{"id":1018,"date":"2017-08-25T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2025-01-05T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:31:54","slug":"the-bridges-of-hennepin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/the-bridges-of-hennepin-county\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bridges of Hennepin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the work I do for ADV Document Systems is for private companies and therefore not something I can share, but here&#8217;s an exception: <a href=\"https:\/\/edocs-public.dot.state.mn.us\/edocs_public\/Home\/\">Electronic Document Information GUI Search (eDIGS)<\/a>, a website that gives access to maps, permits and other public records at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. It is the successor to a site that was in place for many, many years, but which was not easily viewable on tablets or phones, and also a bit hard to support because it required users to have Java installed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when I tell people that I write both a) plays and b) code, they say that it must be tough to switch gears between the two. Yes\u00a0and no. I&#8217;ve definitely learned lessons in one mode that apply to the other. Coding projects taught me to expect there will be parts of any job that are just plain dull uninspiring <em>work<\/em>, and that this is not (necessarily) a sign that the project itself is dull and uninspiring. If I&#8217;m lucky, the process of trudging through the chore-ish parts may even give me ideas I can use for the fun imaginative problem-solving stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the work I do for ADV Document Systems is for private companies and therefore not something I can share, but here&#8217;s an exception: Electronic Document Information GUI Search (eDIGS), a website that gives access to maps, permits and other public records at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. It is the successor to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code","tag-adv","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/edigs.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}