Work Notes

Workflow
2009-11-23

I've been interested in Workflow and Business Process Management. Boiling business processes down to essential components, such as:

  • Input
  • Approval
  • Execute
  • Record
  • Reconcile
I've seen quite a few workflow products on the market, and...

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Student Lottery "App"
2009-11-19

Spring is around the corner, and the school will be accepting new Student Applications. The Middle School Program is strong and a Waiting List is anticipated for 6th grade enrollment, like every year. Last year, I wrote a webpage that pulls the names of the students from a flat-file...

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Google Apps & Ruby/Rails
2009-11-17

At MITA, we use Google Apps for email, and online documents, spreadsheets, forms, chat, and more. I've been weaving Applications together in an Intranet, using Ruby & Rails. Ruby is a pleasure to work with - it is logical, flexible, and powerful object-oriented scripting-type language. The "Sta...

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Website Redesign
2009-11-15

Recently, I've been working on a redesign of this website - focusing on more color and applicable content. The Knight Foundation has a contest that ends on Dec 15, which I've been contemplating along with too many other good ideas to pursue at once....

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Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
2009-11-09

I've met with the good people from Shepherd of the Hills Church regarding a website redesign. Like many organizations, they want a quality web-presence, but lack a dedicated, technical resource. Afomi was designed specifically for this situation, and I'm glad we may be able to work together to get a ...

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Ruby PDF Writer
2009-01-14

At MITA, there is an an older model HP Laserjet (some model number), plotter printer, and I really wanted to make use of it. Because I had discovered many invalid Re-Enrollment records in PowerSchool, I wanted to visualize the records to get a clear sense of the the data structure. Neverthel...

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