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My first post using Posterous

March 19th, 2010 Marc-André No comments
Recently, I was listening to a net@night podcast with Guy Kawasaki and he mentionned he was using a Posterous blog as part of its marketing/tweeting strategy. Basically, he's using AllTop to gather interesting news and then he's blogging about those in a Posterous blog, which then gets automatically tweeted. It's a great way to do it! So I thought I should try it! Exactly what I've been doing this morning.

I created an account on Posterous: http://marcan.posterous.com. I linked this account to my Twitter account, as well as my professional blog: http://malanciault.com.

I'm now actually writing this in an email which will be sent to my posterous email dropbox. If everything works as it should, this should create a new post on marcan.posterous.com, it should then get tweeted on my Twitter account, and then posted on malanciault.com. Oh, and it will also be posted on my Facebook account as I'm using the Twitter App on Facebook to automatically post my tweets on my Facebook account.

Fiew ! Round of applause for the Web 2.0 !

Now let's see how this will work. Hitting the Send button now…

Posted via email from Marc-André Lanciault

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I got my copy of REWORK!

March 13th, 2010 Marc-André No comments

Well, I was waiting this for a long time! After 3 amazing days at the Confoo conference, I got home yesterday evening, tired but the head full of new ideas and techniques I’ve heard about at the conference. I stopped by to check the mailbox. There was a key in our box. This means that a package was waiting for me in the other bigger mailbox. I opened it and here it was, the long awaited book we’ve all been waiting for: REWORK!

If you are even only remotely involved in web technologies or web business, you probably already heard about this book by 37signals Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. If not, well, what are you waiting for ? Have a look here.

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Categories: Business Tags: 37signals, REWORK

Importing ImpressCMS SVN repository on SourceForge

March 5th, 2010 Marc-André 1 comment

Since a little bit more then a year, we were using the services of CVSDude (which has now become Codesion) for the SVN repositories and Trac instances of ImpressCMS. When we first created ImpressCMS, we were using SourceForge: for these things but at that time, SourceForge features were not meeting our needs. Plus, they did not have Trac. This explained our choice of using CVSDude.

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Categories: Web Tags: ImpressCMS, sourceforge, subversion

Weird borders in Firefox

March 1st, 2010 Marc-André No comments

Since a few weeks, I’ve been seeing some weird borders in forms of some sites I’m using a lot, like Highrise and Freshbooks. At first, it only occurred in Highrise so I thought it might be a side effect of one of the updates 37signals are making every 2 weeks or so. I contacted them and they did not seem to have a clue what it was. Weird. If it was specific to Highrise, others would have reported it and 37signals would have fixed it. As it was not a biggie, I let it go.

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Categories: Web Tags: firefox