Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine

Gotta love this... Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine.

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Skype Will Not Verify Phone - Google Voice Help

FYI - we have a google voice number for Food on the Table -and forward it to our SkypeIn number. However, at some point we realized that it wasn’t working. No matter what we did, we could not get a call to go thrugh Google Voice to SkypeIn. Fortunately, I found an answer we had Skype set so that it would only”Receive Calls to my online number” from people in my contact list.

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Fix for: can't use fluid with campfire anymore...

Now that 37signals centralized their user management, my existing Fluid-based campfire doesn’t work. Specifically, I can’t login because it keeps opening a new window in my regular browser to login, instead of completing the login within Fluid. I googled for “can’t use campfire with fluid” and similar, and no luck. A little more digging and I found reference to Making Fluid Ssbs Browse Only Pages You Want - fluidapp | Google Groups.

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Installing nokogiri Slicehost's Ubuntu Hardy

Here’s the steps to get nokogiri installed; sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev sudo gem install nokogiri sudo gem install racc sudo gem install rexical (at this point, when I tried “gem install how”, it complained I didn’t have RubyGems >= 1.3.1. which is required for “hoe”) sudo gem install rubygems-update -v=1.3.4 sudo update_rubygems sudo gem install hoe via Mark Howe » Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.

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For Leopard, installing Sphinx from ports with mysql binary from mysql

Given I’ve installed sphinx And I’ve used mac port for the install When I run sphinx indexer Then it expects the mysql socket to be in /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock Given I’ve installed mysql And I’ve used the binary from mysql When I run mysqld Then it use the mysql socket in /tmp/mysql.sock To get sphinx indexer to use my installed version of mysql, I have to change make a change in the sphinx.

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Please vote for my SXSWi Panel "Lean Startups: Beyond the Hype, Successes, Failures & Techniques"

Last day to vote for my SXSWi panel; please vote! “Lean Startups: Beyond the Hype, Successes, Failures & Techniques” http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3884

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iPhone Voicemail Badness - why-oh-why AT&T #fb

Noticing that I haven’t received any new voicemails in over a week - and hearing rumors about problems with voicemail on the iPhone… I reset my iPhone and after a reboot - ta-da! Over a weeks worth of voicemails suddenly appear. Grrr. Never seen this before and I’ve had my 1st generation iPhone for a couple of years

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kanban development oversimplified + shiny bits on couchdb

Lots of buzz lately about kanban / lean in software development. While watching this from the sidelines, I’ve also been looking at my current team and previous teams and gauging applicability. With my current team (at FiveRuns), we hit a point a while ago where the team began to reject the extra formality and overhead in some of our scrum practices (e.g. sprint planning, release planning) and began to smooth our rhythm out until we ended up, more or less, as continuous-flow.

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FiveRuns at RailsConf/CabooseConf and taking folks to see Penn & Teller

Attending RailsConf and/or CabooseConf? Join FiveRuns to see Penn & Teller perform at the Rio on Tuesday night. We’ve got transportation and 40 tickets to catch Penn & Teller at the Rio on Tuesday night. Want to join us? Drop your name in the… hat. Okay, it’s not a hat, but you get the idea. Enter your name before 8am Tuesday morning; winners will be notified by 10am via email.

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Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step

O’Reilly and Eric Ries are doing an interesting webcast - Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step. Having recently waded into this end of the pool - I’m getting a lot out of the whole lean startup idea. No great surprise, since it extends what I’m familiar with, from within product development, to all the streams of work that makes up a startup

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