February, 2012
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“These are the best labels I’ve had (peeled) in a while.”
“It’s the humidity.”
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We have a shiny, new careers page on the Crowd Favorite website. For the first time, I think what we have up there pretty accurately reflects both what we’re looking for and what we offer. Our new approach is a little different than most jobs pages; it doesn’t list any jobs. I’ve always struggled to…
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This is why we can’t have nice things.
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Short answer: yes. Filed under: things I learned the hard way.
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Very interesting to hear. (thanks NextDraft)
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Team meeting to kick off our SVN to Git migration. With ice cream, of course.
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I ran into an interesting “bug” in Twitter Tools last night that I traced back to http_build_query(). I expected that the query strings generated by this function used & as a separator for the key=value pairs, but on one of our test servers, the separator being used was &. This is a php.ini config setting,…
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When the Internet connection goes down at midnight, I read that as “go to bed and push your commits in the morning”.
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“Daddy, I got out of bed!” And so it begins…
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While we were working on the new Boston Globe website, we devised a technique to mitigate the size of requests for users that may have limited bandwidth. Before I describe it here, I should really warn you up front: it broke. But we planned for that.

