Blog Posts

  • Epic customer service

    I know that Zappos is a huge corporation and they get enough praise, but my recent experience is cause for celebration. Or a post, whatever. At around 10 PM on the 21st, I placed an order on Zappos for a pair of shoes. About two hours later (while I was asleep) I got an email […]

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  • Clicking out of a dropdown with Scriptaculous/Prototype

    I’m posting this in the hopes that it saves someone a few hours. I recently had to implement a multi-select dropdown using Prototype and Scriptaculous. The big hurdle I encountered was trying to hide the dropdown part when the user clicks out. Here’s what the HTML looks like: <div> <div onclick=”Effect.toggle(‘dropdown’)”>Click to select…</div> <div id=”dropdown” […]

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  • Poor Apple!

    Yesterday, Apple had their big press event about the iPhone 4 and its antenna issues. While Uncle Steve never explicitly admitted a problem, they did say they’d give away cases and bumpers to placate their customers. Seems a bit of doublespeak, but that’s besides the point. I’d like to focus on a few things that […]

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  • Out the gate

    I’m currently reading the text from Apple’s press event that’s going on right now. Here’s a direct quote from Uncle Steve: ‘Antennagate’ — it doesn’t seem like a good idea if you touch your phone in a certain way and the bars go down. But one of the first things we learned: it’s certainly not […]

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  • Working in the Arctic

    In 2005, Junichiro Koizumi, then the Prime Minister of Japan (and epic hair guy) announced a “Cool Biz” campaign. The basic idea of this campaign was that, between June and September, office workers should dress down rather than wear ties and jackets. In doing so, offices could raise their thermostats to around 82°F, thus saving […]

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