Archive for January, 2009


Friday Distraction for 1/30/09

WOW! Metamorphosis from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.

Friday Distractions

Selling Campaign Monitor to Your Customers

I am a big fan of the e-mail marketing app Campaign Monitor (CM) as you can see in my recent post 10 Reasons Why Campaign Monitor Rocks. Shortly after writing that post I decided to try and introduce CM to my users and see if I can sell them on the program. I developed a [...]

How-to

Friday Distraction for 1/23/09

Bars & Tones from André Chocron on Vimeo.

Friday Distractions

Implementing Facebook Connect (Part 2) – Establishing a Connection

Two weeks ago I took a look at Facebook Connect (FC) summarizing what it is and why developers would want to integrate it with their own applications in part 1 of this series. Originally I had thought this would be a two post topic but as I have learned more about FC I think it’s [...]

How-to, Programming

Displaying Code in WordPress

Does anyone know of a good way, plugin or other, to display code in your WordPress posts? I have been wrestling with this for a while and have yet to find a solution that works. Please post any recommendations in the comments. Thanks!

Misc.

Friday Distraction for 1/16/09

Take a deep breath and just watch. Iceland from Eva Sturm on Vimeo.

Friday Distractions

Friday Distraction for 1/9/09

Very cool visual! Magnetosphere revisited (audio by Tosca) from flight404 on Vimeo.

Friday Distractions

Implementing Facebook Connect (Part 1) – What is Facebook Connect?

Image via CrunchBase I have been spending some time recently developing an online community which will hopefully be launched next quarter. One of the things I wanted to integrate is OpenID to try and lessen the burden of signing-up and logging-in. However, after doing some research I’m thinking that Facebook Connect might be the better [...]

How-to, Programming

JPG Magazine Says Goodbye

I received a very sad e-mail this morning from JPG Magazine announcing they will be shuttering their site on Monday January 5th.  In the e-mail they site a lack of funds and troubling economic times as the reasons they cannot continue. It’s unfortunate any time you hear about a worthwhile project going under but I [...]

Misc.

10 Reasons Why Campaign Monitor Rocks

Image via Wikipedia E-mail marketing apps are a dime a dozen now a days. Each one claims it has better delivery rates than the other, more pre-designed HTML templates than the other and better support. However, I found an e-mail marketing app a while back that has just differentiated itself from the rest of the [...]

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