CNY Parade in Flushing

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Glazed Snow

New York has been covered by snow since Christmas. There were piles varying from 2-5ft from 2 large snowstorms. Earlier this week, the piles were glazed over by an icestorm, leaving a nice transparent layer over the white snow. It looks especially nice on the untouched, natural piles. I took some pictures by the park on the way to work yesterday and then some more today around the house:

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Comprehensive Physiology

Comprehensive Physiology is the first complete website I worked on that launched since my new position. While the front end code isn't anything complex, working on this project really gave me a good overview of the anatomy of most of Wiley's websites. My contribution to this site includes graphics conversion, heavy CSS and light JSP work.

Click here to visit Comprehensive Physiology

Frommer's Manila

Many years ago, Frommer's had a full Philippines guide. Then it dropped out of popularity and eventually off the website as well. But it made a return to the site with the last 2010 update as they added Manila to Southeast Asia. Philippines has grown a lot since the last time it was on Frommer's, so the lists of hotels, restaurants, attractions, nightlife and shops are completely different.

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WileyPLUS Course Finder

This was one of the first challenging projects I had in my new job because it involved a lot of dynamic elements on each page and it was a new product. The backend was handled by a team of programmers in our Russian office. I took care of the look and feel as well as the JQuery rollover functionality you see after you search for an educational institution. I originally has everything in straight JavaScript, but redid a lot of it with JQuery that I learned on a different project/site.

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Life Underground

I always wanted to take pictures of Life Underground by Tom Otterness. It's an installation sculpture series created in 2002 for the 14th Street and 8th Avenue station. I finally had a camera with me and just missed the train, so I had a few minutes to capture some of Otterness' playful characters.

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Related: Tom Otterness Studio, Wikipedia, Life Underground

Wiley Mobile Apps

The Wiley Mobile Apps page was updated with a number of new iPhone applications this week.

• Wiley Newsletter Mobile Reader
• CompTIA A+ Flashcards from Sybex
• Accounting Flashcards and Self-Tests
• Contemporary Business
• Exploring Management

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Puerto Rico 2009 DVD Cover

October 2010 (10.7" x 7.2") - Since my parents went by themselves to Puerto Rico, the number of shots were limited. Naturally, I wanted a photo of both of them for the cover and there weren't many to choose from. On top of that, whenever a stranger uses their camera, it never comes out good. So I made the most of the one I picked. It's a little grainy, but had the right colors. The red from my Mom's shirt was reflected across the rest of the cover as the accent. The back cover is a nice landscape shot of El Morrow. The blank sky allowed for the 2 thumbnails and chapter menu.

Squirrel for Breakfast

Frommer's -> Wiley

This is just a note that I changed all items previously labeled as "Frommer's" to Wiley. I started a new position at Wiley's Web Publishing Technology group, so I'll be working on several of the company's websites, including Frommers.com. Here are a couple of updates so far:

Wiley.com Logos
The logo pages on Wiley.com were skinned with an interface designed a few years ago, but their content areas were left in a much older, 800x600 design. I rebuilt the pages as practice in the CMS we have in place. So now all the page are the full width of the content area.
- Logos for Print
- Divisional Logos

Frommers.biz Press Release
These come in every couple of months or so, but it was kind of nice to get one on the week I started the new job because it was still Frommer's in some way. To read about our partnership with AARP, click here.

August Rheumatologist
The Rheumatologist is a monthly online magazine that we post on the website for download and yet another Wiley owned site that I never knew about. Click here for August's issue.

Coming Soon
I can't post any direct links to some of the larger projects yet, but I'll be working on Pfeiffer, Current Protocols, Comprehensive Physiology and Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.