One More Update to the Door Sign Javascript

One more set of bug fixes for this original post. Sometime early this week, Twitter broke some redirection I had been relying on. That is, if I was on my phone, URLs on twitter.com automatically redirected to mobile.twitter.com and kept all my parameters for status and such. mobile.twitter.com had no problem handling the request if …

Updated HTML and Python code for Tweetable Office Door Sign

See the original post for the basic information. This post exists only to highlight a few bug fixes. Since running with my sign for a few days, the main bug I’ve run into is that Twitter doesn’t let you post identical status messages over a short period of time. One recommended fix is to append …

Work in Progress: Tweetable Office Door Sign

A sizable amount of my work week is spent outside of my office, and is difficult to schedule ahead of time: Material testing jobs show up with little notice. Students or faculty need help fixing a coding, instrumentation, or other problem, and it’s easiest to fix those on-site rather than in my office. etc. I’ve …

re:PocketMod – DIY Tiny Paper Organizer

I’m not giving up my Treo 700p as my regular organizer, but there are times when I recognize the advantages of paper. re:PocketMod is a site with a Flash application on it that lets you lay out and print 8 pages of information onto a single 8.5×11 sheet of paper. Properly cut and folded, the …

DIY Planner style TTU Campus Map

A user over at diyplanner.com posted a simple campus map and course information template for college students. I thought it might be useful to make one for TTU. So here you go: PDF version, ready to be printed onto two side-by-side pages. Not sure why the fonts didn’t completely translate over. OpenOffice.org version, ready to …

Simple Time Log for OpenOffice (and soon, Excel)

Last year, I threw together a mildly intelligent Excel spreadsheet that would help me add up release time entries for various projects, and posted it to an earlier version of this 43 Folders topic. Since they converted from their old forum software to Drupal, my spreadsheet attachment got lost. And since I couldn’t find it …

Filing 29 GB of Project Materials

I keep around a lot of project and class materials, both paper and electronic. As far as paper goes: 1 lateral file drawer of B.S. and M.S. class materials 1 lateral file drawer of regular work materials 2 lateral file drawers emptied within the last few months. These mostly contained student tests, projects, and records …