December 2011
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H223: Topic Analysis →
The Facebook homepage is directed towards many different varieties of audiences. The primary variation in audience demographics, however, is age. Facebook needs to appeal to both the younger and older generations and the same time. The purpose of the home page (when not logged in, of course) is to encourage users to sign up for the Facebook service, so it needs to present the value of the service...
November 2011
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H223: Company Facebook Page Analysis →
Now I don’t want to seem biased, but I’m once again going to pick a Fuzzco product for analysis, except this time it’s their Facebook page, not a billboard they made. Yes, you guessed it, I’m analyzing Fuzzco’s Facebook page.
Their page serves a fairly specific purpose: to represent the company to prospective clients, employees, and the casual passerby.
Prospective...
October 2011
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H223: Home Page Analysis →
37signals (37signals.com) is a small (but quickly growing) company that develops web-based project management, contact management, document sharing, and group chat software for individuals and businesses. Their company culture is centered around a striving for simplicity, efficiency (zero meetings), and a sort of frankness. Their website is designed to both communicate their nature as a company...
September 2011
3 posts
H223: Email Analysis →
Newegg is a popular online reseller of electronics, with a focus on computer hardware, including both external and internal components. The audience they advertise almost exclusively to are system builders (people who construct their own computers from a variety of aftermarket parts) and consumer electronics enthusiasts. Many of these system builders decide to build their own computers from...
H223: Billboard Audience Analysis →
The billboard was designed by my friends at Fuzzco for the new Cane Bay development in Summerville. Being a new development in a location that is relatively far outside the Charleston area, it was essential for them to ensure that potential purchasers would feel like they would have the same convenience that a more urban property would have. The audience was clearly new families looking for a home...
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November 2010
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Clients From Hell: How Low Can Your Logo? →
I can’t believe the copy I wrote for Excellencico ended up on Clients From Hell!
clientsfromhell:
An anonymous reader writes in to tell us about the How Low Can Your Logo contest. In true crowd source fashion, participants compete to design shitty logos for Excellencico, “a global leader in providing a focused, broad range of services to a world-class, international,...
October 2010
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August 2010
5 posts
Readme Driven Development →
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The Great College Visit of 2010 Begins
In about 4 hours I will be flying out of my little home town/small city, Charleston, South Carolina. After 2 hours airborne I will land in Philadelphia. From there, over the course of about 12 days, I will visit New York City, Troy, Boston, Providence, and a few other places. If I knew some Latin quote blessing the traveler with safety, I’d use it now.
July 2010
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June 2010
7 posts
Custom Google Backgrounds (Google Blog, "Freeze... →
I think we all realize, of course, what this will be used for… dicks. Giant male (or female) genitalia all over our Google search pages.
Such is the way of the Internet.
This is a reference to the Kotaku story about using custom end zone’s in the upcoming game Backbreaker. Read more about the lovely filth of the Internet gaming community here.
May 2010
9 posts
Into The Forrst: On Forrst's architecture →
I’ve been getting a few requests for a write-up like this from curious Forrst’ers, so here goes nothing.
Hardware:
We’re on three MediaTemple (ve) boxes: one database, one staging, and one web frontend. They’ve each got 2GB RAM, 10,000 RPM RAID-10 disks, and all of that good stuff. I recommend…
Mongo and ec2 320k ops →
If only I could afford that many large EC2 instances.
(via jackhq)
I’m looking at using XMPP to share some complex data (Will likely be JSON’ed or Marshal’ed.) between multiple independent Rails and Ruby (and later node.js) applications. Any input?
April 2010
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March 2010
5 posts
February 2010
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January 2010
1 post
RailsTips: Uploadify and Rails 2.3 →
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December 2009
13 posts
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/12/23nissan.html →
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http://ozmm.org/posts/johnson.html →
Interpreting JavaScript inside Ruby, what a great idea.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/14/advanced... →
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