jDowdle.com » Work http://jdowdle.com/wp Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:10:08 +0000 en hourly 1 My New Job at Interfolio Inc. http://jdowdle.com/wp/2009/05/new-job-at-interfolio-inc/ http://jdowdle.com/wp/2009/05/new-job-at-interfolio-inc/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 19:22:59 +0000 Jon Dowdle http://jdowdle.com/wp/?p=290 Two weeks ago I posted to Twitter that Emily and I would be moving to Washington, D.C.  I wanted to fill in the blanks for anyone that hasn't heard the whole story.

Around mid-November, I applied for a job after seeing a post on Sam Farmer's blog. Long story short, one phone interview, one trip to D.C. and four months later, I formally accepted a position with the Interfolio team. I've now officially started in my new position and thought a blog post was deserving.

As far as time lines, I will be working from home for the rest of May and we're moving during the first week of June. We're both excited for the great opportunities that this move presents to us.

Also, I'd like to say thank you to the team that I left at Mojo Interactive. If you're looking for a Coldfusion job in the Orlando area, send me your resume and I'll pass it to the right person at Mojo Interactive.

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I accomplished this by creating two elements (SELECT & INPUT) and then switching the elements visibility properties.

<script type="text/javascript" >
function showOther(id, id2){
  if(id.options[id.selectedIndex].label == "Other"){
   id.style.visibility = "hidden";
   id2.style.visibility = "visible";
  }
}
</script>
<select id="sel1" onChange="showOther(sel1, inp1)"
style="position:absolute; left:10; top:10;" >
  <option value="0" label=""></option>
  <option value="1" label="Choice1">Choice1</option>
  <option value="2" label="Choice2">Choice2</option>
  <option value="3" label="Other">Other</option>
</select>
<input type="text" id="inp1" style="visibility='hidden'"
style="position:absolute; left:10; top:10;" />

To see it in action go here

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To read more about our particular system ...
CMHC...
When I first interviewed for my current job, I was told that I would be dealing with CMHC very often. As anyone would do, I decided to inquire as to what exactly this product was. So here's the skinny in case there are any other possible people alive that would want to know this information. CMHC is a computerized system written a while ago ( `80's ). The acronym stands for Clinical and Mental Health C? Not quite sure as to what the C means and as far as I can tell the CMH part is never really defined anywhere (and I don't feel like hunting it down in the horrible documentation). CMHC was bought by another company who also dealt primarily with the mental health sector. This company had another product and now supports both systems. More can possibly be found on their website at www.ntst.com. More information on CMHC might be able to be found on the national user groups website http://www.nugmis.org/.

The OS
From what I can tell, CMHC only runs on 2 OS's. SCO Unix and AIX by IBM. Currently we are running AIX 4.3 which looks like it was released in Oct. 1997. I don't know if we plan on upgrading the OS. Doing the CMHC installs is pretty big pain already.

The Problems
The tape drive installation wasn't a big issue. The more serious issue came when we rebooted the server and heard some strange noises. Turns out the motor in a relatively new drive (not older than a month) had gone bad. So we pulled it out and swapped in a replacement drive. Rebooted and then found out that the new tape drive could only read tapes (so much for that nights backup).

And that wraps up the story of that installation. Thinking on it now, I hope that our current systems have a little more foresight than the systems of yesterday, or else the future is doomed.

-J

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I have done some sample logos but I can't seem to find a color scheme that I like. I wanted a basic layout (with some kind of graphics) to be done by Wednesday...yes...the Wednesday that happened yesterday. The more I think about it the more I think I might just whip up a nice textual site and come back with the graphics.

I also plan on looking into (and writing on) automating a process I've been having to wake up and do every other week at 5am. Basically compressing TISAM files on the system we use at work.

Until later

-J

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