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

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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

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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

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10 reasons why Flash sucks

It just sucks First reason is pretty easy. Flash just sucks. It is not an open standard Flash sucks, if it was open someone who actually know what they are doing could fix it. Now that is impossible. It makes … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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Search – Still the Next Killer Application

I had a really interesting workshop/discussion the other day at work, discussing how to integrate tags as a way to visualize a vast selection of services we offer. The more I thought about it, the more I came to the … Continue reading

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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

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You Know You Are Doing Things Right When…

more and more people start to use your product, but you are not doing any direct marketing people who look like movie stars start to send in their fake CV:s to you you actually enjoy what you are doing you … Continue reading

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