Riding With Nimish

Riding the train with Nimish.

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Here a Tweet, There a Tweet

Everyone’s twittering about Twitter.

As @ev explained on @oprah today, the term twitter comes from the sound birds make when they’re communicating.  It symbolizes chatter; quick or light conversation.

So now that the rest of the world is catching on to Twitter, how do we “veterans” :-) get them to understand what it’s really about?

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SaleFail – Salesforce.com Automated Sales Letter Fails

I just received an email from my sales rep at SalesForce.com.  Typically, these are just annoying, but I understand that everyone’s trying to sell something and I’m bound to be on some lists.

But this one actaully irritated me because it pretended to be personal, even off-the-cuff, but ended up looking like careless spam.

Take a look:

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Time Warner’s EarthLink Internet Loses the Race

I currently subscribe to the EarthLink High Speed Internet service from Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey.

I’d like to point out the irony of that service’s name: High Speed

For starters, let me tell you how I ended up with this particular service.

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Coding Forms in Good Form

If you’re looking to create an HTML form, I’d highly recommend skimming Fancy Form Design Using CSS by SitePoint.

This is a very straightforward article which highlights a lot of best practes for styling HTML form elements with CSS. The end result is a clean form, both visually and syntactically.

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Upload Components for PHP and Flash

Have you ever had to add an upload feature to your site? I haven’t had to do this in many years, so I was pleasantly surprised when I looked around and found that there’s some fantastic components which make this really easy.

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Coffee Machine

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”

- P. Erdos

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