Category Archives: work

I wish CSS was smarter…

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Josh Peters

There’s a wonderful technology for XML called XPath. XML as you may know is a structured markup language that represents a document as a tree. XPath allows you to find parts of that tree (called nodes, actually there are several … Continue reading →

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The Toyota Way

Posted on January 31, 2007 by Josh Peters

Today I read Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way [pdf], by Matthew May. It’s an inspiring read that really challenges some notions of what should drive business.� The most impressive part (and perhaps the most in need of pronoun … Continue reading →

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My (First) Spin-Off

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Josh Peters

Well folks, I’m spinning off my left-brain into a new blog. I’ve decided that I’ve been mixing too many different types of information into this site and want to separate out my work-type thoughts into a new blog and keep … Continue reading →

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Javascript Logging

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Josh Peters

Today I wrote a handy-dandy snippet of Javascript to allow me to use Firebug-style logging for non-Firebug browsers. This is great for keeping track of things in Javascript, though its woefully underpowered compared to Firebug. Here’s the initial code: window.console … Continue reading →

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Writing a REST Webservice: part 2 “REST Requirements”

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Josh Peters

Today’s REST topic concerns the environment in which you can serve a REST web service. If you noticed from yesterday’s article our table “A Blog Broken Down” explaining our representations showed several URIs. There are few ways to store your … Continue reading →

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Writing a REST Webservice: part 1 “What is REST?”

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Josh Peters

I’ve been working a lot recently with Yahoo’s great Javascript toolkit, YUI and have used it to talk to some web services I’ve created for various apps done in the REST style. REST is an architectural style that encourages the … Continue reading →

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Building the One Repository

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Josh Peters

Yesterday I completed work on a task that I’ve been ducking at work for about a month: combining all of our software repositories into one, big repo.

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sed is great!

Posted on July 5, 2006 by Josh Peters

Today I finally got around to working smarter I learned how to use sed. I’ve been working on a project at work for a few weeks that consists of a few hundred or so ASP files. Each of these files … Continue reading →

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Happy Day!

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Josh Peters

I got great news for a Friday afternoon–gainful employment! Administrative Information Systems has decided to transfer my position be my new home. Quite fun. I will be keeping my existing projects too, which is pretty sweet. Today I met with … Continue reading →