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Two Platefuls: Online Calendar and Event Database

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Brunch
Brunch
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Turnovers, fruit, muffins, eggs. Juice.
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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.

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My Plate Is Full

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flickr foto june-bbq 018available on my flickr It’s already past the time when our building empties out and I’m still pounding the keys here. With the start-up of the fall semester, many programs/projects needing support, a poaching and leak of our office staff, all is leading to things just piling up on the plate. I […]

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Not Hired

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flickr foto New Jobavailable on my flickr I am now delivering packages at campus here! I am disamyed not to have gotten a chance for the courier position at Wintec… a colleague notified me: I’m afraid we have decided to outsource the courier position to another country. Thanks you for your application, we’ll keep it […]

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5 for BlogDay

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Today is Blogday, celebrating an effort to push some folks in the long tail of the blog a little bit up the curve. BlogDay was initiated with the belief that bloggers should have one day which will be dedicated to know other bloggers, from other countries or areas of interests. In that day Bloggers will […]

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Lovely Design Quote

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This morning I was browsing the new Drupal fueled look to evolt, a web developer site I’ve been tapping into for so long I cannot remember, and started reading Isaac Forman’s Usable Forms (for an international audience). It’s a good review of some of the pitfalls in web forms when we are not thinking enough […]

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WordPressed 1.5.2

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After running the minor upgrade for WordPress from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2, I can say their process is rather easy. I still smile when you run the upgrade script at it says “Step 1. It may take a while though, so be patient.”, then it completes and says “There’s actually only one step. So if you […]

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Tablet-ing

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flickr fotoStranger Things Have Happenedavailable on my flickr I am still bleed Apple colors, but I have a new TabletPC for working with some new pen based applications (see what is on the screen. It’s a strange world indeed I’m still trying to get familiar with the TableTC environment with this new HP tc1100… no […]

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More OSX Cat Quirks

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To add to my list of burps in the Panther-Tiger upgrade: I seem unable to print any web page from Firefox… its infinite beach ball spin, and forced quit to escape. I can print fine in other applications. I rarely print web content, but its not too much to ask for. Finder sidebar disappearing icons… […]

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Eating My Own Trackback Crow

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It’s only been… what, a few days?… when I insinuated that Trackback was not such a major problem. I just took a look at one of our MovableType 2.66 sites (that will remain nameless, linkless from here) that I’ve not scanned in a while, and saw a whole raft of Trackback spam sitting in the […]