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Slim progress bars for Zepto with zprogress 23 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
Do you like the slim progress bars used by Chrome on Android as well as Safari on [redacted]? What’s a slim progress bar to do? The progress bar is a 3 CSS pixel high solid color bar, on top of the ...
How many JavaScript frameworks do you need to make a landing page? 10 Aug 2013 | 08:16 pm
The answer to this question is, of course, 0. Zero, nada, zilch. Here’s the new landing page we made for our Time Tracking Software, Freckle: While there is some interactivity going on, there simply...
How to not write a letter to your paying customers 7 Jul 2013 | 07:52 pm
Yesterday, I received an email from Boxee, which was recently acquired by Samsung. It’s one of the worst written emails from a company that I ever received (and I get plenty of email!). Let’s have a ...
Metrics you should actually track in your SaaS business—and how 13 Jun 2013 | 05:08 am
If you run a business of any kind, it’s hard to get lost in the ocean of data available to you. What should you track? And how can you act on it? My presentation from BaconBiz Conf in May will help yo...
3 new HTTP headers that we actually need 9 Jun 2013 | 07:42 pm
The World Wide Web has been one of the greatest revolutions in history in how we humans access information. Sadly, the protocol used for transmission of this information (HTTP) lacks an understanding ...
Embedding Canvas and SVG charts in emails 30 Apr 2013 | 07:44 pm
In our app Freckle Time Tracking we’re sending out weekly reports to users by email, reporting to them what they achieved last week. Our emails not only include a report, listing all entries they logg...
Zepto 1.0 4 Mar 2013 | 09:26 pm
Party like it’s one-oh! Zepto, the jQuery-compatible JavaScript micro-library for modern browsers, is now available in version 1.0. Looking back at the first release, back in October 2010, Zepto has c...
Client-side MVC is not a silver bullet 26 Feb 2013 | 06:36 am
This is an edited repost of a comment of mine on Amy’s blog post about why we shut down Charm. Charm, as it is, is using Backbone.js, Underscore.js and Zepto on the front-end, and Rails 2.3, Postgres,...
Menubar productivity 23 Feb 2013 | 08:08 pm
OS X is awesome and that’s why we (neckbeard-less?) developers love it. Of course not everything is perfect, and one area of contention is the menu bar. There tends to be a never-ending supply of icon...
Running a SaaS? Here are some services you’ll find useful 17 Feb 2013 | 03:45 am
This December, our Time Tracking app Freckle will turn five. I’ve learned a lot about running a SaaS over these years, from making the right business decisions to choosing the technology to go with th...
