Category: Around the Office
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Happy holidays
Things have slowed down a little in the office over the past few days, not so many urgent emails to deal with but we can see that lots of you are getting busy with your books. Even today on Christmas Eve lots of people are beavering away uploading photos and…
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Christmas in the office
Well I have had some Christmas lights up on my monitors for a couple of days now but today Christmas really arrived in the form of Ewa form our lovely printers. She came bearing a huge pile of boxes tied up with ribbon and full of yummy goodies and Christmas…
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Another great yearbook blog
There’s a Canadian yearbook company that also keep a blog about yearbooks which seems well worth a read: www.yearbookpublishingandprinting.com
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Automated backups
After far too much time and effort, Jake and I have managed to make an automated backup system for the AllYearbooks office. Our main network shared drive will (hopefully) now be backed up on a daily basis to two portable 2.5in SATA hard drives, both which will be stored off-site.…
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My new awesome development desktop
Oh yes, it seems like excitement in the form of new hardware has been put into my blessed hands this fine morn’. I have now caught up with Jake and have the same configuration: three spiffy 19-inch TFT monitors with the laptop to the side (mine’s on the left side…
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Getting people involved and getting members into the book
We’ve noticed that a lot of people are setting up a new yearbook online, with themselves as editor, and even getting together the form groupings for the members, but not actually getting members to sign up for the book. Obviously it’s still early in the year, but the sooner members…
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Spam vs Blog, Blog beats Spam – Please read our Blog
There’s a bit of a debate going on in the office just at the moment – or at least in the non R&D part of the office – about the best way for us to make sure people are getting on ok when we haven’t heard from them for a…
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Office life
Today we have been catching up with clients and finding out how their books are coming along, it is always nice when people get organised early. The weeks before results days are always hectic! David and I have also been having a mammoth game of truth or dare jenga! So…
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Geekery
Really boys, this is getting to be a bit of a geeky blog! But I do agree with being called a non geeky colleague, especially as I have just spent 10 mins trying to remember my password! I’m only non geeky in a coding type way tho, I can still…
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My work space
This is my desk. I have lots of monitors! They’re all connected to my laptop (far right) which is showing a picture of my baby Benjamin in the photo. The left screen is where I edit all the code that makes AllYearbooks work, the middle one usually has a web…
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