Three marketing slogans that (really) don’t suck
"Where's the beef" might be the champion of product slogans from the 80s. And while the examples I found recently may not match that masterful three-word winner, they are good examples of marketing slogans that don't suck. At all.
Read MoreServing tech-savvy students
Last Friday I presented at the WaACRAO annual conference on a topic near and dear to my heart: technology. Specifically, how websites, social media web services can improve how technology-savvy college students interact with their schools' admissions and registrar's offices.
Read MoreReading too much into webserver file names
Here's my observation: On Apache/Linux-based web servers, the file within each directory that is looked for is called index.html. On the IIS/Windows platform, the file is called default.html. Index. Default. Each carries a certain connotation... does that connotation imply anything about the platform on which these files exist? Or am I just reading far too much into something completely innocuous?
Read MoreVince DeMiero: educator, leader, and soon to be legislator
It was 1992. George Bush—the elder—had just thrown up on the Japanese Prime Minister. Another momentous event took place at MTHS, when Vince DeMiero asked me, an introverted freshman, to join the school newspaper the Hawkeye. And though that request didn't cause quite the international frenzy that George's upchuck did, it sure changed my life. My friend Vince DeMiero is running for Washington State Representative (democrat, position 1) in the first legislative district. He'll be an amazing force in Olympia and deserves your vote and support.
Read MoreA visual aid for common database operations
My database work these days as a web developer and programmer is pretty simple. In fact, much of the database work I do involves four basic operations: adding items to or removing them from the beginning/bottom or end/top of a database. So I whipped up this visual that illustrates these common DB-manipulation tasks.
Read MoreNow Reading
Planned books:
None
Current books:
The Player of Games (Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Recent books:
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
- House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
- The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman