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Jan 17, 2008

When programmers leave their desk…

…and get politically involved, you wind up with this.

Mike | January 17, 2008 9:47 am
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  • 2008
    • January
      • Pagination examples and good practices
      • new keyboard
      • Account sign-in mistakes to avoid
      • When programmers leave their desk...
      • Feltron 2007 Annual Report
      • The CMS Myth
      • Lettering Grows in Brooklyn
      • Multitasking slows you down
      • The 2008 Bad Usability calendar is here!
    • February
      • What's your SEO score?
      • design or walmart
      • communication breakdown.
      • Tip: "Bookmark All Tabs" in Firefox for competitive audits
    • March
      • Interaction designers discuss the iPhone SDK
      • css and rollovers
      • Monitoring apache with god
      • Apple's design process presented at SXSW
      • Coding for the mobile web
      • my new favorite firefox extension
      • Read this post in Safari 3.1
      • The Page Paradigm, a.k.a. "users don't care where they are in the website"
      • follow the pass
    • April
      • Outside, The First Massively Multiplayer Game
      • Further evidence that Apple is the new Microsoft.
      • i delivered a baby this morning.
      • How to be a UX team of one (and other presentations from the 2008 IA Summit)
      • flash projects
      • Review: Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails by Michael J. Mangino
      • mod_rails for Apache - the end of an era?
      • Managing 50+ blogs on nytimes.com
    • May
      • Everyone's an information architect on the new Facebook?
      • Processing.js
      • Colin Moock interviews Jim Corbett
      • Anatomy of a viral phenomenom
    • June
      • A brief overview of website optimization
      • The "tight collaboration" that created TimesPeople
      • Jason Jeffries, Blenderbox CEO, speaks about web marketing and social media
    • July
      • Flash to get better indexing in search engines
      • sometimes
      • Amazon invests in Engine Yard to take Rails further into the cloud
      • Using Google as your address bar
      • The desktop, literally
      • Font Conference
      • Why you should test your ad campaigns
    • August
      • DHH on Rails and Twitter
    • September
      • A bash script for bootstrapping a Rails app with jRails/jQuery, rspec, restful-authentication, and a default controller.
    • October
      • Psychogeography is such an amazing thing!
      • Archaeopteryx
      • Introducing Compost
      • Launched: the New + Improved Backbone NYC
      • Useful regular expressions in Google Analytics
    • December
      • shoulda todo list integration test
  • 2007
    • December
      • The two-hour Star Wars holiday special in only five minutes
      • "What happens when the $100 laptop actually gets used?"
      • What makes Ruby so great?
      • David Byrne On The NY Times
      • SVN tip: see what was changed in a revision
      • Google Zeitgeist 2007
      • Getting people to contribute
      • Fantastic Fixes Help Your Sad, Pathetic Cubicle
      • Last minute christmas ideas
      • Metrics for non-ecommerce websites
      • Sending mail on a Mac
      • word perhect
      • Linus Torvalds Presentation on Git
      • The Simplest 'x' That Could Possibly Work
      • IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet
      • HTML5 Preview
      • the fulton fence
    • November
      • 15 excellent examples of web typography
      • Food pairing visualizations
  • 2009
    • February
      • 960 Grid System: HTML wireframes?
    • March
      • Blenderbox Launches Hewlett Beta
    • April
      • SEO Tip: 301 Redirect
    • May
      • Blenderbox Takes Home 5 Summit Creative Awards
      • Founder Jason Jeffries speaks at Brooklyn Business Summit
      • Blendercise!
    • June
      • The Cryptic Canvas
      • Blenderbox Named IMA Top 10 Agency of the Year
      • The best thing about my new job...
      • Is it just me?
    • July
      • Trend Report: I have a job
    • August
      • Introducing the Public Shame 2000
      • “Are you on facebook?” Is this the new “Can I have your number?”
      • should_be_valid_with_factory macro for Shoulda/factory_girl
      • 64-bit MySQL, Ruby, Rails, RubyGems and Git installer for Snow Leopard
    • October
      • DBP, Renée Rouleau, Blenderbox Honored with W3 Gold Awards
  • 2010
    • February
      • Oooh, Aaah.. Color Scheme Designer 3!
      • BLENDERBOX NAMED BROOKLYN BREWERY'S 2010 DIGITAL AGENCY OF RECORD
    • March
      • Windows console 'ls' tip
      • The problem with Clients from Hell
      • I Got to Touch a Sloth!
      • Color Capture
      • Superscript and subscript with dynamic flash text
    • May
      • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Terminal Opacity
      • The things we’re doing with plastic….
      • A Logo Merger
      • You learn from your failures…or do you?
      • Keeping Tabs
      • Have a break. Have a Kit Kat. Have a chair.
      • 224 New Colors!
      • If we're not talking on cell phones then what are we doing?
      • before and after
    • June
      • Themes from An Event Apart (Boston 2010)
      • Blenderbox Summer Rooftop Tech Talks – Join Us!
    • August
      • Unrealistic design: The NYT's Taxi TV proposal
      • Last week in Blenderbox UX (August 16-20, 2010)
    • September
      • bundler installing gems into the rails root directory
    • November
      • Styling search input types in HTML5
      • Styling placeholder text in HTML5
  • 2011
    • January
      • Importing a CSV into MySql
      • Reindexing node types in Drupal 6
      • Installing RVM + Ruby + Rails + Passenger + nginx on CentOS
      • Uploading docx files with Paperclip and Rails
    • February
      • Can't convert Syck::DomainType into String
    • March
      • Pro-tip for form autocompletion
    • April
      • Install wowza media server on Amazon EC2 and S3
      • Setup an AWS Ubuntu 10.10 server instance with Ruby on Rails, mysql, nginx, and Passenger
    • June
      • Want really well designed content? Here's what it takes.
      • jQuery 1.6.1+ and setInterval
      • Git Basics
    • September
      • Can't open file: 'sessions.MYI'
    • July
      • CSS for newbies
    • October
      • import a gzipped database backup
      • Setting up MCFileManager on Drupal 7 with Capistrano
    • November
      • How to modify a Drupal 7 view query to order by two columns simultaneously
      • What is a modern web application?
      • Pimp out your rvm profile
      • Code Cards: Christmas cards for your compiler
      • Front-end development bundle for Google Reader
      • 4 Problems with Instant Usability Assessments
      • Highlights from the HTML5 Weekly
    • December
      • How to evaluate a redesign? Start with the facts.
  • 2012
    • January
      • More case studies for UX, please
    • February
      • How to create a content model: an overview
    • April
      • Direction aware hovers
      • Upgrading to Lion
    • June
      • Wave Hill Launches
    • October
      • Serving @font-face fonts to Firefox from an S3 bucket
      • Update Wordpress & Plugins over SSH
    • December
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  • 2013
    • February
      • Use SSH agent forwarding to deploy via Capistrano
      • View SCSS in Chrome Dev Tools with Source Maps
      • RVM aliases
    • April
      • 4 Lessons We Learned At SXSWedu

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