Dave Ramsey is a fantastic businessman with an approach to businesses and finances that eschews what works over what’s hot. Given Wall Street’s track record of late, I’d say that’s a really good thing. He’s got a good regular column called Dave Says, answering questions about personal finance and business (with a focus on entrepreneurs [...]
Read More business support, customer service, entrepreneurI don’t know why this is mind bending, but I seem to hit a wall every time I want to do page manipulations involving <select> boxes. Particularly, when I want to change the value selected. Based on the number of support posts I found, I’m clearly not alone. There are two common ways to change [...]
Read More jqueryIn a great article discussing how to demo a product to investors, Jason Calacanis says the following under the heading “The best products take less than five minutes to demo”… Steve Jobs does take the demo details to a fairly detailed level, but you and I are not Steve Jobs. There is only one Steve [...]
Read More get inspired, startupsJust discovered that comments have been borked for a bit. Sorry about that.
Read MorejQuery is awesome. The jQuery Alerts plugin is also awesome. One of the most immediate and obvious uses of the pair is presenting a spiffy confirmation box before submitting a form. For example, I recently implemented this setup on a form that ultimately deletes data. I couldn’t find a detailed example for this setup, leading [...]
Read More jqueryWhile my MS complaints are (rightly) focused on their desktop apps, I knew Microsoft would end up in this series at some point. However, even I was surprised at how quickly it happened. These guys can’t help but do stupid things in pursuit of copycatting their competitors. Here’s a screenshot several steps deep into the [...]
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