Archive for February, 2008

Thursday notice

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

The usual Thursday posts may end up postponed for the month of March. Between work, my personal life, and outside projects, time is scarce. [I'd rather be silent than offer up useless drivel.]
Next Thursday is going to be exciting- some of the NWMSU IDM majors are taking the Off Broadway Tour and I’ve been invited [...]

Being the industry leader

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Outside In
From the perspective of an outsider looking in, as a web developer I can see how woefully behind the times our company’s web site is: it’s disgustingly out of date in design, doesn’t validate, uses archaic technology (Coldfusion 4.5, anyone?), loads slowly, and is a general disservice to anyone trying to use it.
How great [...]

On Doing What You Love

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Steve Olson finds the best reading on the web. I followed a link in one of his posts today about responsibility, where he asks “Do you need to take responsibility to do the things you love?”
A frank and succinct observation on the journey to discovering what you love doing, Paul Graham explores where our attitudes [...]

A Visual Tour of Kaizen

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

A visual tour through the work I’ve been doing during this Sale season. Larger images are linked to the thumbnails if you’d like to see details. Enjoy!

Kaizen: Gardiner Angus Ranch

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

The recent update to Gardiner’s web site was mostly pain-free. Along with the update I attempted to use the IE conditional comments I’ve observed so many other sites use. Inside it contains a IE6 style sheet, which switches out the use of .png files for .gifs and takes out the negative margins on the top [...]