My work is in the LRT station (the photo of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in the shape of a 60). Finally seeing it in person.
Douglas Dollars is Six Times Alive
This site contains things that I find interesting that you will also likely find interesting. I won't be this way very long so I'm trying to explain to you who I am through the content of this site.
More of me: Daily photography, Twitter, my portrait studio RAD GRANDPA, and bringing you there
More of me: Daily photography, Twitter, my portrait studio RAD GRANDPA, and bringing you there
“Hey eight-year-old me, when you’re grown up you’ll have a robot assistant you’ve named Frank who will return an image of anyone you can think of …with a fake moustache. It will only take three seconds for him to do it.”
the dopest artists are back.
Confirmed by the man himself minutes ago, I’ve got a two-page spread in the upcoming Tepsic Magazine.
New versions of
— Careers site!
by: Darko/myself/Jordan (company name: 200 Sheep)
— Roadside Assistance Wait Times app!
by: Mike/Paul (company name: 2001 / Golden Cabbage)
Design by Sarah on all.
Careers takes advantage of the Google Search Appliance for searching the job postings. Benefits from it include catching typos in queries, synonyms, and generally keeping us from having to build our own Google competitor to search roughly 30 job postings (which would be impossibly stupid).
Roadside Assistance Wait Times makes good use of the Google Maps API and a humongous Oracle database full of partner info on what their ability to provide towing, tire repair, fuel and battery services. The public view is updated every five minutes from our own service database, so you’re getting a more honest answer from us than any other resource we can find.
One of my biggest pushes is transparency, anything we can do to expose to the public information that we currently have locked away is helpful to everyone in the conversation. Knowing that we can’t help you for an hour is much less vexing when you know why we can’t get to you and that an hour means an actual hour.
Never excuses, answers.
We’re completely moved in to our new office now, and have even added a tree which I gave an outfit this morning. (Click the photo for a larger version)
There’s a lot this photo does not show, but I’ll say that it’s on purpose rather than just due to a slapdash effort in capturing it photographically. My space is the rightmost. There will be white boards all along the right wall and we plan to project movies onto them.
I nearly responded to an email that ended with
Have a great weekend!
with
“YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO.”
Fortunately I remembered that not everyone has the same sense of humor as I do on a Friday morning.
My office is slowly getting nicer. Shelves are in but not entirely organized. Art from Mike Monteiro is in, but not yet framed, and a space is saved between the shelves for a reading chair which I have yet to acquire.
Overall, not too shabby. I’m mostly messing with scale here- Huge art (30” x 40”), huge whiteboard (48” x 36”), huge shelves (72” x 72” +), and huge monitor (30”) makes everything appear perfectly normally-sized. You can do great things in an empty office when it’s filled with only a few important pieces.
Doug Stewart, internet professional.
No, really, that’s a slideshow of sorts showing part of yesterday’s creative output. Today I’ll give a talk on how adding vignette to a photo will fool people into thinking it’s art and liking it more because vagueness and a lack of reality in art invites the viewer to replace the unknown or incomplete properties with their own memories, feelings, and ideas.
I don’t understand this life either.
I attended Web Content 2010 and these are some of the photos of my non-conference time.
Me. Today I’m helping the company set up its first multivariate test.
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Note: This email seems long, but it’s quick to do and gives you valuable real-world experience in a new art.
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I’m editing a presentation I could talk about for hours into only ten minutes. A lot has to go to keep the point focused.
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Clutching to your one half-working idea like it’s a life raft while everyone else knows it’s a weight around our necks.
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I announced it on Twitter a couple days ago, but my project of documenting the web analytics setup and processes for this organization is now complete. What a beast!
That said, if anyone is looking to pay me a lot of money to come by for a week or two to teach your organization about what they can be doing to better track your visitors, your customers (yeah, they’re different from your visitors), their online goals, your online goals, and the wild (and profitable) relationship between all those things there has never been a better time to make me an offer.
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22,414 words, 17 documents. An additional 5,517 words exist in a definitions document.
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Me. Document process and interface every day.
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Today is going to be a 2500 word day
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We’re hiring to replace this guy. No, he didn’t get fired, he got sideways-promoted into another department. But the point of this is that we want someone better and hopefully cool.
If you are half-decent with Java and actually know that CSS isn’t just a band from Brazil, PLEASE apply. Even if you’re insecure about your skills, I encourage you strongly to apply. We’re not likely to get many candidates (because we didn’t put the ad anywhere but our own site!), and I really don’t want to end up with the new developer being the only developer who applies.
For all I’ve complained, this is a group that is about to re-do the framework under our gargantuan site and is turning a very major corner in terms of leaving poor development practices behind. This means that the first project you’re involved in will be one that you get a huge amount of kudos for, with most of the heavy work already planned.
P.S.: Probably $50k+, 3 weeks vacation to start, a good training and conference budget, and very liberal concepts of “lunch hour” and “15 minute breaks.”
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