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Is a Social Intranet Useful for Technology Teams?

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Our technology team been forever searching for a good way to capture knowledge (things like discussions, ideas, tips & tricks, technical documentation, etc). Seems simple, yet a good system to capture all this knowledge proved to be surprisingly elusive.

Why is it So Hard to Give Negative Feedback?

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People often say that a good indicator of a healthy team is the willingness of its members to give feedback (and vice versa). Let’s parse this out.

IntelliJ IDEA Dark Theme

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For whatever reason, dark IDE themes are all the rage these days. Somewhat surprisingly, there aren’t a lot of great options available for IntelliJ IDEA. So, I decided to make one.

Goodbye Original iPad

Yesterday, Apple announced a new version of its iOS operating system. It’s got a plethora of features and some are actually pretty interesting. In fact, as an iPhone user, I’m kinda looking forward to it. However, as an iPad user, I’m bummed.

Facebook Launches Google Ad Campaign to Raise Stock Price

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BREAKING NEWS: In an effort to increase public awareness of its recent IPO, Facebook has just announced a massive advertising campaign using Google’s AdWords platform

Prove Me Right

Do you frequently find yourself arguing with people who are more informed and/or smarter than you? Prove Me Right’s unique service can help!

Getting DRY With Sass

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Sass is a language / framework which compiles down to CSS. The thing I like most about Sass is how it helps you apply the DRY principle to your style sheets. If you use it well, you can drastically cut down “copy-and-paste” code and actually get reasonably maintainable CSS to work with.

Code Review Gone Bad

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“Hi Mike, I just wanted to once again apologize for yesterday’s code review. I said and did some things I’m not very proud of…”

XML Databases

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JSON-oriented document stores like Mongo and Couch have really become the darlings of the web application crowd. Of course, JSON (or BSON) isn’t the only game in town. When it comes to document store formats, the other white meat if you will is XML.

How to Use WordPress Custom Post Types to Add Events to Your Site

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One of the more interesting (and useful) features in WordPress is custom post types. As the name suggests, WordPress allows you to define your own post types which are treated just like existing ones (i.e. Posts and Pages).

How to Get IE8 to Support HTML5 Tags and Web Fonts

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Though support for modern standards is limited in IE8, it’s not impossible. Here’s how to add support for HTML5 elements and web fonts.