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mindgraffiti - noun; musings on creative work, publicly posted.

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I am a web developer for the API Web Services dept., where I learn a little more about cows and PHP every day.

Archive for May, 2007

Kaizen and the Web Department

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

“When you step into a turnaround situation, you can safely assume four things: morale is low, fear is high, the good people are halfway out the door, and the slackers are hiding.”
-Nina Disesa, as chairwoman of McCann-Erickson Worldwide
Kaizen - Making small improvements every day in order to see big changes down the road.
Growth and change [...]

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Growing Pains

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Shhh…the Angus Journal offices are getting remodeled this week, which means I will not be in. No posts next week, so take some time and unplug.
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‘Why can’t tech people just say what they mean?!’ I often heard this from relatives while fixing their computers. I never commented about it because I always thought to myself, ‘well I understood what they said perfectly.’ This was before I realized I was a tech junkie. My TV was permanently set on TechTV and [...]

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Manipulating Data for Static Sites

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

In the previous post I explained the limitations of the project: Client with a spreadsheet full of data, wanted to keep the data available for manipulation, but also wanted it posted to their website with a link to each item’s detailed information page. No dynamic content, unfortunately: no access to a database and server-side scripts, [...]

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Advanced Forms of Data Manipulation

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

How To Handle Repetitive Tasks for Static Sites
The Scenario
Let’s say the customer has a spreadsheet with over 200 items (like 200 bulls) and 20 different detailed entries (say, for example, their stats) filled in for each one. While it’s great that the customer wants to offer this information in a print-friendly and easy to use [...]

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