Published on October 30, 2007
in Home.
Liza and I built a photo wall on Sunday night and it was a great time! I got the idea from this website and I wasn’t really sure how it would turn out. All in all i think its pretty cool. The only downside I can foresee right now is that it might be a pain to add/rearrange photos from time to time, but hopefully its not too bad.
I also signed up for a SmugMug account in hopes that it would make posting photos to the blog easier. We’ll see if thats the case in the future, but to begin with here are some photos from Liza and I last night building the super-duper photo wall.
More photos if you click through…
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I have a coworker who is obsessed with Ron Paul. He insists on sending out multiple emails per week about him and trying to get the word out about his favorite candidate. I have no problem with him being active and trying to get new people interested in Ron Paul, in fact I find some of the information he sends out quite informative and I think Ron Paul has some progressive and fresh viewpoints compared to all of the other GOP candidates. Some people that I work with don’t appreciate his consistent urging, but its no bother to me.
I was browsing an article today on Lifehacker touting the coolness of some of the lesser known Google web applications. One of them is Google Trends, which will give you a nice little graphic comparing the search volume and news references of a website over time. It attempts to give you what I would call a “Web Popularity” ranking I guess. Not really sure how accurate it is, or what it really means, but the results were exactly in line with what my coworker has been preaching: Ron Paul is popular, especially online, yet he isn’t getting any media coverage.
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Published on October 19, 2007
in Work.
We’ve officially launched the 1.0 release of a piece of software at work that I’ve been personally working on for about a year and a half. I wish I could go into detail about what the software does, but I’m not up to speed on what I am and am not allowed to say about it since it’s an internal piece of software for the company right now. Sorry about the vagueness, but hopefully it doesn’t detract from the point.
Anyway, I’ve been spending the last couple days training new technicians and engineers and things have been going really well. It’s so satisfying to see new people use the software you write and to see how they interact with it, what parts of it confuse them as well as what things just work perfectly. In a way these past couple days have been the first metric our small, 3 person, software development team has had to judge the success of our work. You become so enveloped in a project when you work on it for a long period of time that everything about it makes sense to you, the way the software is working is a small slice of how your head works and thinks. Because of that, you lose sight of what challenges many users will be facing when using the software. I think this is one of the greatest challenges our team faced throughout the development of our project.
Today I’ve confirmed that, for the most part, we were successful. We conducted two training sessions today. The first one went along smoothly, people asked questions, were impressed by our ideas and the execution of them in the software. Overall they seemed to be surprised by the quality of our work. That was pretty satisfying, but what really made my day was a comment that someone made in our second, post lunch hour, training session.
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