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Several accounts paid off

Posted by Michael, 02 November 2008 -

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Personal Finance

Last month we successfully paid off our Amazon account, JC Penney, and Ann Taylor cards. This month we just paid off one of our two Lowes accounts. That's about $1400 of debt removed in two months time. Next month we're going to see if we can pay off Best Buy, about another $800-900 of debt.

So far, the plan is working pretty well. ...

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Getting out of debt - the beginning

Posted by Michael, 13 October 2008 -

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Personal Finance

OK, so this is the first entry in my blog for this new Personal Finance category. The idea behind this grew out of a discussion Nichole and I had after work on Friday night.

She and I, like many Americans, are pretty deeply in dept. We each have student loans for our educations; she has about $90,000 and I have something like $46,000. She has...

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Profile Fields

Posted by Michael, 09 September 2008 -

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CSC Development

As the Profile pages are getting all the work right now (and rightly so!), the question has come up as to how to manage who can view what profile information. The goal is relatively simple: Staff can view everything, Clients can view everything on their own profiles that aren't designated Staff-only, Clients can only view items on others'...

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Version 0.3.0 installed on test site

Posted by Michael, 05 September 2008 -

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CSC Development

Just posting this to let you know I have installed version 0.3.0 of the CSC up on the Testing grounds. New in this version is the first attempts at the new style of profile page I'm going for, which is a 3-tabbed profile page for staff and the profile owner, and 1-tab (of the public profile) for everyone else. I have also consolidated some of my...

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How do you define 'staff'?

Posted by Michael, 01 September 2008 -

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CSC Development

Continuing with our theme earlier of Classifications, I'd like to try and simplify this concept. What I'd like to do is to try and come up with a concise way of saying "you are staff" or "you are not staff". I want to run a few...

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