Sunday, May 11th
After a week or so of planning and three weeks of development, a group of students and
I have created Business Proposal Management System, a PHP application to enable a venture
capital fund to collect business proposals and have its managers delegate reviews of them
to analysts. This was my first project for a customer and taught me a great deal about
working closely in a team with other developers, medium-scale application development in
PHP, and project management. I'm very proud of the final result of our work, but am now
considering re-implementing the design in Django. Venture capital funds ...
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Saturday, March 29th
The fine folks at a.viary.com have provided an
extremely cool and innovative toolset, currently in Beta, for artists. Contact me for an invite. 
That's a little something I threw together in a couple of minutes using
Phoenix, Aviary's photo editing tool.
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Sunday, March 16th
I've been planning my summer and I have a few different options available to me right
now. Besides working full time, I'm also entertaining the idea of taking a food service
job at nights and spending the days working on one of a couple of different projects.
First, there's the Clubs project. I'm in talks with some student leaders who are
interested in putting their support behind Clubs, which would mean that development can
start this summer or soon thereafter. Working on Clubs alone sounds like a daunting task,
while working on it with my partner would require telecommuting and ...
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Monday, March 10th
If you're one of the three people that has ever taken a look at vcBlog, you probably
realize that there's about six posts missing. Like I alluded to in the first 0.2 post,
they went missing in the course of MySQL surgery necessary as a result of adding another
model to my application--specifically, one with a many-to-many field. An entry has
multiple tags, a tag can be applied to multiple entries, so... Anyway, those entries that
have gone missing could all have been sitting in a pretty JSON file, had I used
manage.py's dumpdata
function. In fact they ...
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Monday, March 10th
After my eight months as an IT support tech, I can't help but share a little Firefox
knowledge with the world. Firefox slows way down when downloading files? The "Downloads"
window takes forever to open? Try pressing that Clean Up button in the bottom right. It
won't delete your files but it will speed browsing up, big time. Just a tip. As spring
break is coming up, I may have some time for dev coming up on vcBlog. Some possible
features for 0.3:
- Context-sensitive admin options on public blog
- AJAX
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