge has done amazing things for the club, too.
I dove into Ruby yesterday. It feels like a weird hybrid of Python and Perl. All and all, I like it, and I think it’ll grow [...]

First Impression of Classes

January 14, 2009

My spring semester at Rensselaer began on Monday, and I think it’s off to a great start. My Economic Analysis of Technical Change class looks really promising. My professor described it as the ‘economics of knowledge’ and said it was his favorite course to teach.
My other classes look good, too. Cost-Benefit Analysis seems like an extension of [...]

BaseLodge Live Demo

January 8, 2009

The BaseLodge Live Demo is finally here! BaseLodge is a management system for ski clubs and shops which I’ve been working on intermittently during winter break. Next week, it’ll have it’s first deployment, being used by the RPI Ski & Snowboard Club. I’m really excited about BaseLodge, and I think it’ll help out the RPI Ski Club, and [...]

Redesign Complete!

January 1, 2009

The new year’s here, and so is the new design for MikePinkowish.com. It’s taken a bunch of alot of work to make something that I’m happy with. The only thing left to do at this point, is to add in some CSS styles for Internet Explorer 7 and 8. The site supports Internet [...]