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MBA 564 – Personal Leadership Plan

August 31st, 2009 No comments

Academic Integrity Statement

“This assignment is my own work. Any assistance I received in its preparation is acknowledged within the assignment in accordance with academic practice. If I used data, ideas, words, diagrams, pictures, or other information from any source, I have cited the source(s). I understand that copying text word for word from other sources without placing it in quotation marks is considered plagiarism and not acceptable even if I cite the source where the material was copied from. I certify that this assignment was prepared specifically for this class and has not been submitted, in whole or in part, to any other class at Walsh College or elsewhere.”

Jeff Pipas

Below is my podcast for MBA 564 – Project Leadership and Management

MBA564.mp3

Sources:

Alessandra, Dr. Tony (2009). The Platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment. Retrieved on August 29, 2009 from http://www.assessmentsnow.com/

Ferraro, Jack (2008). The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership. Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group.

Mersino, Anthony (2007). Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers: The People Skills You Need to Achieve Outstanding Results. New York City, NY: AMACOM.

Music By Subject 2 Change – Copyright 2001. Used with permission.

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Where Are They Now?

August 23rd, 2009 No comments

Found this gem of an album in iTunes on an old machine of mine.  I’m posting it here for archival purposes so when the time comes to either humiliate, or boast, I’ve got somewhere to direct people.  Either way, it’s good to remember where this came from, and the fun we had making it. Kinda miss it.  Anyways, for your listening or comedic pleasure:

Subject 2 Change: Beyond Our Control

01 All This Time.mp3 02 Saved Me Trying.mp3 03 Help Me Through.mp3 04 Hold On.mp3 05 Waste.mp3 06 Stay With Me.mp3 07 Storybook Tales.mp3 08 Dream.mp3 09 In The End.mp3 10 Boonoover Stoory.mp3

Notable times during this album:

1 – All This Time: Opening track of our very first album as a band – and Tom swears twice in the first 3 minutes.

2 – The Gregorian Chant at the end of Hold On – followed by Tom’s wonderful introduction to Waste

3 – The superior drumming skills of Mark on a Boonoover fill (around 3:43)

If you find more – leave some comments.

Symfony and ExtJS Grid Search

August 4th, 2009 1 comment

I’ve been working on several projects that have utilized an ExtJS grid using the search plugin, with a Symfony backend.  One of the features of the grid search plugin is that it allows the user to search across several fields (columns) all at once.  Below is a snippet of code I found very useful in my actions when working with the grid search plugin, and symfony.

$column = AdvertisementPeer::translateFieldName(sfInflector::camelize(strtolower($field)), BasePeer::TYPE_PHPNAME, BasePeer::TYPE_COLNAME);
if($request->getParameter('query') != ""){
    array_push($crit_array, $c->getNewCriterion($column,"%".$request->getParameter('query')."%",Criteria::LIKE));
}

The code in the case takes a field string (given to us by a POST to the server from the search plugin), maps it to the peer class using [cci_php] sfInflector::camelize()[/cci_php] for the domain object we’re searching on, and then adds a new criteria search for that item to a query.  The work horse of this snippet is the sfInflector class.  Pretty useful class.  That, and it saves you from having to write [cci_php]Peer::COLUMN_NAMES[/cci_php] out all the time.

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