Fourth Day at MOS
So I have completed my fourth day at MOS and I'm feeling pretty good about it. I look forward to work, learning a lot and the people in my department all seem really great. I know it's early, but it does seem like an ideal environment.
Today I participated in two meetings, one with the visual audio folks where we discussed some ideas for integrating video on the website. This department has a lot of archival and current videos on hand, so we're going to have more talks about potentially integrating it into the new main website in the not-too-distant future, but we have to think about how to do it intelligently and consider how it will be managed and how to best present it on the site. We also had a department meeting where everyone summarized where we are with projects which is a nice way of keeping a large group of people integrated and on the same page. There are some really cool projects going on with work for exhibits and other systems, interesting stuff.
I've just gotten my first exposure to grid-based CSS, which I had read about a long time ago and Bonnie's brother had mentioned it to me as well, but I never really took it seriously as something to learn because I was more focused on learning classic CSS. It's a challenge because it's a very different way of thinking than I've been exposed to, but it actually makes a lot of sense and I think in the long run it'll be a much more efficient way of writing stylesheets.
This is really only another post to kind of briefly summarize what I actually want to write about in more depth if I have time. So additional potential topics:
- command line vs. GUI interfaces
- permanent marker on paint
- source code control systems
- HTML5 in an IE8 world