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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Category Archives: Programming
Quote of the day: NITF
“OMG I can hear the clunking sounds coming from the [NITF website](http://www.nitf.org/)” — IM conversation with [Zellyn](http://www.zellyn.com)
Posted in Journalism, Programming, Technology
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My favorite Web development laws
From the [great list over at Blue Flavor](http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/thinking/the_immutable_laws_of_web_design_and_development.php): ###Lister’s Law### People under time pressure don’t think faster. ###Hofstadter’s Law### A task always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Posted in Management, Programming
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Urban renewal for data ghettos
So, I gather that in newsrooms it’s become [fashionable](http://dunes.cincinnati.com/data/) to [put](http://www2.tbo.com/static/news-special-reports-data-bay/tbo-special-reports-database-main-page/) [public](http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=LOCAL08) [records](http://www.azcentral.com/datacenter/) [online](http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=data). I totally love the term that [Matt Waite](http://www.mattwaite.com/2008/01/02/data-ghettos/) coined — calling them [data ghettos](http://www.mattwaite.com/2008/01/02/data-ghettos/): > But if you take a step into one of the databases … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, Journalism, Programming
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Let’s not forget about graceful degradation
Far be it from me to be a [nattering nabob of negativity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew), but in all the Web 2.0 euphoria (I hate that name, BTW), let’s not forget about graceful degradation. Let’s examine the discussion between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Technology, Web design
Tagged browsers, graceful degradation
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AJC development group mentioned at APME
We’re in [film!](http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/soundslides/ajc_apme/soundslider.swf) Robin Henry, our Digital Managing Editor extraordinaire, spoke at a recent [Associated Press Managing Editors conference](http://www.apme.com/) and screened this [Soundslides presentation](http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/soundslides/ajc_apme/soundslider.swf) that Emily Murphy and the [AJC](http://www.ajc.com)’s multimedia group put together. I look and sound like a … Continue reading
Posted in Django, Journalism, Programming, Python, Technology
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