July 19
The Tale of the Tail Light
A bad day gets a little worse with a bump from a break lever to the tail light of a Honda.
July 20
Rhode Island Rebuild by
This month's snapshot of the ongoing project that is my parent's retirement home in Rhode Island.
July 22
Jump Scrolling
A usability issue when using Mac OS X's NSOutlinePanel. Opening and closing a folder in conjunction with the scroll bar can cause the view to "jump" out from under you. Not a big deal, but it is annoying.
July 26
Looking For Anything Plugged In And Warm
I halved my PG&E bill, but it took months of trial and error and uncovering all those pesky plugged in transformers.
Work
Nurse Scheduling
Demo time! If you want to see what we've been working on, click here. There are two parts to the demo, the first is an admin view where you can upload nursing schedules as they come out of Stanford's big dollar payroll/scheduling system. The second part is a viewer, where you can view the schedule.
All well and good, but unfortunately the schedule as it comes out of the system only reflects reality for a few days. After that the nurses have swapped around shifts so often as to be nearly useless. Our next milestone is to create a shift "swapping" system that saves the admin time, and keeps the schedule correct.
The demo is being served up off of a DSL line, so its a bit slow. After the next milestone, I think I'll move it to Hinkty. If you would be so kind, don't off delete schedules. Feedback is of course appreciated!
