Joe Banks | Cleveland, Ohio - Work, Resume, Fatherhood, Web Tools, Zazen, Archives.

Most recently, the biggest time saver for my daily routine has been to move my personal and freelance email domains to Google's Gmail, part of the Google Apps package (from my current hosting account, Dreamhost, who actually encourages you to use Gmail to handle your email), specifically using the IMAP ... Read More Tags: email, gmail, google, imap, spam, Thunderbird

Recent new work on the ICNS Conference led to Publications Chair responsibilities creating the 2008 ICNS Conference poster (pictured above) and the new ICNS Conference web site. Said conference was originally a NASA-organized event, but since 2007, has become co-sponsored by the IEEE AESS and AIAA DATC. My work ... Read More Tags: Design, launch, Portfolio, Work

In a frenzy of tinkering glee, I have re-launched the Banks Family website, which now uses the current versions of open-source Wordpress (web-based publishing platform) and Gallery2 (web-based photo album organizer), and integrated with the WPG2 Wordpress plug-in (embeds Gallery2 within Wordpress to share photos, videos and other media into ... Read More Tags: Apple, Blogger, family, Flickr, Gallery, iLife, launch, Picasa, Wordpress, WPG2

In order to document our work with implementing and evaluating the open-source Wordpress content management system for NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) websites, fellow NASA contractor Josh Glemza and I launched the GRC Wordpress Users Guide website. With our years of experience dealing with the life cycle of NASA GRC websites, ... Read More Tags: launch, NASA, Wordpress