At work the other day, I ran into a somewhat odd problem. I had a Windows server with nearly 3,000 folders, each containing a PDF file and an empty ZIP file, looking a little something like this: 2ec99d82-4b79-4454-9f4a-3b52c1cc63cc |– 2ec99d82-4b79-4454-9f4a-3b52c1cc63cc.zip |– 2ec99d82-4b79-4454-9f4a-3b52c1cc63cc.pdf Sidenote: In case you’re curious, that long, weird looking string of numbers and […]
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I don’t think I’ve officially mentioned this on my blog before, but one of the two businesses I helped startup is a company called Greeneye e-Manifest. What we do, in a nutshell, is make very easy for Canadian trucking companies to submit an electronic manifest of what’s in their trailers, and where it’s coming from, […]
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Blog Recommendation: Brazen Careerist
Though I didn’t have much time for blogging last week in between work and life, I wanted to pass along one of my favorite new blogs to you. It’s called Brazen Careerist, by Boston Globe columnist Penelope Trunk. Penelope offers lots of great career advice to readers, especially those on the early end of their […]
I’m excited to say that very soon I will be finally be able to tell you all where I’ve been working and what I’ve been working on for over a year. It took a lot longer than any of us expected, but all of that extra time means a product that is beyond anything we […]
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Destressing
Yesterday marked the end of one of the most stressful work weeks I can ever remember. We were planning to start using our main software system on Tuesday, but technical problems reigned supreme. One critical piece of the application we’re using is its ability to communicate to a certain 3rd party’s software system through a […]
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Too Much To Do
It seems that I’ve just got way too much stuff going on at work right now. Besides learning the industry and the business development things we’re working on, I’m also chest-deep in all sorts of technology that’s new to me. I’ve got my hands on everything from Voice Over IP, to OpenVMS, basic networking (subnets […]
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Hasta Lasagna!
My cubicle is now, for all practical purposes, cleaned out. I can’t believe how much crap I had hidden in this little space. This is probably the cleanest it’s ever been: Leaving EduTech also means saying goodbye to my constant cubicle companion: my PowerMac. She made my web design work seem like it wasn’t work […]
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Exit Strategy
Since graduating from UND with my undergraduate degee in 2001 (I majored in Information Systems), I’ve been working for EduTech (previously known as SENDIT), a North Dakota state organization dedicated to assisting ND K-12 schools with technology. I spent the first couple of years serving schools in the northeast part of the state, offering advice […]
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New EduTech Website – One Month Update
Ok, so it’s not exactly one month yet, but November 15th was supposed to be the go live date for the new EduTech website until Kael decided to arrive a little earlier than planned. I think enough time has passed to make a few observations and discuss some of the lessons learned. First, the feedback […]
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New EduTech Website Launched
Tonight the world (or maybe just North Dakota) finally got to see what I’ve been working on for the last several months. We launched the new EduTech website at about 5:30 this evening. So far, things are looking very good. I’m spending the night performing triage by fixing broken links as missing pages are discovered […]