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Laura - May 26, 2012 9:37:16 am PDT #871 of 1416
Our wings are not tired.

This must be the place where I can toot my own horn! My company develops software and yet I have zero programming background. My education is accounting and my role in the business has been management and customer service. I am often in the middle man role of translating between the tech and non-tech people because I understand them both, somewhat.

Anyway, my priorities and Development priorities are often not aligned and I try and figure out work arounds. So this morning I tackled a problem that will eventually be solved in code, but I get pressure from end users to solve.

And with the help of Google and an understanding of our SQL tables I wrote a super complicated (for me) query that pulls info from a bunch of tables and gives me a report we really need. So, in your face smarty pants programmers! Keep being slow and I'll just do it myself.

Also, really expect to impress the co-workers so extra cool.

Thank you for listening to my bragging. Had to get it out somewhere!

sumi - May 26, 2012 9:40:38 am PDT #872 of 1416
Art Crawl!!!

Woo hoo, Laura! You go girl!

Scrappy - May 26, 2012 9:46:33 am PDT #873 of 1416
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Laura kicks SQL ass!

§ ita § - May 26, 2012 9:47:50 am PDT #874 of 1416
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, man, but if you do that, the developers will never help you on time again! They'll just fall back into their pit of Mass Effect 3, and that's the last you'll ever see of them...

Ginger - May 26, 2012 10:21:45 am PDT #875 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Toot that horn, Laura!

Keep being slow and I'll just do it myself.

That's their plan.

Laura - May 26, 2012 10:32:54 am PDT #876 of 1416
Our wings are not tired.

Indeed, ita and Ginger. This occurred to me too. So I won't bother to tell them and will leave the project on my wish list. From their padded cells cubicals they rarely have a clue what is happening with end users anyway. Ha!

Also, if they find out my SQL knowledge is growing they will never give me a quick query again.

amych - May 26, 2012 10:36:02 am PDT #877 of 1416
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Go Laura, with the self-empowerment and the SQL and the glayvin! t crawls back into pit of ME3

Ginger - Jun 02, 2012 2:53:56 pm PDT #878 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Can I get some feedback on this business card design? [link]

Also, is anyone using a Google voice number as a business number?

eta: zipped file [link]

NoiseDesign - Jun 02, 2012 2:56:25 pm PDT #879 of 1416
Our wings are not tired

I use a Google Voice number as my business number.

beekaytee - Jun 02, 2012 3:03:18 pm PDT #880 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant

Ginger, I've used Onebox for a dozen years and have been totally satisfied. It's an integrated messaging system...and offers much more than I ever use. It costs, but it is a minor deduction.

I love the business card design. It has texture and whimsy in an otherwise digital-drenched field. That says something wonderful about you and what you offer.

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