The I.T. Life

One of the Chrysler PR staffers that works on the Twitter account put both feet in there mouth today. The below tweet we quickly removed (probably as fast as the staffer was fired) but the internet won’t let them forget about it.

Its hard to do a development blog, I’ve learn’t this. For a few reasons, mainly because anything really cool is protected behind NDA contracts, and also your so busy working on stuff, you don’t get a chance to talk about it. I keep a semi-up to date portfolio at http://jeffreyhann.com/portfolio.php but what isn’t up there yet is what I’m sharing with you now.
I’m working on a flash game at work. It will be release as a casual game, and its basically a puzzle game. It is very cool, there is nothing like it, and you will love it. But that’s all I can say.
I’m now the webmaster for Hal-Con (http://hal-con.com/), a local (re: Halifax) comic book and sci-fi convention that will be having its first year in the fall of 2010. I’ve set them up with a PHPBB forum and am working with them on getting a mailing list setup as well, other than that its small update, but still nice to do some volunteer work.
I’m also taking over the website for E2C, a huge orienteering challenge with both 8 and 24 hour courses. This is run by HRSAR, with lots of community support. To explain how tough this can be, the military runs it yearly. However anyone can do it, you choose the pace. Anyways, its a pretty basic site right now, but I’m gonna fix that, I’m thinking Drupal, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, and updating there current payment system to PayPal (currently accepts checks by mail).
Thats about it for now

I love TweetDeck, even more so because it lets me organize all my follows on twitter in groups, much better than the new feature twitter is coming out with. My problem is I have probably 75% of my follows in groups, but I had no way to quickly skim through the other 25%. Meaning I want a way to read everyone that is not in a group. I finally figure out a easy way. After I read through each group (or column) at the bottom, click the button “mark all as read”. Once I’m done, click the button “clear seen tweets” under the “All Friends” column. Then, this column only contains tweets that are not in a group. Perfect!