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June 09, 2008

Basecamp

BasecampBasecamp - we use it.. We love it. I don't know how we would manage the few clients we have without it. What is it? I would call it a project collaboration system. Why is it good? It's web based, it's inexpensive, it works, it's simple, it makes us more productive, it makes us look more professional. It lets you share ideas, files, notes, messages, etc. with your clients. It has RSS feeds and built in chat. It JUST WORKS! Check it out.

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January 23, 2008

Google Calendar published in different languages

cordon-bleu-new.jpgWe really believe in leveraging third party (read FREE) tools into our projects. Google is really great at providing applications that can be integrated with websites - like their calendar. As we develop the new site for the Cordon Bleu Cooking School of Florence (old site!), we are utilizing blogger.com, feedburner.com, and the Google Calendar. One issue we had was being able to display the daily course schedule in English and Italian to end users, but to have the admin(s) only maintain one calendar.

After some searching we found a post on the Google Calendar Help group that solved our problem: you can append to the end of the iframe tag (used to embed your calendar into an html page) a language parameter that will force the calendar to display in the specified language. The code is &hl=(2 letter code) - or for example for German the code would be: &hl=de There are also some additional variables.

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June 05, 2007

MT 4.0

I am very excited about this news - Movable Type 4.0 Beta Launches, Platform To Be Open Sourced - can't imagine how this can be anything but good news. Maybe we will finally see some e-commerce functionality and better community building tools coming out of independent MT developers now.

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May 06, 2007

Rescue Time

logo.jpgWe have been having a hard time with time management - tracking your hours and minutes can be difficult, especially when you are running several small projects at once and working on them all in one day. Right now we are using myhours.com - but this imminent offering from Rescue Time looks very interesting. We have signed up to hear about the launch and will be checking it out once it does.

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