No Open Blockers

When I started this site, it was meant as a trial of using a blog to communicate with my students. Around the same time I had been trying to maintain a separate work blog. That was too much to handle and I think there is a cross over audience between them, so the two kinda merged into one. This site won since I’m hosting it on my web server and not surprisingly, having full access to the server is better than limited access.

The whole idea of “Professor Jay’s Notebook” was partially due to the school focus and partially due to the fact that I wanted to use a really sweet notebook-style theme I found. However, I have a short attention span and tend to change the theme every 6 months or so. And to be honest, I was getting kind of tired of the whole “Professor Jay” moniker.

So, I’ve been slowly migrating this site over to a new domain: noopenblockers.com. I set up automatic redirects so notebook.novasurv.com will still work, just automatically kick you over to here. I’ll leave it that way for a while, but to anyone using the RSS feed, be sure to update the link.

Why No Open Blockers? It came from a previous project as we were trying to ship the 2.0 release. We had progressed past the stage of “It actually compiled? Ship it.” to having a list of prioritized bugs. The next stage of just wanting to be done had migrated to “No open blockers? Ship it.” (where blocker was our highest priority for bugs). I liked the phrase and ran with it.