The past few weeks working at Time Inc. Interactive have been busy, but enjoyable nonetheless. In addition to building JavaScript functionality for a new site and fixing bugs Health.com , I’ve been working on a mash-up of the Google Maps API and Twitter, with great success. Unfortunately, the mash-up, in its newest version, isn’t open to the public, but I’ll be making a public version in a few days.
Actually, I hope to be adding to my portfolio shortly. By August or September, I’ll be able to link to my current work on a new site, but before that I’ll be adding my work on Health.com and whatever prototypes I build. They’ll all be listed under Time Inc. in my portfolio.
Finally, my use of the Apache module mod_rewrite is mostly complete on my site. What mod_rewrite basically does is redirects a URL such as http://mikepinkowish.com/journal_view/29/ to a PHP script like http://mikepinkowish.com/journal_view/29/. Why do this? Just from a SEO point-of-view http://mikepinkowish.com/journal_view/29/ is much friendlier to search engines than http://mikepinkowish.com/journal_view.php?id=29. That in itself is enough for most people to make use of mod_rewrite. There are also other reasons from easier URL readability to enhanced security that make mod_rewrite popular in addition to the fact that it’s really simple to set up.
Before I go, I think I should mention that I’m working on two very cool projects right now that I can’t talk about now, but in a few months time will be all the rave.
-Mike
