Category Archives: Tools and methods

Interface Analysis

I’m pursuing yet another certification, this time the IIBA‘s CBAP, for Certified Business Analysis Professional. I chose a 35-hour training course run as a series of interactive webinars over seven successive weekend days and during the second session this past … Continue reading

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Screen Scraping

At my PHP meetup the other night some of the folks were discussing upgrade paths for content management systems, especially Drupal. They noted that there isn’t yet a good upgrade path to the most recent version from the previous version. … Continue reading

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A Better Insight Into Agile and Scrum Roles

I’ve been attending a lot of meetups over the last few months and the one for the Pittsburgh chapter of the IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysts) was special because of the terrific speaker. A gentleman named Rick Clare gave … Continue reading

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Data Collection: Minimum Sample Size

While searching my hard drive for images representative of data collection I stumbled upon something I’ve also had in mind to look for, which is guidance on how to determine the minimum required sample size. The formulas are usually variations … Continue reading

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GitHub — Ya Gotta Start Somewhere

I’ve had brief encounters with GitHub over time but not enough to gain any muscle memory. As I’m finalizing the last bits of static content for my website, learning how to work with GitHub makes a good side project. https://github.com/rpchurchill … Continue reading

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Reproducing A Clever Animation Product, Part 29

It took a bit of experimentation but the ultimate fix turned out to be quite simple. If the browser’s JavaScript interpreter strips off the second parameter then we can just duplicate the first one. It might not give exactly the … Continue reading

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Reproducing A Clever Animation Product, Part 28

In keeping with this week’s theme of researching backward compatibility of the various projects I’ve worked on over the past year I decided to figure out why parts of my fast animation framework weren’t updating as expected. The short answer … Continue reading

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Hello, Fort Nelson, BC

Couple of things to report. One, the simulations of maintenance logistics I worked on with RTR Technologies, while working on and with the Aircraft Maintenance Model, incorporated a number of concepts. Many of these were defined in the NAMP (Naval … Continue reading

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Reproducing A Clever Animation Product, Part 26

I got the basics of the fountain effect working. I defined forty elements, gave them random characteristics in a loop, set a delay of 1.5 seconds from the end of the previous animation element, then set the forty elements to … Continue reading

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Reproducing A Clever Animation Product, Part 25

I sat down to add in the mods that would allow me to reproduce the fountain effect I’ve described, building on yesterday’s work, and immediately identified some issues. Those will have to be sorted out before proceeding. The animation capability … Continue reading

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