I just got done switching the Moped Army website to a new database. I wanted to do this so that everything Moped Army related was on one server, without any data from my other web projects. With the website being as popular as it is it�s hard to do much of anything without effecting users. The process only took a few minutes but as soon as it came back up there was a post in the forum about the disturbance. That�s pretty cool.
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So last week I sent my resume to a company in Chicago, applying for a programming position. The ridiculous thing is that I left off the two largest programming jobs I�ve done: Abacus Realty and DC Job Tracking. I suppose if I get any futher in the hiring process I can mention them�how could I forget these?
All programming jobs are hard to show somebody else, since there often isn�t anything to see that represents all the work that was done. These two jobs are particularly hard though. The Abacus job is a full content management system for a real estate company to manage listings and photographs�but they�re not using it due to a company sale. The job tracking project is a really complex system and allows two different ranks of users (teachers and students) to create, assign, and manage jobs, histories, and users for a graphic design agency. There are tons of cool little features in this site�but it�s a closed system that you need a password to access, so I can�t really show it off.
I guess a really good description would work, but then the potential employer has to take your word for it.
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I checked a book out of the library that Sarah Williams had recommended to me a long time ago. The writing is about societal changes and the speed of things now-a-days, which was an interesting and enjoyable read. However, the design is awful. Full articles in capital letters, single column pages where the type stretches on for 10 inches, and type running over light photographs making it extremely hard to read. This is a good example of one of those books where the designer tries to get away with doing something cool with the design�and throws away the idea of typography and readability while (s)he�s at it.
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