November 2011
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Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
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Joe's Nerd Party: Fancy HTML Emails with Rails 3.1 →
joevandyk: Getting HTML emails to look nice is a pain. Most email clients can’t use stylesheets, so you have to embed all the styles inline in the HTML. You also have to write a separate plain-text version of the email. And popular email clients (Outlook, Windows Live Mail, etc) render html email using some…
Nov 19th
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Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
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August 2011
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Aug 29th
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Aug 29th
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“Quality isn’t something to be sacrificed. Move fast and break things, then move...”
– - Kyle Neath, Director of Design at GitHub. Original post: http://warpspire.com/posts/relentless-quality/
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July 2011
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May 2011
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May 5th
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“If you don’t know what you want, […] you end up with a lot you...”
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April 2011
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Apr 25th
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Apr 21st
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Font Squirrel's FontFace Generator
Spent ten minutes playing around with Font Squirrel’s FontFace Generator.  Uploaded The League of Moveable Type’s “Chunk” font and uploaded the results to Staticloud (free static site hosting): http://chunk-test.staticloud.com/. Looks promising. Looking forward to implementing this on an actual app and testing to see how it works/degrades across browsers and devices. ...
Apr 13th
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Apr 11th
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“The richest, happiest and most productive lives are characterized by the ability...”
– Work and Rest in a Startup
Apr 11th
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Apr 8th
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March 2011
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Mar 31st
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“Don’t give your customers what they ask for; give them what they want.”
Mar 31st
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Mar 30th
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Mar 30th
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Smart Google Calendar Textbox
Google Calendar continues to impress me. While creating a new event, adding the time w/ time zone in the event description field will save it in the time slot of your time zone (based off of your settings). Eg. “3:55PM EST” results in “12:55PM” on my PST time zone calendar. Google understands the common confusion people have when scheduling events in different time zones...
Mar 30th
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Mar 29th
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The Importance of Microcopy
I spent a couple minutes wondering why someone had closed my Hockey Team’s Facebook group. It turns out that “Closed” actually means that only members of the group can only see posts. Makes me wonder why Facebook choose to use “Closed Group” over “Private Group”? Joshua Porter has an excellent article on Writing Microcopy.
Mar 29th
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