Some of you have been around web design long enough to remember the 4Ds (Discover, Plan, Design/Develop, and Deploy) that were so popular in agency marketing materials in the late 90s. At the time, I once asked my CEO about them (he wrote the marketing copy) “Well, we don’t do them on all the projects. …
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It’s kinda like MacroMyopia
It’s kinda like “MacroMyopia” – this tendency to underestimate that tomorrow is a new day, and overestimate that right now (while damn good) has a few significant, hard to solve problems. I think there was even a musical about this….set in the Great Depression.
Grammar Reminder: I.E. or E.G. ?
i.e. = “that is” (Latin: “id est”) e.g. = “for example” (Latin: “exempli gratia”)
I turned my notecards upside down
I turned my notecards upside down – grabbing from ‘bottom’, each task is a new surprise!
I was just reminded of something Omar at Surly Brewing told me during a podcast
I was just reminded of something Omar at Surly Brewing told me during our podcast (22 minutes in): “It’s not ‘are they drinking 1 beer’, but ‘are they drinking two’?. It’s easy to sell someone 1 beer.”
Something Keeps Burning
Lots of chatter about the usefulness and relevance of FeedBurner since the Google acquisition 1. Chris Baskind formalizes it by updating the reasons not to use Feedburner to cache your feeds. “FeedBurner is showing its age. While Google has ignored its new baby, technology has been steaming ahead.” – Chris Baskind Baskind’s analysis is more …
“What did you spend?” Heh. ;)
“What did you spend?” Heh. 😉
Putting the ‘mium’ in ‘Freemium’
For the past year, Cullect has been live wrapped in a subscription model based this “freemium” model I drew up back in the middle of 2006. For Cullect, the benefit of this model have been obvious: even with a small number of paying customers – the servers are being paid for from subscription payments. For …
I started building up new project today, one of the 2 initial revenue generating
I started building up new project today, one of the 2 initial revenue generating projects on my 2009 list. While it’s a way from launching, much of the heavy lifting was completed today. Conceptually, I’ve been using a proof-of-concept of this project for a couple years now. Oh, and I spent waaaay to long looking …
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all this work on command line Ruby apps has got me happily avoiding /views
All this work on command line Ruby apps has got me happily avoiding /views in this new Rails app. Ironic, considering when I first started writing in Ruby, the lack of presentation was my biggest mental hurdle.