flickr foto

the sandwich
available on dotpolka’s flickr

another fine photo from the flickr creative commons collection

The 3rd installment of What’s on my plate is a double decker thick sandwich, two major events happening Friday, at two different locations.

Like an overeater, I am swearing it was unavoidable, I just had to take on both sides of the sandwich… and one of those halves contains a home grown pickel that tastes like flickr!

A few months ago what is happening this Friday seemed reasonable… time will tell soon. We are holding two very different, large events for the Maricopa system, both billed as “options” for the kickoff for Ocotillo activities this year (Ocotillo is our instructional technology initiatives).

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Brunch
available on adrian’s flickr

Turnovers, fruit, muffins, eggs. Juice.
(Another fine free image from the flickr Creative Commons By Attribution collection.

So for the first installment here on what’s been on my plate project-wise, we are grabbing a couple of related items that support dynamic calendar information for our site and registration for events. The whole point was to make it so we were not manually editing date-specific content on our project web pages, so as events passed, they would roll off the “upcoming” items list.

We’ve had a mySQL powered event calendar running for our MCLI web sites since before 2000. The basic premise is a structure that provides the descriptive info (title, dates, times, locations, contact names, URLs) and a way so each calendar item is “tagged” or associated with a different project area, and as well provide a way of looking at all events.