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My name is Mattias Hising. I run a Stockholm based company named 80 Ridge Street Media. I live outside Stockholm and I think it would be awesome if you contacted me with any questions at mattias at ridgestreet dot se.
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What is the Worst Thing That Can Happen
You have probably read one of those Manager e-mails that go out once in a while in bigger organizations: I am sorry to announce that John Doe has decided to leave Acme Inc and I wish him the best of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged fear, freelance, salary Leave a comment
Small jQuery plugin for Table of Contents
I needed to create a ToC for a FAQ. I wrote a little jQuery plugin for it. Dead simple, no indenting or other magic, just creating anchors for headers, gets the job done. The Script: http://frontendbook.com/js/jquery.toc-1.0.js Feel free to use, … Continue reading
Posted in JavaScript
Tagged JavaScript, jQuery, plugin Leave a comment
Follow @hising on Twitter
I am moving my blogging more and more to Twitter (@hising) and other services such as Tumblr (http://awesome.hising.com) and Posterous and will only write longer posts on this blog in the future. However I post a lot of links and … Continue reading
TextMate and Transmit 4 Settings
I upgraded to Transmit 4 a couple of weeks ago and I really missed the functionality I had setup on Transmit 3 and Textmate where I could double click any text file in Transmit and get it to open in … Continue reading
Posted in Web Development
Tagged Mac, textmate, transmit 4 2 Comments
Setting up a website with WordPress 3 in 10 minutes
A good friend of mine is setting up a website about watches and I think he has made a good choice of software for the site, he uses WordPress 3 for the development of the site. I think he takes … Continue reading
Posted in Web Development
Tagged theme, User Experience, Web Development, Wordpress, WordPress 3 1 Comment
Weekly Links and Comments
Mad Libs Increase Form Conversions with 25-40% This week saw a lot of discussion on “Mad Libs” on how conversion for forms could increase dramatically by using forms with inline elements and a narrative format. LukeW writes about a test … Continue reading
Posted in Design
Tagged A/B Testing, buzrr, buzz, conversion, conversion rates, Design, forms, links, optimization, Twitter Leave a comment
What Are Spotify Doing Right?
I really like Spotify and I was wondering why I like it and what they are doing well and they could do better in order to become a better product and actually start making money. 3 Different Models for Entering … Continue reading
Posted in Product Management
Tagged Product Management, spotify 4 Comments
