One of the things my team at work always seems to have a problem with is tracking our tasks and how they fit into the bigger picture of our team’s goals. We had these problems when we were using a bulletin board, we have these problems now that we’re using a single Trello board. We […]
One of the things that being a parent has taught me is that children’s bedtime stories have some weird stuff in them. Take Margaret Wise Brown’s classic, Goodnight Moon. The first half or so of the story is spent detailing the items that live in “the great green room” where a rabbit child is going […]
One of the things I love about my job – probably the thing I love most about it – is that it provides me interesting problems to solve. Yes, I like writing code, and writing clean code probably prevents having to solve problems in the future, but the code itself is just a tool to […]
I redesigned the header of this site earlier this week entirely because I was bored. I couldn’t focus on what I should have been writing and I decided a design project would help. What I came up with worked, though, so I went with it. The gradients in my previous header were dated when I […]
A couple weeks ago I briefly mentioned that it seemed like it made more sense to post about newly-completed projects to this blog rather than have a separate “Portfolio” section of the site. The idea is much the same as my thinking on code samples; it should be less about the outcome and more about the […]
Six years after I doodled a 10th season logo for HockeyBird.com, I was contacted about doing another logo for the site. HockeyBird.com had undergone many changes in the six years since I last did a logo for them and were looking for “a still here after all these years kinda thing.” We had missed the […]
After completing my Spring 2013 redevelopment of ClarkAndCathy.net (which included a code-consolidation effort that touched on ClarkRasmussen.com), I was able to move on to a redesign of my personal site. I realized it had been five years since the last time I had done the design on ClarkRasmussen.com so I wanted to take the time […]
The Spring 2013 redevelopment of ClarkAndCathy.net wasn’t supposed to happen. The site was a placeholder. We didn’t use it for anything except for a couple tools that were built into a password-protected administration system. We had a WordPress blog that was shared only to family members (security through obscurity, true, but really we were just […]
The DRWTrivia Stat Tracker was a project I put together to give myself a chance to play with the Twitter API a little bit. Every week, the official Twitter account of the Detroit Red Wings would run a trivia contest using the #DRWTrivia hashtag. Their system was to tweet a question, then a few miutes […]
The Games That Weren’t is a project I developed for the 2012 NHL lockout, partially as a joke. As the league began to cancel games, several of the Detroit Red Wings fan bloggers were discussing what they would write about with no hockey. The idea of writing about fake games came up, at which point […]