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Alex Chousmith

Development

Must Be Good At Googling

Here's the problem : there is a web page with a form to enter your Email and Password, to log in to the website, not unlike the Facebook homepage (shown above). To be helpful, the input fields for Email and Password have some text that appears on them, to guide users to enter their Email and Password (again, not unlike the Facebook homepage). You, as a visitor, are using Mozilla Firefox, because its the cool thing to do and it…
April 3, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

IE7 and Starbucks = Made for Each Other?

It must be a Friday revelation. I was talking to the new Matt, and on the wonders of trying to get websites to render correctly in the splendor of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, and it hit me. IE7 comes from Microsoft, which is loosely based out of the Seattle region of Washington. Working with IE7 can be exhausting. When you are exhausted, what can help pick you up? Caffeine! What has caffeine? Coffee! Where do you get coffee? Starbucks! Where…
April 3, 2009
Marketing

Watchmen comes out today, aka, why I should learn to buy movie tickets in advance…

Yes, today is 03-06-09, which means Watchmen the movie is all up on us all, today. Or something. The IM waiting for me when I got back from lunch basically said "Jess and Gavin want to go watch it on IMAX at Mira Mesa, but can't figure out what times its playing." Upon further inspection, our available options for today are (were) 8:45am, 12:10pm, and 2:00am. 3:10, 7:10, and 10:10 are o u t out of the question. And that's…
March 6, 2009