August 2012
11 posts
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The Art Of Staying Up To Date →
An important part of our job is staying up to date. Technologies don’t really change that fast — HTML5 and CSS3 take a long time to be specified and implemented. But the ideas surrounding these technologies and the things we can do with them are constantly evolving, and hundreds of blog posts and articles are published every day. There’s no way you can read all of those but you’ll still have to...
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Rickshaw.js →
Rickshaw is a JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time series graphs.
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Lorem Ipsum Dummy text is for dummies. Stop... →
Picture this: a beautiful design concept with a clear visual hierarchy and perfectly intuitive navigation. Everything looks great, and you’re congratulating yourself already on the most excellent partnership that you’ve developed with your designers. But as you begin to read the content on the page, you realize something’s off: It’s all dummy text! And as a client, this should throw up a red...
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Made to Measure →
As speakers like Brad Frost and Karen McGrane have maintained for some time, the future CMS wants to treat content like water, to be poured into different containers.
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Vim: On sharpening the saw →
Vim users sit somewhere on a spectrum, based on how much they customize their editor. At one end of the spectrum, there are those who use Vim with no customizations whatsoever. At the other end are those who customize Vim to the point where it barely resembles the stock install.
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Portrait of Matt Mullenweg →
How WordPress made Matt Mullenweg a multimillionaire, and the art of staying true to your roots.
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“Three years ago, I sold my startup because I was an idiot”
– Peter Cooper on how he sold Feed Digest and struggling to be young entrepreneur.
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Product Management for the Web →
Whether we prototype, write, design, develop, or test as part of building the web, we’re creating something hundreds, thousands, or maybe even millions of people will use. But how do we know that we’re creating the right enhancements for the web, at the right time, and for the right customers? Because our client or boss asked us to? And how do they know?
Enter product management for the web.
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Mobile User Interfaces on Pinterest →
Superb Pinterest gallery of mobile designs and concepts.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the WordPress Loop →
The Loop is incredibly foundational to WordPress. It’s the first (and possibly the easiest) thing that most new themers want to try modifying… and you can get incredibly creative with it once you know the basics. Today, we’re going to lay a foundation for everyone who’s new to the loop or has ever wanted to know a little bit more about exactly how it works.
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Lessons learned and/or reinforced while at...
Know your customer You can’t build inspiring products nor deliver compelling messages unless you know who you’re talking to.
Always have a plan (and a back-up plan) Things change quickly around here and your plans have to change quickly as well.
Don’t take it personally This is business, and sometimes you have change direction to do what’s right for the business, no matter how personally...
