{"id":153,"date":"2012-03-19T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.small-improvements.com\/2012\/03\/19\/customer-care-and-support-specialist-part-time\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T18:49:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T18:49:05","slug":"status-update-https-ratings-and-database-upgrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.small-improvements.com\/blog\/status-update-https-ratings-and-database-upgrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Status update: Sub-ratings in performance reviews, https, and database upgrade completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been busy, and as you can see on the changelog, there are a few new entries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New https certificate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have added proper HTTPS support: You can now at last access Small Improvements at https:\/\/www.small-improvements.com, and we have a nice &#8220;extended validation&#8221; certificate, making your browser bar go green. Neat. We will be enforcing https\u00a0 from May or so, so that all communication will be automatically secure, not just optionally.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sub-ratings in performance reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although we don&#8217;t believe that adding many ratings makes performance reviews any better, and although the crucial part is the self-reflection and the feedback you get from your manager, it can be useful to be able to rate a topic on a scale from x to y. And after the umpteenth client inquired about it, we had enough of all the questions and explaining, and simply coded it. And it turned out quite neat too:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.small-improvements.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/actual-review-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.small-improvements.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/actual-review-1.jpg?w=468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the configuration screen looks like: Simple, yet effective. You find it in the review cycle configuration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.small-improvements.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dropdown-definition-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.small-improvements.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dropdown-definition-1.jpg?w=357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Database upgrade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s a totally internal change, but the good news is there will be a lot less maintenance downtimes in our data center. In fact, we did the upgrade on the weekend, just ahead of a 2-hour-maintenance-downtime on Tuesday. Which won&#8217;t affect us anymore thanks to the change. Good timing!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today!<\/p>\n<p>Ah, and in case you happen to know anyone who&#8217;d like to work part time on our customer care team, do let us know! Here&#8217;s the job ad:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Customer care and support specialist, part time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.small-improvements.com\/careers\/customer-care-and-tech-support--part-time-job\">Customer care and support specialist, part time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been busy, and as you can see on the changelog, there are a few new entries. New https certificate We have added proper HTTPS support: You can now at last access Small Improvements at https:\/\/www.small-improvements.com, and we have a nice &#8220;extended validation&#8221; certificate, making your browser bar go green. Neat. 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