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New York City is not exepnsive, and other stories

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Slava

A few years ago I met people behind many-eyes visualization project from IBM. Today, inspired by other things I have seen in the labs I decided to see what their site (http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com) has been up to. Always consumed by price … Continue reading →

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forgot my password, so…

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Slava

I forgot my admin password on wordpress. I know, it is silly, but I reset it to something and then promptly forgot.What followed, was a sad comedy of errors and a small ode to open source. For long version, see … Continue reading →

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Highrise feature request

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Slava

Now that I am a paying customer for highrise (highrisehq.com) I can request features, right? :) I am trying to figure out how best to use the “deals” feature, and it would be really great if I could surface emails/notes … Continue reading →

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Examples vs OOTB

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Slava

Best Practices and examples are probably more important and useful than out of the box software. Once I see how something is done, it is usually pretty cheap to repeat and customized to my needs. Out of the box, most … Continue reading →

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