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  • Paul Sizemore 4:36 pm on December 25, 2011 Permalink
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    Best Practices in Coding: A Starting Point 

    When starting development on a new product, it’s often important to establish guidelines of best practices. In the attached, best practices for the Intranet development at Finish Line. 

    best-practices-in-coding-a-starting-pointPractices.docx

  • Paul Sizemore 4:32 pm on December 25, 2011 Permalink
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    Launching Executables from an Intranet Page 

    One of the more rich user experiences on the Finish Line Intranet was the ability to launch the legacy exe executables from a web page. Finish Line standardized on a version of IE that had a security flaw, and we built a shell Active X control that would allow us to pass a path to an executable. This allowed the Intranet to launch local executable files.

    Below are instructions that were prepared to communicate how to launch the first exe Intranet menu item to the Finance Department.

    Accessing the Time and Attendance Links

    You will be able to access the Time and Attendance Links by:

    1. Access the Intranet (http://tflweb)
    2. Click on the Finance folder.
    3. Click on the Applications folder.

    The Employee Inquiry link is the same as empmod.exe from the handouts.  This is the function that allows hourly employees to view only and salaried employees the ability to add, delete or change their vacation and personal/sick time.

    The Time Clock link is the same as the pcte.exe from the handouts.  This is for hourly employees only to clock in and out.  The Time Clock shortcut at the top of the front page also takes you directly to the clock in junction.

    The Manager Inquiry is for supervisor use only.

    Click on the appropriate link to get to the password page.

  • Paul Sizemore 4:16 pm on December 25, 2011 Permalink
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    Customer Retention Program: A starting place 

    Flash was in it’s infancy, and here we, at Finish Line, were applying it to customer rewards and retention. This as an early iteration of a user experience built for Rewards Members.

  • Paul Sizemore 4:03 pm on December 25, 2011 Permalink
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    Doughnuts at Finish Line: Driving the Team 

    It’s a little odd, working at Finish Line, and loving doughnuts. There is a corporate track, and my desk is fifty feet from the company gym. I walk by it to go to lunch. The development team here is obsessed with doughnuts, and to celebrate them even more, I created this animation. It was a big hit, but not as big as the cream filled. 

    Good food is always a good idea to motivate, but it can be a problem unless you keep the scarcity. We ended up having doughnuts every day, or it seemed. 

    Circa 2003

  • Paul Sizemore 6:40 am on December 25, 2011 Permalink
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    My Experience: Visualizing the Chronology 

    Some have called me a job hopper. Based on my history, thats a true statement. What I disagree with is the perspective and negative language used in the description. I’ve done a lot, much more than most people – I’ve worked in retail, publishing, ad revenue, healthcare. I’ve worked for four person startups, and Fortune 100 companies. I’ve looked to the new. A lot of people want to stay in college all their life because they love learning new things. I love learning new things, too. I think I would have stayed in college all my life, if we learned while building rather than learning alone.

     

    Below is a visualization of my work history, linked at http://vizualize.me/iGni5G6JGX#.TvbCmWAutJ8

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