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Category Archives: amazon
NOT DEAD YET
We just finished with Target Multi-Occasion Lists. That was interesting because I got to work with the Yahoo User Interface library (YUI). What fascinated me the most is how many browser bugs haven’t been abstracted away yet. We ran into … Continue reading
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we launched Timex!
Now it can be told. For the last 5 months I’ve been working with the development team on the new Timex website. We launched on Tuesday afternoon [EDIT: October 24, 2006] at 4:00 pm Pacific time, and it was kind … Continue reading
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More about CSS
I’ve changed my mind about the CSS on our site. It was explained to me that the move to CSS was such a major paradigm shift for our organization that everyone is to be congratulated on how well it turned … Continue reading
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Down in the Software Mines
So my dad, he sez, how’s it goin? And I’m like hmmm.Haven’t updated the weblog in a while. We are launching a merchant site in about 2 weeks, so we’re doing all the typical last-minute bug fixes. Everyone seems to … Continue reading
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And you thought /your/ project had problems!
So why wasn’t Sinistar [for Atari 400/800] released? Around the time Sinistar was being completed (mid 1984), the video game market was crumbling fast and many games were canceled. Apparently marketing decided that the game wasn’t going to make enough … Continue reading
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I LOVE WORKING UNDER PPPPPRESSURE
I promised to deliver some unspecified “changes” to the global CSS by tomorrow morning. The graphic designer (Customer Experience lead) is going to review the site over the next few days — she’s leaving the company and we can’t stall … Continue reading
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Frustration of being a newbie
This must be how it feels to be a 70-year-old starting at McDonalds. I’m the only webdev on a team of engineers. They don’t talk down to me, which is awesome, but they usually don’t have to explain the things … Continue reading
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"Ajax"
I put quotes around the term in feeble protest against the buzzword AJAX.[1] (Ajaxian Blog is as good a source as any for reading up on it.) Yes, it’s an important concept. Perhaps it’s the hype that bugs me. If … Continue reading
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