Well… after several months of not being able to blog due to random Typo errors, I’ve finally made a transition to Mephisto CMS. It was a surprisingly smooth conversion once I found the proper combination of script hacks. There are still a few problems though, unfortunately. Mainly, that pagination seems to have “disappearred” with...
About a month ago I conducted a couple informational interviews for my Job Search Strategies class. The first interview was with Robert Dempsey, Project Director of Atlantic Dominion Solutions a Ruby on Rails website and application development firm, and Founder and Director of Rails For All a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of...
Well, I’m really not sure why I didn’t do this a month ago, or why it took me this long to think of it, but my new portfolio site is up at JulieMarie.net. I built the site with Radiant, a simple, Ruby on Rails based content management system and designed the layout myself. Check...
Post-graduate plans are something that I’ve been thinking about rather frequently since the beginning of the new year. To really see where I’m coming from, I guess I should tell you how I got to where I am now…
Check it out, kids: ExpressiveConnections.com has finally been announced. Expressive Connections is a network for creative professionals – aimed at aspiring and accomplished writers and artists who are looking to begin or advance in a career utilizing their talent. The site is in a sort of alpha-mode right now. We think it’s got a...
Sigh. Wow. I’ve just successfully created a Ruby on Rails forum for the site that you’ve all been eagerly awaiting (don’t worry, it’ll be public soon – just a few more weeks!). It’s pretty simple thus far. I spent the last two days just working on basic functionality. Nothing fancy…yet. ;) This forum is...
Here’s a few things that I think are worth mentioning but don’t necessarily need their own posts. First, you know ads are going to reach the News Feed of Facebook users any-day now, when you see flyers all over your campus asking students to join the Crest WhiteStrips Facebook group. Here’s a link to...
So for the last week and a half, I’ve been building a Rails application for my HTML course – Interactive Media I. The “Final Project”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/?page_id=3 for my class is to create a “significant” website by manually coding HTML and CSS, in a small group. Well, we are definitely shooting for “significant.” I’m not going...
Sometimes it takes me a while to see how amazing things are. And then **(big)BAM!!** all of a sudden it will come to me. At that point of realization, I will either become extremely excited or extremely confused. Like just now I realized how perfectly my floor lamp lights up my tapestry-covered bedroom during...