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Basecamp integration in Springloops stopped working

January 29th, 2010 Marc-André 3 comments

Since the new 37signals ID has been implemented, the Basecamp integration in Springloops stopped working. I did not had much time to look into it and it was was not a high priority so I put it at the bottom of the pile. But recently we started a new project and needed to link its Springloops project with the Basecamp project. And we could not. So I had to dig a little bit into the problem. I explained the problem via email to the excellent Support team of Springloops and they answered me in 5 minutes. WOW! That’s a hot customer service!

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Categories: Web Tags: basecamp, springloops

New in Highrise: Searching for cases and deals now in Search Sidebar

January 28th, 2010 Marc-André No comments

Man! I don’t even have time to blog about the latest new feature of Highrise that a new one is launched already! It really seems that the New way of working at 37signals is paying off! Nearly 24 hours after announcing the all new 37signals Answers, a brilliant revamp of their customer forums, a nice new little feature has been introduced in Highrise: it is now possible to search for Cases or Deals in the handy sidebar search.

I personally use the sidebar search multiple times each day. It’s the first place I look when I need to find something. Previously, this search box was only looking for contacts but now, it also looks for cases and deals.

You can read the official blog post here.

Categories: Web Tags: 37signals, highrise

ImpressCMS Persistable Framework at Confoo.ca

January 21st, 2010 Marc-André No comments

On March 11th, I will have the honor of presenting the ImpressCMS Persistable Framework (IPF) at the first Confoo.ca Conference in Montreal. Confoo.ca is an evolution of the well known PHP Québec conference which I have attended each year for the last few years. This year, it will not be only about PHP, but also about Python, Ruby and Java. It promises to be another great success!

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Categories: Web Tags: conference, confoo

Highrise improvements: Email Notifications, Daily Digests, Dropbox vCards

January 17th, 2010 Marc-André No comments

Every other week or so, when I log in to one of my 37signals’s product account, I always get some nice surprise: new features, small or not so small improvements, always nice things to kick start my day with a smile! Last week, it was the Freshbooks gang who did this, but today, it was 37signals and their Highrise CRM product. They introduced 3 very nice new features, that, yet again, will make our life easier!

First, you can now notify people on your team when you add a new note to a contact. So let’s say you talked to a prospect and, of course, you are documenting it on your Highrise account, and you want a Project Manager to be informed that the deal is soon to be closed. Simply select the name of that person in the note’s option and you’re all set !

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Categories: Business, Web Tags: 37signals, highrise

Facebook phishing attempt

January 17th, 2010 Marc-André No comments

People are getting more and more creative when it comes to fraud other people. And with today’s Web technologies, there are 1000 ways to lure people and try to hijack their accounts, stole their money, etc…

Today, I received what seems to be a normal email from Facebook. Someone named Linda asking if we were knowing each other:

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Categories: Web Tags: facebook, phishing

Top 20 posts of 2009 at Signal vs. Noise

January 6th, 2010 Marc-André No comments

People who know me for a little while already know I’m a big fan of 37signals. I think pretty much everything they do is absolutely awesome. I was already using their products since 2006 but it’s only last summer that I read their book, Getting Real. I kind of already knew those people had interesting ideas, but after reading that book, I knew these people really had thoughts that deserve my attention :-) . So I started to learn more and more about them, their ideas, their methods, etc. I’m also a big fan of their blog Signal vs. Noise. And recently, they published the top 20 posts of 2009. It’s really worth reading, trust me.

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Categories: Business, Web Tags: 37signals

Using TwitterFeed to integrate our blog with Twitter

August 1st, 2009 Marc-André No comments

TwitterFeedI have just integrated NotreVie.ca with TwitterFeed, a free service that sends updates from a Website to a Twitter account. It basically links to any RSS feed and send new items on a regular basis to Twitter.

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Categories: Web Tags: twitter

Quick blog post to test MailChimp!

July 30th, 2009 Marc-André No comments

So, if I setup the campaign correctly on MailChimp, James and I should receive a newsletter Friday morning with this new post. All automatically, through the magic of MailChimp!

This product is absolutely awesome !!! And guess which Montreal based Web development company will soon be proposing this service to its client ?

Categories: Web Tags: mailchimp