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One Idea

At our bi-annual training recently our boss challenged us to come up with one good idea every day.

Of course, this immediately became a joke around the office. By 8:05AM I'd be yelling out, "I've had my idea! I'm going home!"

But it got me thinking.

There is nothing about what I do that is static. Every single day I am challenged to learn a slew of new information just to keep up with the pace of technology. What if I documented those ideas? What would it look like after a month? A year?

oneidía - every day I will post one idea.

Or maybe, more accurately, What I Learned Today.

Most of the content will be based off solutions I find on other's websites and will be cited appropriately, but it may prove an interesting read for those of you interested in GIS, programming, the web and databases.

This is idea 1.

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