Weekly review: Week ending April 8, 2011

April 9, 2011

Plans from last week: Work [X] Worked at the office every day to introduce and answer questions from new developer (MM) [X] Retagged site for new DFP account (MM) [X] Fixed huge SEO problem (MM) [X] Fixed VIP subscription problem (MM) Flighted rotating product ads (MM) Fixed aggregated article list problem (MM) Researched the new [...]

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Colour Catcher review

April 7, 2011

Over the last week or so I’ve been testing a product called Colour Catcher that promises to reduce or even eliminate the risk of discolored clothes, increasing the lifetime of ones garments and allowing one to wash more different clothes at the same time. I didn’t want to take a lot of risk for the [...]

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The workplace of the future

April 5, 2011

I just read a report from Skype (via Mashable) that finds 62% of all surveyed companies already use remote workers, i.e. employees working from home (“WFH”) some or all of their time. While this is presumably a US based survey I guess the situation here in Scandinavia is comparable, and I believe this is a [...]

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Weekly review: Week ending March 25, 2011

March 26, 2011

Plans from last week: Work [X] Last preparations for new employee (order hardware etc.) (MM) [X] Consolidated to-do lists in FogBugz (MM) [X] Set up local development environment for CMS sources (MM) [X] Moved two servers to new environment (MM) [X] Declared EU taxes (CC) [X] Invoiced customers (CC) Licensed PHPStorm and BeyondCompare Pro (CC) [...]

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Why don’t browsers ship with jQuery?

March 18, 2011

This is really not so much a blog entry as it is a question… why don’t browsers “ship” with jQuery and other common frameworks? Years ago, browser vendors competed over JavaScript engine features, nowadays they compete over JavaScript engine performance. Thanks to cross-browser frameworks (with jQuery being the most prominent) features and compatibility are no [...]

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Is Linux Mint adware?

March 3, 2011

I’m an avid reader of LifeHacker and recently tried out the Linux Mint distribution after reading this post. While I don’t use Linux on the desktop, I run a couple of servers on Ubuntu and other distributions. My interest in Linux on the desktop roots in friends and relatives sometimes asking me for advice on [...]

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