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31
Mar
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29
Mar
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29
Mar
Web Discussion and Work.  |  1 

I had to write these for a six-month review at work, but figured I might as well put’em out there so I’ll feel guiltier when I don’t achieve have something to aspire to.

(Note: The use of the strike tag is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.)

  • Begin projects as soon as I get them, which gives me more time to improve and consider my decisions.
  • Creating personal process templates that include questions to ask clients, high-level factors to consider, and simple things like final double-checks of buildout in all browsers. I’m not sure how helpful this would be to team members, but I hope some of them (maybe a guide for logo process) could be some help.
  • Go to at least two social design/web events, act like a normal person.
  • Blog more, and engage in longer discussions on other blogs.
  • Become more proficient in jQuery, and break through the point that gives me larger access to programming in general.
  • More blogging, and working with the design team to come up with more inspiring or professional development activities.

Outside of work, I suppose I’ve added these (public) ones to the list:

  • Relearn Katakana at some point
  • Be better husband
  • Stop accepting freelance work
  • Stop feeling responsible for other peoples’ problems (ie: “I really need this site done and my designer bailed on me, Doug”)
  • Maybe take photographs again, since I haven’t touched my camera since October
  • Find some kind of group of people outside of work that I can use to get free stuff talk to on a regular basis
  • Blog more “professionally.” Use titles like “The Wet Floor Effect: Still Awesome?” instead of “Things I Have Found Under My Couch.”
  • Don’t swear on Twitter
23
Mar
Learned and Web Discussion.  |  0 

One of the big complaints I had about EE out of the box was that comments and trackbacks only appear on the www.blog.com/comments/(blog entry) page, but not www.blog.com/(blog entry). For a bit, I’d set up the non-comments page to display a link to the full comments page, but this was a clumsy solution to a larger problem.

THEN: I figured out that I could just test against segment_1 at the bottom of each post. So: If the first URL segment equals the title of the blog entry (meaning www.blog.com/(title)), the comments and trackbacks appear.

Voila.

(PS: Learned Today is temporarily discontinued until I get some free time/learn some things)

23
Mar
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