December 2009
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Database Number Crunching
When I first started out in my career. I spent several years that I like to think of as my apprenticeship in web design. I was a student web worker at the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Being an apprentice meant that I didn’t get many of the glamorous projects but usually I got the ones that were tedious and no one wanted to do them.
One such project was working on a...
The Census for Web Geeks worldwide
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TR Realty and Investments
I’ll start with my latest work.
TR Realty and Investments is a local (Tucson, AZ) realty company. I was approached by them mid-year. They wanted a clean website created to establish their web presence. I was able to put together a simple website build on the wordpress platform to enable social media expandability.
I really enjoyed working on this part of the project as it was my first...
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Evidence that I can create cool stuff
I’ve done a couple of freelance projects over the years but I have yet to organize any of the work in a portfolio that would let others see some of the stuff I’ve worked on.
I also work full time as a web developer in a closed system, so I can’t easily hand off a URL and tell someone to look at it … because they can’t.
So, I hope to be developing a category of posts...
The advent calendar for web geeks
December is upon us again. You know what that means, shopping enthusiasts are having a ball trying to find the best deals on gifts. Cooking buffs are flexing their culinary muscles making tasty meals and treats.
But what about us web geeks? Well hold on to your seats. If you haven’t heard of 24 ways yet, it is the advent calendar for web geeks. Every day from December 1st until the 24th a...
November 2009
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September 2009
6 posts
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A little more about this site
Over the years, this site has undergone many changes. I’ve designed, redesigned, cleared the blog posts and even recently moved the posts over to tumblr, and the constant changes are likely to end.
Why do I do this?
Because I am passionate about refining my craft, that is web design and development. I love to read up on the newest trends in this field. I bought this web space to serve as...
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Playing video games actually made me a better...
The following is a post I wrote back on another blog.
I am totally serious when I say that. It’s been just over two years since I first picked up a golf club. When I first started out, I knew absolutely zero about golf. When I swung the club I made contact with the ball about half of the time and rarely was it good contact as my ball would hook or slice to their respective sides. It was...
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The next new thing?
I’ve been writing content for the web off and on for a couple of years now. The main reason I say off and on is that many times over the years I’ve simply shut down due to either a busy schedule or just lack of ideas (blogger’s block).
Enter Plinky. I created an account a while back, played around with it for a while and sort of put it on the shelf. A little explanation first,...
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The obligatory music category
A long time ago I put out a blog post about the Pandora music service. Years later, it is still here and I still use it just about every day.
I figured I’d kick off the music portion of this blog by first saying that I have a few bands that I like and a bunch that I can recognize a song that I like. Enter Pandora, I like it because I can simply enter the stuff I like and set up a Quick Mix...
August 2009
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New books for a new house
I recently moved to a new house and decided that with a new place I needed some new reading material. Also, I realized that there is a used bookstore down the street called Bookman’s. So I loaded up a couple of extra copies of books that I’ve been holding on to and made a visit.
My first stop was the Star Wars section. It’s been years since I’ve read anything from the Star...
April 2009
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Second Attempt
I used to have a tumblr account, then decided that I wanted to focus on blogging on my actual site about web design topics. Months later, I have a couple of posts, but nothing spectacular. I really miss just putting up random thoughts that come to my head.
So, here is my second attempt… enjoy!