Journal
am 27.06.2011 in Facebook, iPhone, E-Mail, RSS, Business, Kommunikation, Privatleben, Social Networks, Apple
iPhone withdrawal symptoms
My iPhone 4 was stolen last weekend. I am making a very interesting experience while living without it. Apparently I am missing only very few applications.
am 14.03.2011 in Support, Kritik
The dilemma of customer support ratings
I am really impressed with 37signals’ implementation of their Custumer Support Happiness Report. But we have found a general problem of this kind of systems after talking with a colleague of our service/support department about it.
am 10.03.2011 in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Internationalisierung, Lokalisierung
I18n translations for non Active Record models
In a current project at work I constantly need some collections of values for objects, which I like to be encapsulated. So I am using non AR models. But when it comes to translation, e.g. for select boxes, this becomes a little bit tricky. This is my approach.
am 09.03.2011 in Accessibility, Javascript, XHTML, Usability
Unobtrusive click-able boxes
The bigger the click area the better. But recurring links are kind of bad, considering SEO. Also, an anchor wrapping block-level elements should be avoided to maintain valid markup. But there is an easy way to accomplish a clean and unobtrusive Javascript solution. Below I introduce my simple to implement approach.
am 03.01.2011 in Produktivität, Kritik, E-Mail
Why e-mail filters suck
Some Inbox Zero beginners tend to auto-filter mails out of their inbox into a set of sub-folders. But this is not processing but complicating e-mail.