Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-13

May, 13 2012 | Minor Updates | Crystal | No comments
  • Someone left old bay brats at my house during my birthday cookout. Not the best of meals, but might end up being dinner tonight #
  • Respect to Scarlett Johansson on her take on The Avengers and female superheroines: http://t.co/e3AUetCX #
  • Mmm, liquid meals. #
  • Made a lima bean, tomato, garlic, rosemary soup last night. Was excellent, though sorta winged so I'm not sure of future progress :P #
  • Need to clean off my twitter feed. Lotta people that are not relevant to me #
  • By the end of the day I'm going to have a pile of dirt under my desk from these muddy boots #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-06

May, 06 2012 | Minor Updates | Crystal | No comments
  • Researching various subscription sites for mobile/tablet emulation for design/testing. #
  • I'm going to be in supplement hell next week. Just ordered some stuff for my workouts and new resistance bands (@barthelfitness) #
  • I hate how one weird tag issue specifically causing havoc in IE7 can blow up an entire site and take hours to track down #
  • Love my pitt <3 RT: @robinsantangelo: Frederick News Post: County to continue offering pit bulls for adoption ~ http://t.co/QvWin133 #
  • IE8 jQuery debugging sucks, just sayin' #webdev #
  • Three new site launches for me in the last month, about to be 5! http://t.co/rktrYjl4 :) #
  • New freelance job this week, making that side $ and paying off debt :) Do you follow @themoneydrain yet? #
  • Enjoyed it very much! RT: @fredwebtech: thanks so much to @crystalgroves and @enformeweb hosting our meetup! #
  • Oh right, I forgot I'm hosting the @fredwebtech meetup tonight @enformeweb. Totally wasn't prepared. #
  • Pitbull <3 http://t.co/li7psagl #
  • I've discovered the awesome flavor combination of lime, lemon, and mint. That with avocados, strawberries and greek yogurt make awesome. #
  • RIP Calvin. I messaged you Friday to see if we could hang out, I guess I was too late and you missed it. You will be severely missed. #
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Three New Launches

May, 03 2012 | Web Development | Crystal | No comments

I’ve had a fortunate month lately with three launches, two of which were my first projects as Project Manager AND Developer. My employment made me a project manager in October, so I’ve been working hard to really put my nose to the grindstone and make my projects that I manage process smoothly.

BrainFacts – We don’t do much Section 508 compliance at work, but this site specifically requested to be Section 508 compliant, which is always fun to dive into something more foreign than I am used to. It was built in a different CMS than we usually do, so it has taken some adjusting to try and work with this new platform, and with an outside development source actually applying our code to that CMS rather than doing it ourselves. The workflow wasn’t ideal, and I am still working out some kinks in things, but I’m very happy with the site :)

Cogito – Cogito was a large science/technology/math site for talented youth that they wanted to put into the WordPress format with a community feature. It was quite a challenge, moreso because they wanted it hosted on a different environment that we had limited access in, but it has finally launched. More kinks (mostly IE) to work out on this one as well, but this was another fun project. I simply LOVE working in WordPress :)

Weinberg Center – This was one of my favorite projects. A theatre website converted from archaic classic ASP to WordPress (yay!). A lot of fun to do, but a few cross browser problems I had to deal with.

Work wants to focus a lot on mobile development this year, so while we haven’t put much stock in responsive design on current sites, I’m anxious to start applying these types of things to future sites. I’m going to do more practice on my own personal sites first, because I think it’s really fun and interesting :)

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-29

Apr, 29 2012 | Minor Updates | Crystal | No comments
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-22

Apr, 22 2012 | Minor Updates | Crystal | No comments
  • Yes I spent all day Sunday watching season 1 of Game of Thrones. <3 it #
  • My co-worker talking GoT with me RT: @peterhassett: Photo: More ASOIAF conspiracy theories with my coworkers http://t.co/JhG5QNES #
  • Rooting for my phone has to be so difficult. #
  • Back into work after taking off Fri-Mon for my birthday. But leaving out Thurs for camping in WV. A lot of work to cram into 2 days. #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-15

Apr, 15 2012 | Minor Updates | Crystal | No comments
  • 2 angelfood cakes, a ton of strawberries, whipped cream, and a signed card from co-workers for an early birthday since I'm out tomorrow <3 #
  • Beard Infographic (any woman who cannot handle a beard should man up) http://t.co/YL4xSok3 #beards #
  • Trying to break a 3 year olds butter cravings by giving them as much butter as they want to see if they get sick of it is such a bad idea #
  • Whoever is playing guitar outside pitcrew/velvet lounge, I want to marry you #
  • This is going to make my month. Co-workers doing a beard pack for the #caps Moar beards plz. #
  • Some days I hate all the sweets brought into work. Going to make it a tough day trying to avoid them all today. #
  • Infographic: Metal bands per capita. Time to move to norway http://t.co/hvpGhlA1 #metal #music #\m/ #
  • Looks like Medieval Times might be out for my birthday this weekend. May just stay home and grill meat instead. #birthday #
  • Took off for my birthday this year, first time I've ever taken off for my birthday, I think. #
  • Lookie what I helped make RT: @enformeweb: Check out the new site for @weinbergcenter – http://t.co/DR7FkuFW #webdev #
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