It’s getting to the end of New England Give Camp, the “coding for charity” event being held at the Microsoft NERD Center this weekend. Sunday morning was spent reviewing what we’d got done and wrapping up loose ends. After lunch (which was delicious mini-burgers made with locally raised beef), we finished up and started writing [...]

It was actually quite a busy day after lunch. Our team tackled a number of issues that I at first thought were more trivial than they turned out to be. No big surprises there. What I did find novel was the experience of working with a team that possessed overlapping skills again, instead of being [...]

Everyone is here now so we’re now going through the task list as it exists. We’re also going through the fundamentals to find out the needs of the organization itself. Clients, in my experience, often are fixated on the specific fixes they want to see, so designers / developers have to ask for the reason [...]

After about 4 hours of sleep at New England GiveCamp, I’m up and groggy, but feeling like working while my mind is still kind of mushy. Does that even make sense. Gar. Anyway, there are a number of technical tasks on the list today. One of them is to back up the database on the [...]