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Posts Tagged Daily Grind

Customer Communications

I spend a lot of time at work thinking about ways to improve the ways our clients communicate with their customers. This can mean things like how we assemble emails, what sorts of subject lines we use, it can mean making sure that unsubcribe links are clear, and that the customer feels in control [...]


On The Failure Of Recommendation Engines

Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,
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Throw The Switch Igor! Throw the Fucking Switch!

Not that most of you are going to care terribly much, but the project that has been eating my life for the last few months went live today, in a more-or-less pain free manner. There’s been a few minor tweaks, but nothing has fallen over, nothing has broken, and no-one is running around like [...]


On Frameworks

I start to understand why there are so bloody many web application frameworks out there. I need to get a really basic website up and running fast. I have two choices: spend some time evaluating various frameworks that are actually about 70 times more complex than I need, learning how they work, and [...]


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