The ongoing conversation
If a group already maintains a calendar, giving them a second place to enter the same events creates another burden. It also creates a question when the two versions disagree: which one should everyone believe? Old joke: a man with one watch always knows what time it is, but a man with two watches is […]
Shelves in the St Helena Archives. Photo by Luke McKernan (CC BY-SA 2.0). An old event report doesn’t need a new font badly enough to lose its address. As I worked on the Miami Valley Orienteering Club website, the results archive was part of what the new site needed to keep: documents accumulated over years, […]
You click Save, the server records your changes, but the response never reaches your browser. The screen can’t confirm the save. Clicking Save again seems reasonable, but that’s awkward if it creates a second copy of what you just saved. In reliability work I did for an existing community application, recovery had to account for […]
Some quick rules of thumb for those of you with a website and a website admin (someone you contact when you need something changed or updated on the site), based on my attempts to do some things with those websites: Is it your domain name, or the website admin’s? This is the realm of the […]
Quizgle is live! Quizgle is a puzzle game where you have to guess the words that were used to generate the displayed search results. At a game of five rounds, you can share your result to see if your friends can beat your score. I had a lot of fun working on the database side of […]