The usefulness of R.I.V.E.R. is already becoming apparent. In mere moments yesterday, I printed off sign-in forms for the volunteers coming to training tonight--a process that would have taken much longer and never quite looked right under the VMS system. This past weekend, I also cleaned…
Living on a City Year stipend, I am quite poor. As such, I recently decided to feed my hunger for reading by picking up old books from my childhood and giving them another go around. The most recent is The Giver [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440237688/]. This…
City Year tries to be an organization that inspires democracy through citizen service, civic leadership and social entrepreneurship--as the mission statement claims. It appears to be extremely effective at accomplishing these goals among its Corps Members. There are countless stories of CMs graduating to start their own non-profit or altering…
At long last, I completed the needed two hours of programming give users the ability to remove individuals from a project. At the same time, the list of persons on a project became alphabetized and made graphically appealing. Oh so sexy. So, take that to-do list.…
This afternoon, I upgraded the blog to WP1.5, gave it a new theme, and added some happy links to software I use. Hopefully the evolution of the blog continues into the future. :)…
Slow, but steady progress is being made toward v0.2. This past week, I created the ability to generate sign-in sheets by project sorted alphabetically and only having one entry per person. This required some fun array manipulation and loops aplenty. Tonight during the Simpsons, I plan on creating a…
Here are the pictures from my excursion (except for the Bush school... I was much too busy to take many photos there). I am just linking to the pictures rather than including them directly as they are larger files... I am much too lazy to convert them.: SIUC Clocktower: SIUC…
This past weekend I traveled to Southern Illinois University Carbondale, the Clinton School in Little Rock, and the Bush (41) School in College Station, Texas. All three schools were amazing and I consider it an honor to be invited to visit each of their programs. It was an exciting time…