Jamin Hegeman

Tag: Web

  • Top Ten Accomplishments at Pitt 2006

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    My director recently asked everyone in the department for their top 10 accomplishments for 2006, as the end of our fiscal year and reviews are approaching. Even though I’m leaving the University of Pittsburgh on June 30, I decided to submit a list anyway. The list that follows is what I submitted: I introduced the…

  • Working as the Crowd Cheers

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    It’s easy to keep working into the night if you have a soccer match with the constant cheers of the crowd in the background. It also helps if the match is a replay of a game (US vs. Czech Republic) that you would rather not focus on too much so that it’s not visually distracting.

  • Why Use Wireframes?

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    I was reading The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications Case Study: Prototyping Complex Interactions by Andres Zapata on Boxes and Arrows and within the text was this question: Why continue using wireframes? At all? Sometimes my coworkers and I struggle with this same question. Since I often find myself arguing in defense of…

  • Got Mint?

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    I finally ponied over the $30 for Shaun Inman’s web site statistics software, Mint. I talked to Shaun at SXSW. He’s a really nice guy, who also happens to be an excellent designer and programmer. I have been inspired by his code and design more than once. And Mint does not disappoint in the least.…

  • Drupal CMS Switchover

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    A while back I wrote about my first weekend with Drupal, which after exploring other content management systems and a little bit of soul searching, I decided to use for the International Transplant Nurses Society site. While I had already built the site according to a Dreamweaver/Contribute model with custom PHP/MySQL functionality for certain features,…

  • How Old Am I?

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    I had dinner recently with several woman from ITNS – “the nurses,” as one friend coined them. It was the first time I had met most of them. The woman I had met with previously thought I was 24. I was flattered, of course. Another woman, whom I email a lot about updates, thought that…

  • High on Amsterdam

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    I have been told I brought the nice weather from Barcelona here to Amsterdam. Yesterday, I think it was actually nicer than Barcelona. Amsterdam is a very stimulating city, on many levels. I have an excellent personal tour guide who has shown me a good deal of the city and all of its novelty in…

  • Blogging From Barcelona

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    This is day five of my stay in Barcelona. I haven’t accessed the Internet or for three days. That’s quite a record for me. Naturally, the day I left one of my clients decided a feature needed to be available immediately. Six hours ahead, and with some help from support back home, a compromise was…

  • Blogger’s Block Strikes Another

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    Blogger’s block seems to be abound these days. It’s strange how patterns form. Earlier today I read A Realistic Chat About Design Process and wanted to say that part of what Keith Robinson (of Blue Flavor) says there is the post I attempted to write last night, but was too tired. But when going back…