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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Awhile ago I wrote about how I’d gotten addicted to the Cookie Clicker game to the point that I made a userscript that would display a countdown showing how long it would take for me to get to a certain amount of cookies. The same people that pullled me into that game tried to get […]
Every year my in-laws do the whole “drawing names” thing at Christmas, where each person draws one other person and buys a gift for them. Nearly as often, there’s drama about it. Someone complains about “always” getting someone else. Someone gets themself (that was me this year). I decided to remove the human element from […]
Back in July I wrote a bit about my implementation of AWS ElasticTranscoder within DetroitHockey.Net’s multimedia archives. I knew as I was writing it that I wanted to take it a step further and I got the chance to do that last week, presenting an expanded version of my post as a lecture at TechSmith’s […]