Jun
22
Sender IDs
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We’ve got another hoop to jump through on email campaigns:
Sender
ID is Microsoft’s version of an email sender authentication program.
(There’s no single standard now and other companies who are also
inventing authentication programs call them by different names.)
Sender IDs required by Hotmail
Jun
18
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
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I’ve never quite understood other character sets. Here’s the answer:
Joel on Software – The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
s article I’ll fill you in on exactly what every working programmer should know. All that stuff about “plain text = ascii = characters are 8 bits” is not only wrong, it’s hopelessly wrong, and if you’re still programming that way, you’re not much better than a medical doctor who doesn’t believe in germs. Please do not write another line of code until you finish reading this article.Before I get started, I should warn you that if you are one of those rare people who knows about internationalization, you are going to find my entire discussion a little bit oversimplified. I’m really just trying to set a minimum bar here so that everyone can understand what’s going on and can write code that has a hope of working with text in any language other than the subset of English…
Jun
17
Bonus How-To: Use DittyBot and Skype to access your iTunes collection from any cellphone
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Really quite useless, but very interesting how they’re pulling different technologies together. Bonus How-To: Use DittyBot and Skype to access your iTunes collection from any cellphone – Engadget – www.engadget.com
Jun
17
Persuasion: Beyond Usability and User Centered Design
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I’ve been reading Call to Action: Secret Formulas to Improve Online Results and the authors advocate persuasion as the real goal of a commercial website, not usability.
Wandering through a website endlessly, but very easily, doesn’t do customers any good. They need answers. Answering the questions of different personas that visit your site persuades them to stick around and eventually buy.
The Persuasive Process
1. Who needs to be persuaded?
2. What actions does this person need to take?
3. How will you effectively persuade that person?
The book is fantastic and only getting better. More thoughts to come.
Jun
14
Podapic
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Unbelievable what kind of impact a music player can have on the world! Check out the podapic: Gallery
Jun
12
Disconnect Generations = Screwtape Letter 27
Filed Under Education and Love for Learning, Favorite Books, Genealogy to Family History to FamilyLearn, Home, Family and Church | 1 Comment
In C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, Screwtape, one of the devil’s servants, writes his nephew about the importance of disconnecting each generation from all others.
“It is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another. But thanks be to Our Father [the Devil] and the Historical Point of View, great scholars are now as little nourished by the past as the most ignorant mechanic who holds that ‘history is bunk.’
Jun
11
Perfect Upload Progress Script
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I just want to reference a Perfect Upload Progress Script.
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Jun
11
ONLamp.com: Ajax on Rails
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There is an important suggestion here for Ajax applications. Use a library that takes care of the idiosyncrasies of each browser. ONLamp.com: Ajax on Rails
Jun
9
Does God Help Entreprenuers
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Paul Allen asked a fascinating question today on his blog: Does God Help Entreprenuers?
He continued:
Someday I want to write an entire book on this subject.
It fascinates me to look back in history, to read the biographies and autobiographies of inventors and entrepreneurs, looking for acknowledgment of divine influence in their work.
Over the years I have read and heard many stories from innovators who believe that God gave them an idea, or helped them through a problem, or guided their efforts to find solutions.
Some entrepreneurs are actively religious, attending churches, synagogues, or mosques; others are “spiritual”, connecting with Divinity in their own way, through prayer, nature, or meditation, or in other ways.
I intend to start asking many of my entrepreneurial friends, with all kinds of religious views, if they believe God has helped them, and if so, why and how? If I get enough good material, I’ll publish it sooner or later.
Here is my response to his thoughts:
Paul, a few years ago, I began to feel that everything that is good in this world is INSPIRATION or IMITATION. We either receive inspiration from another source not of our own or we imitate those who have. I believe that more everyday. I’d be happy to share a few of the many ways in which God has helped and inspired me in my work when you need content for your book. I’ve been keeping a list of the significant turning points for FamilyLearn as a result of inspiration that I can’t claim. I look forward to your findings and your book.
Jun
8
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