mindgraffiti

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

About

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

Microformats and Mashables?

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

The choices of web technologies to learn next are overwhelming: should I delve deeper into PHP and mySQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, Flex or ActionScript 3? I continue to learn better CSS techniques and understand XHTML, but where to go from here? Baby steps means learning how to program JavaScript. I can already implement JavaScript [...]

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A Puzzle, A Lesson

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

If I can solve the fish problem, why can’t I seem to find a proper solution to this one?
The Photo Department
The Photo department has reached critical mass. After 10 years and 12 TB (yes, I do mean 12 terabytes) of photos, their Mac G5 finder windows will no longer search for photos with ease. Complaints [...]

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Fun Projects

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

I’m so excited- our first site using Drupal is ready to be reviewed. We don’t have the domain name yet, which is why it lives under a different one.
Take a sneak peek and compare the old site and the new site side by side, while the test link is still alive.
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Tags: Projects

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Drupal Testing

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I’m working with Drupal right now. I am taking Drupal 6.1 out for a test drive. So far it looks pretty good. Skinning 6.1 looks like it will be easier than 5.5.
Since Monday, I have had a crash course in:

PHP5 and why it’s better than PHP4;

Reading PHP and knowing what the functions do

mySQL5 and [...]

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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 [...]

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