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Why marketing isn’t bullshit

Alex Hunter from FOWA 2010:
Why the hell should I care about marketing? I’m a developer.

Marketing is the cancer on the nutsack of creativity. You cannot afford to take your eye off your brand for one second. No excuses.
This is 100% relevant to our industry because we are directly responsible for changing it. We have managed [...]

Wanted: PHP Application Developer at Ning

I’ve been working at Ning for 3 months now, and it’s never felt like “work”. One of the cool things about working here is that we have a lot of engineers; both Java and PHP. And they move very fast.

Everyone is in IRC channels all the time talking about projects (#product), managing deployments (#maint), or [...]

Varkfarts: because there really are dumb questions

I’m a huge fan of the subjective search site Aardvark. Anyone can ask a question, and Aardvark looks for the best person to answer that question based on their knowledge.
A couple weeks ago, a co-worker of mine sent me a skitch to a funny question she received on Aardvark. I immediately thought, “let’s make [...]

Foursquare Wordpress Plugin

Update (November 17th, 2009): The plugin hasn’t been updated in a few months, so the API may have changed. I will try to tackle version 0.3 this weekend if I have some time.
This is my first plugin, so let’s see how it goes!

Usage (version 0.2)
Download the zip file and extract the contents to your [...]

Wanted: Senior UX Designer at Ning

I have been working on the design team at Ning for the past few months, and I love it. Working at a startup is more fun than you can even imagine. The best part is that the team is small enough and focused on the product that all of your ideas will be heard and [...]