Archive for October, 2008

Old shopping list

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Thanksgiving Shopping List '05 May I not get this crazy this year. (more…)

Investigating Scrum

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Post in progress.  Needed a place to put down thoughts as I go…. I’m setting up ScrumWorks and playing with it to see if it’ll work for our web team. (more…)

Thanks for the thanks!

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Wow, that's a lot of kudos! Screenshot of tweets from our (private) twitter account to share feedback related to web maintenance.

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Message from a friend

Saturday, October 11th, 2008


This is why I go to New Jersey every week. Felt bad about missing his karate class today, but needed a break from travel after the conference.
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Search Flow Chart

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Posted a simple flowchart of how I run our search. When the user clicks “go” on our search the query is run through a simple script (outlined below.) It checks a simple MySQL table (contains only id, keyword, url. ) If there’s a match, the user is redirected to that page. If there’s no match it sends the query to the Google search page on our site at http://www.vassar.edu/search/.

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Working from home this morning

Friday, October 10th, 2008

I'm being watched

I’m being watched

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web conference

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

<head> web conference
October 24-26, 2008 (attendee)

HighEdWeb Conference

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

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HighEdWeb 2008 (attendee)
October 5-8, 2008. Springfield, MO