Josh Wilson — software engineer writing about distributed systems, big data, and web apps.https://www.jwils.me/https://www.jwils.me/blog/2013/03/14/emailing-google-spreadsheet-grades/https://www.jwils.me/blog/2013/03/14/emailing-google-spreadsheet-grades/I am a teaching assistant for a friend this year, and the hassle of how to send out grades has been a small challenge for me. Last year the class wasThu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.jwils.me/blog/2013/02/03/senior-design/https://www.jwils.me/blog/2013/02/03/senior-design/For our senior thesis, my team is working determining the readability of colored text. My job has been to create the web app that is used to store our images, collect resultsSun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.jwils.me/blog/2013/01/29/error-tolerance/https://www.jwils.me/blog/2013/01/29/error-tolerance/I can't count the number of times that I have had trouble with my computer. Often a friend will say something like "Aren't you a programmer; if you know how computers work,"Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.jwils.me/blog/2013/01/02/displaying-s3-bucket-as-nested-directories-in-rails/https://www.jwils.me/blog/2013/01/02/displaying-s3-bucket-as-nested-directories-in-rails/The component of the app I am currently working on for WCAI, researchers need to be able to download data files. Many of these files are moreWed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.jwils.me/blog/2012/11/02/beginning-the-project/https://www.jwils.me/blog/2012/11/02/beginning-the-project/Many great web frameworks exist; for this project I chose Ruby on Rails. Since the framework is so popular, gems (extensions) exist that will greatly simplify much of theFri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.jwils.me/blog/2012/10/30/storing-analytics-data-on-aws/https://www.jwils.me/blog/2012/10/30/storing-analytics-data-on-aws/Recently The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative began looking into ways to store research projects online. I did some research for them to determine the options for using AWS versus in-houseTue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT