One of the smartest, most strategic guys I met in my time at Yahoo! was a guy named Ian Rogers.
Ian was (is) an unassuming leader, never accepting how what is should remain what’s next. Yahoo! Music had just bought his company, Mediacode, and I was on the integration/next phase team. We all were to take [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
No One Said It Was Easy
Documenting Your Work
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Earlier this year, Howard Weaver started a wiki called McClatchyNext in hopes of better sharing information. As a long-time user of wikis (what’s a wiki?), I loved the idea. Unfortunately for me, the site became more of a forum and I lost interest.
That does not mean, however, wikis should be ignored. The [...]
Little Things, Part II
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Flickr – almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world – shares developer thoughts on the little things only a couple days after my mention.
A snippet:
“Getting the fine details down “just so” can take extra time and effort, but in my experience has always been justified - and whenever your work is [...]
What Exactly Is Pluck Passing Around?
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If you look at what’s being output in both the console and the DOM for your sites, you’ll see that Pluck is carrying around a lot more about the user than the avatar and persona link.
Here’s a bit of jQuery that helps dive into some of this data:
$(window).load(function () {
// run code
for(var i=frames.length-1; i>=0; i–){
var [...]
Direct Linking To Your Persona
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I have to give credit where credit is due… the guys in Sacramento cooked this up (thanks, Kevin McClusky).
If you’re like me you needed a simple link to get someone to their persona page and you did NOT need the avatar with it.
You need two functions:
// Grabs a cookie based on cookie, and optionally sub [...]
PubsysEdit 2.1 Released
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Version 2.1: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/static/firefox/pubsysedit_v21.xpi
Features
How to install
Notes
Template modifications
FEATURES
- Direct access to edit a story if you are on a story level URL.
- Access to the following section-specific items (menu appears at the top of the screen):
Highlight Lists
Published Items
Edit Section
Templates
Page Elements
Aliases
Rebuild Index
Site Hierarchy (this is for entire site)
- Access to the following on a per link basis off [...]
more...Math and the Intertubes
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Some of the best ideas I’ve seen on the internet involve using math and/or challenging old conventions to re-introduce long-standing concepts. Tags/labels instead of folders (think del.icio.us), or algorithms like LAUNCH’s (now Yahoo! Music) to predict what users would like based on other preferences.
You’re probably not surprised given that short intro that I loved FiveThirtyEight.com [...]
The Little Things Add Up
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To perhaps no one’s surprise that knows me, I get a little (well-deserved) grief from my team about “keeping user patterns and design consistent.” I may focus on user experience so much so that if I happen to present an idea that’s not in line with another part of the site in question, Dave [...]
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