Blog & Photos
Explore my latest Tech Blogs, and Travel Photo Galleries. A mix of work and play here; though down the road I will divide these a bit! To Learn more about the Projects and things I have worked on please visit the skills explorer on the homepage!
Tech Blog
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An Introduction to REST APIs and fetching data from Yelp Part 1
Note: This is part of a tutorial series. I am currently working to separate tutorials out to their own section, but for now just posting in…
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From Code to Community (Video)
Checkout my recent talk at RIT, I will share my experiences of transforming a typical group project that was done with a made-up client / topic…
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FeedMasher Project Finally Moving to Opensource
I am in the process of moving FeedMasher a web aggregation framework I have worked on for several years to open source.
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Usability Testing of The First Niagara Website
I haven’t included much of my MS work on my website but wanted to share on my blog one I was really proud of as we…
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Eye Tracking 101
Eye tracking sounds very elegant when one talks about studying a sites overall usability. However I found that it is very challenging to conduct. Part of…
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(Archive) Traveling Lite: Highedweb Milwaukee 09
This year I was fortunate enough to attend the “Higher Education Web Professionals” conference (HighEdWeb for short) in Milwaukee WI. I say fortunate because we all…
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(Archive) JFusion Elgg Plugin
Recently I have been working with the JFusion team on an Elgg integration plugin, and happy to hear a new version has just been released with the Elgg…
Photo Galleries
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Chicago Mix 2023/2024
Always manage to make a few stops in Chicago every year to visit a friend, and make some new ones. A bunch of photos in this…
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Puerto Rico 2022 (and a few from 2018)
I first visited Puerto Rico in 2018 and finally got to revisit it for a bit longer in 2022. Both trips have been after the big…
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Denver in Summer 2021
This was one of the few times I visited Denver not in the winter to Ski. It ended up being an amazing time, there really is…
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Costa Maya & Cozumel
Rented this awesome VW beetle in Cozumel to explore the island on our own. Definitely recommend you do this versus a guided tour. The car was…
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Cuba 2018
I visited Cuba as it was on the bucket list, and a great opportunity arose with a great group of friends. Glad I made it before…
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London 2016
Had a lovely but short trip to London. I definitely want to go back; and even had plans to go back till Covid hit! Oh well.…
Skills Explorer
To Learn more about the Projects and things I have worked on please visit the skills explorer on the homepage!