Kansas Mentors
Kansans will now find it easier to connect with mentoring efforts around the state with today’s launch of Kansas Mentors’ newly redesigned Web site at www.kansasmentors.org, a partnership with Kansas.gov. “Since our beginning in 2006, we have been dedicated to recruiting mentors for every young Kansan,” said Kansas State head football coach, Bill Snyder, Chair of Kansas Mentors. “With more people communicating electronically, our enhanced site will be a crucial component to provide every Kansan with the resources they need to make a difference in a young person’s life.” The...
Read MoreKanSite: The Content Management System
KanSite (http://www.kansas.gov/kansite) was created as a Web site content management system for Kansas governmental entities. KanSite is easy to use, improves public access to government services, reduces service-processing costs, and enables governments to deliver a higher quality of services to their constituents. KanSite provides the ability to easily create and maintain a Web site without prior programming or design experience. This content management system is specifically designed for state and municipal governments and offers a full range of solutions for Web design and management. The...
Read MoreKansas Business Center
The Kansas Business Center is one of the more high profile Web sites that I have redesigned. This is a multi-agency collaborative effort and a multi-phased project with one simple objective – to provide business owners and entrepreneurs information, filings and personal assistance to starting and maintaining a Kansas business. This web site was built using the Yahoo User Interface Library for HTML and CSS as well as the jQuery javascript library. This project launched on January 5, 2009.
Read MoreHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sprint
The following is a letter I wrote to Joseph De Avila of the Wall Street Journal in response to his recent article about why some apple fans won’t buy the iPhone. I’m one of those apple fans that owns quite a bit of their products. Here’s my run-down of products: brand new iPod shuffle (red) product from the new ipod line 17″ powerbook (2004 model) 14″ ibook (2004 model) 17″ iMac (2006 model) Apple TV (it’s about 2 weeks old) airport base station (wireless device – 2004 model) Have owned several ipods in the past including the 4th gen 20gb...
Read MoreNow What?
It would appear that I’ve read everything on the Internet there is to read. A nice little easter egg from the development crew at Google. Spotted this today after reading a post on the Official Google Reader Blog called “Doing the Shuffle” which has a video of Robert Scoble showing some efficieny tips on how to go through over 600 RSS feeds extremely quick. I myself only have a little over 60 feeds and I’m always looking for ways to get through them quicker especially the ones that accumulate new stories by the hundreds every day such as Digg and Lifehacker to name a...
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