Popeye is one of my top 10 greatest movies ever made. It’s the attention the detail and subtlety that makes it so good. There are deep emotional and intellectual subjects tackled even though the movie has a simple root. From the role of taxes in a society to poverty to the simple emotional need to…
I have an addiction to answering questions. I can’t stop myself. I want to (have to) help. I used to use Experts-Exchange.com alot. However, they have no UX section and once I stopped using jQuery, I didn’t find it that compelling. I tried StackOverflow, but I got locked out of my account and can’t get…
I went through more of my spam folder and found more false positives. I have a suggestion that I think will help. I think the filters need an update. Specifically, I am suggesting that you allow users to make a custom filter like this: If it is called spam by GMail, AND It contains any…
I work up thinking it was an hour ago, and missed the train to San Francisco, so it looks like I will miss the last 3 hours of the conference. Still, my opinion of the Business of Software conference is that it is the best conference I have ever attended. Not that I have been…
This morning, I opened up my email and had a strange experience. No email. Really? None? So just on a lark, I checked the spam folder. Mine was full of 3600 messages. So I started looking through. Before too long, I had 10 false positives. Ack! No wonder I think GMail does a great job…
I upgraded to Firefox 3.6 just to try it out. In Windows 7, it did this subtle thing which completely annoys me and forced me to uninstall. In earlier versions, the window at the bottom worked properly. Now, it creates this multiple window model in the bar. When I CLICK on the Firefox icon, I…
I loved Ryan Carson‘s presentation. Awesome content, and wonderful use of music and video. I loved it. Here is a summary of the lessons he taught us. These are 8 things to do to have a remarkable company. Be Passionate Remind your team that it matters Be Opinionated Blog about it Love your customers Physically…
Business of Software, Day 1 I am on CalTrain reflecting on Day One of the Business of Software 2009 conference. No wifi on CalTrain. Lame, but not the fault of the conference. The day started off with a surprisingly yummy eggs, sausage, ham and fixins breakfast. I gobbled up the food and got my badge. …
Dharmesh Shah of Hubspot just pointed us to this great free tool to analyze your website called Website Grader. Check it out. I found it fascinating for commadot.com. The part I liked best was the little “working on it” spinner.
I don’t use Twitter all that much. However, since I am at the Business of Software conference, I decided to participate. The hashtag is #BoS2009. At first it was interesting, although alot of the content was mundane. It was just repeating what the person said. I downloaded TweetDeck to try it in a different context.…
The CEO of Adchemy just asked me to reach out about an open position for web developer. Requirements: HTML, CSS, jQuery. The best situation is onsite (San Mateo, CA), but it’s possible for some remote contract work. You MUST have a website. No website; then don’t bother applying. I am going to view source. These…
For the last few weeks I have been using Balsamiq. So far, I am pretty happy and learning more about it each day. Today, I saw a new tool that is taking the same general approach. It’s called Mockingbird. I want to give the tool the benefit of the doubt. Right now, it only has…
At Adchemy, we have a spot open for a UX Designer. The team is 3 people right now and we are kicking ass. I haven’t been this excited about design in a long time. (And I am usually pretty pumped about it). Here are the values of the company and how they are used in…
Another step in my never-ending adventures against comment spammers. I have been using NoSpamNX for quite some time with very good success. Well, at least I didnt hear about someone failing to comment. However, in the past few days, someone on the spammer side, figured out what NoSpamNX is doing. Now I have a slew…