Monthly Archives: June 2008

Embracing constraints

By jonezy | Published: June 17, 2008
In the design and development world there is a lot of talk about constraints and embracing them to foster creativity. I love this movement and subscribe to it (at least I try to). One thing that has slowly crept up on me though is that this type of attitude is starting to gain some real [...]
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Spread Firefox!

By jonezy | Published: June 16, 2008
Tomorrow, the Mozilla foundation is releasing the latest version of the Firefox browser. While they are at it they are also trying to set a record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period. If you aren’t using Firefox tomorrow would be a great time to try it, it really is [...]
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Why can’t I do that?

By jonezy | Published: June 16, 2008
I just had to post this video I came across the other day, it’s a google tech talk and the presenter is Aza Raskin (Son of Jeff Raskin, the guy who started the macintosh project for apple).  He’s also one of the founders of Humanized who make the most excellent Enso launcher product, a company [...]
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Birthday Contest @ CodeSqueeze

By jonezy | Published: June 8, 2008
Max Poole is holding a contest at his blog to give away a copy of Bamboo 2.0 (continuous integration software) and a copy of Slick Edit (suite of add-ons for visual studio) I’ve never used the Slick Edit product but I’ve got lot’s of experience using Atlassian products (Jira and confluence) and would love to get [...]
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NIRI and Web 2.0

By jonezy | Published: June 8, 2008
For the past 2 years the amazing sales team that I work with at Q4 Web Systems have ventured out to San Diego for the annual NIRI conference. It’s a really important event for us and it’s always great to hear about it when the team get’s back. This morning while I was going through [...]
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Rocks and Rewards!

By jonezy | Published: June 2, 2008
So as part of our company alignment and implementing the Rockefeller Habits at Q4 our quarterly theme was moving rocks together. We set aside a room with a video camera and plates with peoples names on them, if you felt the urge to recognize someone you could go into the room and record a short [...]
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