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Entries from March 2006

Blog happy

March 28th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Why stop with one blog when you can have two for the price of one?
I thought I’d point out that there’s a blog on the FormSpring site to publicize new features and improvements to the service. If anyone was looking here to follow FormSpring, the blog there is now a better place to look. [...]

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Loving ApacheBench

March 27th, 2006 · No Comments

One of the best tools for web application developers has got to be ApacheBench (ab), a program that’s bundled in with the stock Apache distribution. If you’re developing web applications and not using it frequently, you need to.
I was working on some code today and thought, “wouldn’t it be great if I made it [...]

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Search engine validation shootout

March 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I was on the Yahoo! homepage recently and noticed that they still don’t have a background color specified for their page. It’s a quirky pet peeve I picked up a while back. I used to make my default browser background color something other than white so I’d easily know if didn’t set that attribute [...]

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Buzz

March 24th, 2006 · 4 Comments

I submitted FormSpring for review to Emily Chang’s eHub blog yesterday, she posted it around 2:30am and the site’s been buzzing ever since. There’ve been some moments when I got several users sign up for a demo account per minute. I was somewhat pleased with the trickle I was getting before now, but [...]

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I am not a designer

March 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

I finally got some copy up on the Recursive Function site and redesigned the FormSpring site as well to integrate the new logo. It’s funny how four people in the last two days have asked me when I’m going to add copy to the RF site. You guys are so impatient.
Actually, [...]

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