Blog & Photography
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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Creating an AI-Driven Portfolio Builder
One of my recent projects leverages GPT models to create an AI-driven portfolio builder. The idea behind it was to help individuals, especially those without HTML/CSS…
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Synced Patterns in WordPress with Overrides and Unsupported Blocks
One of the exciting features of WordPress is the ability to create synced patterns, allowing you to reuse design blocks across your site while maintaining consistency.…
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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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Come to my HTML / CSS Workshop at RIT hosted by WIC
Please join me at RIT’s Women in Computing meeting on October 5th where I will be hosting a Web Development Workshop covering HTML and CSS. If you have…
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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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A Personal Portfolio Page and Blog on The Open Web
I recently stumbled upon a portfolio-style website that I liked, belonging to Dries Buytaert founder and lead of Drupal. I specifically like the About me section and think I am…
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Moving my site to Drupal?
2024 UPDATE: My site has since been moved away from Drupal! I still really like Drupal and will continue to work with especially for clients. I…
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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!