What I’ve been doing the last week

Aaron — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:40:00 +0000

Al-Iman Mosque, Steinway St.

I’ve also spent some time getting to know my neighborhood a little better. I recently discovered a book at work about Queens and the people that have lived their lives here- I was especially attracted to the chapters about people in Little Egypt in the neighborhood where I live. It’s always seemed such a peaceful neighborhood with a diversity of people from all walks of life and nationalities. I was unaware of the violence that had occurred in the wake of the September 11th attacks and how it had affected business owners and residents. I talked more about it in the ASHP Now and Then Blog here, and am now wondering if perhaps Little Egypt and the Steinway BID would make for an interesting thesis project.

And finally, it is with great satisfaction I am able to say that we launched the new ASHP website at work. It was quite a challenge pulling all of the pieces together. I am very happy with the way I was able to use wordpress as a CMS to facilitate easier management of the websites by staff and still being able to faithfully implement the design that was created by the design team. It was a great feeling being able to have launched a website of this scale as the only programmer involved on the project. If there was anything I would have done different a second time around, I would have implemented more thorough server side handling of redirects and error pages for the nearly a thousand .html pages that were a part of their old site; however, overall, I think the site is a great accomplishment for myself and the organization. More information on other projects I’ve worked on is available on my Portfolio page.

Aaron J. Knoll » Astoria

What I’ve been doing the last week