0There was a time — not that long ago, really — when I was the up-and-coming kid in the office. I was young, I was hip, I was on top of everything new. I was the one who, in 1995, went to the people running the interactive agency where I was working and said, “You [...]
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Nick Chase
0It’s nice to hear about social media case studies, but maybe it’s even better to experience one first-hand. This past Saturday, on the freeway about an hour from home, my transmission quit. After coasting about an mile and a half to an exit, I called AAA, and they made arrangements for me to speak with [...]
0I majored in physics in college, not software engineering. For that reason, I felt kind of intimidated by formally-trained programmers for a long time. Even though I was working as a professional programmer (albeit in Macromedia Director, the predecessor to Flash) I didn’t know what business rules were, or Extreme Programming, or anything that the [...]
0As part of cleaning up the blog for the Year Of Living Socially, I really want to clear up the amount of spam I have to deal with. Once I installed the blog as it’s current address, I immediately started getting comment spam. It’s not bad yet — just a dozen or so comments a [...]
So yesterday I announced the Year of Living Socially, a year in which I’m going to complete a project that’s been in the works for years — right here in public, while I get my social media act together. There’s an awful lot of groundwork to lay, so I thought I’d start by defining just what it is that we have to do.
The application we’re building in the Year Of Living Socially is basically the one I’ve been wishing I had for the last fifteen years or so. I try to keep up with all the goings-on in several topic areas, and it’s a full-time job I just can’t afford to take. The purpose of this application is first to gather all of that content in one place, and second to organize it in such a way that I can get all of the information quickly and painlessly.
I’m setting myself a three-pronged challenge for 2011: 1) Focus on cloud computing, social media, and intelligent search, 2) Finally build that information aggregator I’ve been working on for years and 3) Implement best practices for using social media, including regular postings to Twitter and either LinkedIn, Facebook, or both. In other words, to take on a big project out here in public.
0As you may have noticed, I’ve got a poll over there on the left that lists some topics I might write tutorials about. I’ve been doing a ton of jQuery work lately, so I thought I might put that on the list, but there is apparently a ton of good material out there already. Specifically, [...]
0Over at Manning Press, we are building a system that relies heavily on the Subversion version control system, but more and more authors are coming in and saying that they are using Git instead. Git is not, as I had originally thought, a fork of SVN, but instead a distributed system, in which every user [...]
0Today I was introduced to an incredibly handy plugin for jQuery called Boxy. You know those Facebook-type modal dialogues that pop up on a web page and grey-out everything else? Well, Boxy lets you do that with one simple Javascript command, as in: $(‘.boxy’).boxy(); It includes all sorts of options as well, including a handy [...]