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You've stumbled on my personal website. Feel free to browse around.
My work is on shift8solutions an IT organization that I created to provide easy to use and inexpensive tools to small business owners.
My blog is called just an asterisk and it is about making technology simple.
I post interesting links to my twitter account @justansterisk when I want to share.
When I'm not doing those things, I design a website or two (for example) and design my own t-shirts.
I'll put examples of my current projects in posts, so check back from time to time.
If you want to contact me, you can email: ab@alexbaker.me or ab@justanasterisk.com
I'm happy to discuss both new projects and past work, so please feel free to reach out.
~ab
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- Spotify – an incredible music experience.
- A lazy post – Google Translate Rocks
- My hidden productivity data
- Adblock – Clean Browsing Bliss
- Technology for new parents
- Ditching Cable… Addendum (for C.)
- Ditching Cable: a new adventure
- An example of feature finding fun…
- Should I buy an iPad? A lazy response while I start writing again…
Author Archives: ab
shift8solutions.com -> Check. It. Out.
For a while now, I’ve been working on a warehouse management system (WMS) on my business website shift8solutions.com. As I’m finally done, I thought I’d share the good news with those who visit this site. Please take a look at … Continue reading
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SAPeedie… for free
I’ve decided to give away my portable SAPeedie app for SAP testing. It’s a simple enough windows app, but below is the extract from the help file. I haven’t spent much time on it recently, so please be aware that … Continue reading
Mapping (made-up) Shipping Data
I’m reading Ben Fry’s book Visualizing Data and having some serious fun with mapping. I invented some shipping data (from my home state of Ohio to the other 50) and then put it on a map of the US using some … Continue reading
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Spotify control script for AHK
I found it rather annoying to reopen Spotify whenever I wanted to change tracks or increase the volume… Using Autohotkey, it’s no longer a problem (I found some great examples via Google). Enjoy ~ab ; ; Spotify volume and track … Continue reading
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Stock widget…
I’ve been thinking a lot about dashboards recently and wanted to use processing to create a “stock tool” – something to grab real-time stock data for a company and display it in an interesting way. Take a look here
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New processing project: Clock
Another Processing project – this one is kinda fun. It’s a clock, created with code and some basic shapes. I think the coolest part is that I used “processing.js”, a library that renders the result in an HTML5 format – … Continue reading
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Arc_flowers
This applet uses random numbers (within some boundaries) to create the stems and petals. If you press any key while it runs, it will stop. Each time will be different, so enjoy! Take a look at the java applet herehtml5 … Continue reading
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