Institutional Knowledge

Wherein we need to find out where to buy text books.

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Reflecting on Pat’s thoughts with regards to the new portal I can’t help but think back to how I perceived the portal design and content decision making process.

Let me give you a hint: 1) in a vacuum and 2) by committee.

We cannot assume people will want our information, even if we know they need our […]

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Wow. Very cool. I know Scott will love that every object now sports a to_json method.

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So, there is a bit of a meme going around the web development world called Getting Real. Some people think it might be dangerous. This seems like the dangers of success, which I understand quite well. With the exception of a few hiccups here and there, the new portal has been a […]

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If you try and hook up a Rails app to an existing database and it’s acting all funky and you have no idea what the heck is going on, double check to make sure you aren’t using any reserved words in your tables.

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I was poking around in my Google Search History and I noticed that they have various usage/time graphs and I found this one very interesting because it basically shows the hours at which I’m most productive at work, 9-10am and 2-3pm.

Why are the hours when I do the most searching the most productive? I’m […]

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Wherein we flush ghosts from the mysql shell.

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It’s certainly not going to get me back into PHP development, but it should be noted that Yahoo! has opened up a PHP Developers section on their developer network. So, kudos to Yahoo! for that.

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The latest rage in the world of web-dev is “mashing” or in laymens terms, taking data from multiple sources and blending it together to form a new view on an old thing. I’d been kicking around ideas of how to incorporate the coolness that is Google Maps with campus related information.

One of the first […]

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If you haven’t already heard about the release of the Yahoo! Interface Library, you should really take a peek at it. What is even more interesting to me is how they are now starting to detail what was involved with creating such a beast. If you’re interested in beyond large-scale web development, these […]

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