https://intellitect.github.io/Quoteboard/
A view of all IntelliTect Yammer posts that container the hashtag "#quoteboard".
On one fine Monday in September, resident senior software engineer, Kevin Bost, posted the following on IntelliTect's Yammer:
Someone needs to do something with this. I am not sure what, but it needs a large font.
https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/search.json?search=%23quoteboard
- Kevin
This being a list of all the Yammer posts that used the popular IntelliTect hashtag, "#quoteboard".
This post was largely ignored until several weeks later when another IntelliTect engineer, Alden Bansemer, posted a comment asking for a UI version of the API endpoint's JSON payload:
Wait where is the UI friendly version of this? I'd like to see some of these quotes listed out.
- Alden
Joseph Riddle, hearing this cry into the void and looking for ways to procrastinate on vastly more important work, created a "slick" UI in approximately 34 minutes (we timed it).
The live version of this project is running on GitHub Pages at https://intellitect.github.io/Quoteboard/. You will need to authenticate with a valid IntelliTect Azure AD account.