Last year, I moved our small programming department from using JDeveloper and editing shared files directly on a network drive to using Netbeans 6.x and a proper version control system (Subversion). After the initial learning curve, this has all been going swimmingly. I merged my first development branch into the trunk yesterday, and this branch [...]
This entry pertains to work done in the context of my employment. Please remember, however, that any opinions expressed on this blog do not necessarily reflect those of my employer or co-workers. The Problem Admissions needed help. They had been moved from their former product, Exeter, to Banner’s native admissions module. But Banner’s interface stinks, [...]
A month late, sure, but better late than never… Some of you remember that I joined the 9Rules network a while ago. At the beginning of October, 9Rules members got an e-mail advertising a new membership agreement. After talking it out in Clubhouse, we made participating either in the private member area or my.9rules a [...]
Last week, I finally went live with a new design that I’ve been toying with for this blog. It sort of grew organically out of a few failures that I’d played with on and off for the last few months. After looking at a lot of available themes, I decided to more or less write [...]
5 Nov. 2007 • I’ve formatted this code as a plugin, too. Go to the project page. Blockquotes, by definition, can and should in most cases have a title attribute and, if possible, a cite attribute. The former is the actually name of the quote’s source. The latter is the URI to the quotes location, [...]
Dictionary.com has given itself an upgrade after many long years of suffering from a layout that looked like it was designed by somebody’s retarded child. Of course, I still prefer TheFreeDictionary, which is slightly less semantic but filled with Javascript goodness. Still, credit goes to Dictionary.com for finally “getting it” about web standards. Mmmmm, eye [...]