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May so far

May 11th, 2013 by Cat

I’m running again.
I used to run regularly – a few miles after work each day – which made it a great stress reliever after a long day at work. A couple years ago, I lost the habit (I blame wedding planning), and I’ve been struggling to get back into it. Getting back into running after not doing it for months is so harddddd. I’m easing into it by running 2-3 times a week, 1.2mi (1.9km) each time. I’ll gradually increase the frequency and distance.

The cosplay to-do list is working.
A little too well actually. It’s motivated me again, and I’m staying up late working on my cosplays… which then causes me to oversleep and get into work later than usual. Oops. It’s sad when coworkers send an email saying they’ll be a bit late, yet I show up after them anyway. (Fortunately, we have flexible schedules, so no one cares if I get in later.)

You know what feels good though? Wearing completed parts of a costume you made. It’s so satisfying to look in the mirror with the costume on and think, hell yeah, I made this. I can’t wait to put it on when it’s fully completed :)

Click the thumbnails to see larger images! I’ve finished both jackets and am working on the bottom parts of the costumes now.

I forgot school is almost over.
Time passes differently when you’re out of school. Months don’t mean as much to me, so when May came around… it didn’t occur to me that most college students here are about to start summer break. Which means… interns! I didn’t realize our interns were starting so soon! I’m getting two, and one already started this week. I uh… totally wasn’t prepared, but I got him started on a few things at least. Hopefully… I will be more prepared when the second one starts ^^;;

Anyway! This month is mostly filled with cosplay progress. I have a bad habit of being the most productive right before an Anime convention. I need to finish both of these before the end of this month, which is when A-kon is. Follow my instagram or tumblr if you want to see in-progress pictures :)

Mobile project

April 22nd, 2013 by Cat

Well, I’ve mentioned my team winning in our company hack-a-thon a couple times now. Now that our project has been released, I think it’s about time I talked about it since people were curious :) Including me, there were 3 people on the team, and there’s been something that we’ve have been wanting to do for a while: make our community mobile friendly.

Some background: our company makes an IT software (inventory, help desk, etc) and an IT community. While the software has a mobile app, the community had no mobile-friendly view, and it really needed one. Trying to browse it on any phone was a frustrating experience.

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The community has (I think) seven teams currently working on it, and every team maintains multiple features. This presents 2 problems:

1. The community is huge, and no team had time to make the entire thing mobile friendly.
2. Maintenance – how do we make sure each team maintains the mobile version of their feature?

Long story short: we made a mobile-friendly view for the community, which should be easy to maintain. If you’re interested in learning more details, read below the cut! If you just want to check it out, view here on a smartphone.

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What happens in Vegas…

May 15th, 2012 by Cat

I’m back! I just spent the past week (Mon-Sun) in Las Vegas. Believe it or not, it was for work. I work at a company that has a free IT software and community, so we had a booth at Interop (an IT expo). I figured I should also have some fun away from work, so my husband flew in after the expo, and we stayed 2 extra days :)

By the way, this entry is kind of long and filled with photos, especially the food part!

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