Make Me A Baseball Card is Live!
I've always been a coding tinker-er but most of my personal projects never really "went live". This year I made a new years resolution to design, develop and deploy an app all the way through.
I'm proud to announce that I flipped the switch and my first personal project went live last night! You can check it out here: MakeMeABaseballcard.com There were lots of late nights and lots of coffee. It was like having a 2nd part-time job. Whew...
What is it?
MakeMeABaseballcard.com lets someone track their baseball stats and print out their very own baseball card.
When they click the Print Card link, we open a new window and they can print their card directly through the browser's print functionality. Here's my printed card.
What's next?
There are a TON of things I want to add. Keep an eye on the facebook page for new features!
What Worked (surprisingly) Well – Sprint Tracker in Source Control
This past sprint retrospective the team proposed that we change up the way our scrum team reports on task progress. The team proposed that we keep our Sprint Tracker excel document in source control. Then prior to the daily standup meeting each team member would check out the document, update the time remaining on their tasks, and check it back in.
I am surprised at how well this worked! I was expecting that nobody would participate or somebody would forget to checkin and then go on vacation or any number of possibilities. But I'm proud to report our standups are more effective and efficient because we spend more time to discussing what was done, what to do and what things are standing in the way.
Let me try and explain in more detail.
My Favorite Safari Extension – Ultimate Status Bar
I love Safari as my default browser. But there was one little tiny thing that drove me nuts: you don't see the URL when you hover over a hyperlink. I often found myself right-click > copy link > paste in text editor. Annoying.
I finally decided to see if anyone else shared my annoyance and if anyone else did something about it. I came across the Ultimate Status Bar extension and immediately tried it out. Simple, Perfect and Exactly what I was looking for. I love it when I get small wins like this!
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Heres a screen shot from the Ultimate Status Bar download page:
Cheap and Easy Puppy Cam with iCam
Yeah, she's cute isn't she? She's about 5 months old in that picture. During the early weeks/months of crate training she would whine when we left her but when we came home she would be sleeping like a little angle. So we were wondering how long she was whining when we left.
A couple of our friends had a similar situation with their dog crying and destroying things while they were at work. They ended up installing a web cam so they could check on him during the day. I was intrigued and was looking for a weekend project, so I decided to look into "puppy cams".
I did some googling and ended up on a bunch of hybrid technology + pet lovers message boards (yeah, the internet has everything). Most of the suggestions involved dropping some $$ at Best Buy and calling Comcast to get a static IP address -- neither of these things sounded like fun. But eventually (buried on some message board somewhere) I came across iCam by SKJM.
This was perfect!
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