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Why Women in Tech?

There has been a lot of discussion lately about women in tech groups. To start with, a quick roundup: Rebecca Stavick’s Post Ladies only? No thanks and the follow-up OMG. Someone read my blog. Coral...

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MVC Views: To template or not to template?

At work we have recently been researching various web frameworks to replace our aging cocoon/SOLR solution for the majority of our websites. Cocoon has served us well for our TEI based websites, but it...

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Diversity at Tech Conferences

I wasn’t going to write about this because, honestly, I don’t want to get in the middle of a flame war but I do think it is important so here I go anyway. Recently I was contacted by a reporter for the...

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Artifact Conference: Brief Notes

Below are my sketchy notes of things I wanted to remember from Artifact Conference, which I just attended in Austin Texas. Beware: these are barely proofread and are mostly for myself. Welcome to...

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Some More Thoughts on Artifact Conference

As you may have gathered from my so called “brief notes” on the Artifact Conference there was a lot to take in. This was my first conference entirely devoted to front end web design, here are my...

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Making and Money

Geoff and I attended the #MakerMonday event, part of Lincoln Startup Week. It was a great event, with talks by Marc Kornbluh, Lincoln Hot Glass Studios & High Volume Oxygen; Vishal Sing, Quantified...

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We are hiring a Digital Humanities Programmer!

(If this looks familiar, it’s because I posted a similar post the last time we hired) I head up the tech team at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, and we are hiring a full time...

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Moving from Evernote to Google Drive

I couldn’t find an easy explanation for exporting Evernote notes (not attachments) into Google Drive, so I’m writing up the process I used. This is pretty quick and dirty and isn’t perfect, but worked...

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Donation Gift List

My families ask for a gift list each year and this year especially I’m having a hard time coming up with things. So I wrote this, and we’ll see how it goes. I’m posting here as a possible model for...

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DIY Laser Cut Under Cabinet Shelves (spice rack, tea shelf)

I recently posted an image of some shelves I built on instagram, and there was enough interest I though I would post a how to and the files in case anyone wants to make their own. These shelves require...

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