Retro Portfolio: MSU College of Arts & Letters

MSU’s College of Arts & Letters was the first college-level site I worked on as a staff member at University Relations. My work on the site itself was limited to helping troubleshoot the HTML and CSS that was developed by my supervisor. Additionally, I installed the Calendarix calendar software on the site. I was also […]

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Retro Portfolio: DetroitHockey.Net Redesign

The August 2003 redesign of DetroitHockey.Net was mostly unnecessary but I did it anyway. I had never really liked the “edgier” design I tried to do in the November 2002 redesign and wanted to go back to a more traditional style for the site. As well, I thought that too many images were used in […]

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Retro Portfolio: ClarkRasmussen.com

By August 2003 I had already gotten tired of the original design for ClarkRasmussen.com that was developed in May of that year. I had never really liked the first design but I had yet to come up with a better one, so I worked out this design. There were two drastic changes. The first saw […]

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Retro Portfolio: MSU.edu Redesign Support

I was working as a student at Michigan State University’s Division of University Relations when the campus-wide project to rebuild MSU’s website occurred. Because University Relations was involved in the redesign, I had the opportunity to work with the designers that built the new site. I did not design the site, nor did I build […]

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Retro Portfolio: DetroitHockey.Net Redesign

In September 2002, drwcentral.net became DetroitHockey.Net. DetroitHockey.Net continued to use the same page layout as drwcentral.net. By November of that year, I had decided that DetroitHockey.Net needed a fresh start and its own page design. I used one of my favorite past drwcentral.net designs as a starting point and created a new look for the […]

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Retro Portfolio: drwcentral.net Redesign

After drwcentral.net was converted from a static site to a database-driven format, I decided to commemorate the changes with a site-wide redesign. Looking back, I believe this was a horrible idea as the design I was using at the time was one of the better ones I’ve ever put together. I went with a darker […]

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Retro Portfolio: drwcentral.net Redesign

The May 2001 redesign of drwcentral.net was intended to brighten the site and decrease the load time for each page. Before this redesign, drwcentral.net used a layout with much darker colors and many more graphics. Load times were too high in relation to the content that was being provided. I developed a layout that used […]

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Trello API and dateLastActivity

Trello API and dateLastActivity

I came across something interesting today, working on a project that is supposed to automatically archive all cards on a Trello board that are in the “Completed” column and are more than two weeks old. This should have been really easy.  Use the /1/lists/<list_id>/cards GET request to get all of the cards on the list then […]

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Stupid Lessons Learned: jQuery Click Trigger

Back in March I wrote a little bit about an issue I was having where, at several points along my path to solving it, I should have realized I was doing things wrong.  I had another one of those come up and thought it was good to share for a few reasons.  A little background… On […]

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Guzzle Bug 568 and Shared Hosting

I ran across an interesting little problem this weekend and figured I’d share out what I discovered.  In hindsight, I think it’s something I should have figured out pretty quickly but I didn’t see anything about it in my searches so maybe this will help someone. I use AWSSDKforPHP2 installed as a PEAR extension on […]

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