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Posts from October 2009

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23 October 2009 @ 8am

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Testing web fonts

Having recently received my TypeKit invite, I went ahead and purchased the USD 25 Personal plan and font-ified my blog. TypeKit takes a very interesting approach to web fonts: you add a bit of JavaScript to your <head> tag and then manage which fonts you want to use where in the TypeKit editor.
Great fonts in [...]


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6 October 2009 @ 11am

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Helping ourselves, helping you

Shaun Inman created Mint years before we had GetSatisfaction. He likely got tired of answering the same questions over and over again, and added a bit of instruction to his home-grown forum (below).

Forums don’t scale well
Frankly, if you use a plain-vanilla forum for customer support, you’re sabotaging yourself. When a forum has thousands of threads [...]


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5 October 2009 @ 2pm

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Parsing tweeted links, part 2

I come across a lot of interesting links. So many, in fact, that I need to spend my attention wisely. I asked around on Twitter, where Dave Malouf suggested using Instapaper and Bjørn Wang pointed out that your Twitterstream isn’t the only place we need to parse links.
Make a feed with ReadTwit
After posting part 1, Ida [...]


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