COLLEEN ROBLEDO Web Developer | Librarian | Researcher | Genealogist

PCWorld published a good article yesterday discussing the challenges of telecommuting for IT jobs.

I particularly like the observation made about how allowing some staff to telecommute and not others affects the morale of those left behind working in the office every day.

We're looking to integrate Dojo into our site redesign at work over the next couple months, so I'm reading up on it a bit.

Dojo is an open source Java tookit that makes it much easier to integrate web 2.0 features into a site.

After one day of reading and checking out examples, I'm digging it. It looks fairly easy to learn and implement. I'll have a better feel for it over the next couple weeks.

Public web application providing e-commerce functionality. Allows consumers to purchase and swap gift cards, register gift card and loyalty program balances to earn interest, and receive targeted offers from retail partners. Owned and published by my employer, Leverage, Inc.

Site Name: LeverageCard.com

Development Environment:

• Powered by: Grails (v. 1.0.3)
• Database server: MySQL
• Application release: 2.0

My personal family history, which I use to organize my research and family documents, and to share my research with extended family and other researchers from around the globe who may be researching the same lines. Permission levels set to limit membership to only certain branches, and restrict data about living individuals from non-authenticated users. Installed, configured, designed, administered, and published by me.

Site Name: Colleen's Connections

Development Environment: