Do you think the designers of the Gap logo aren't aware of Dribbble and Twitter? Imagine how you'd feel if you received this kind of feedback on this grand a scale. You'd probably stop designing forever (and no, that's not what we want the Gap logo designers to do).
There is a proper way to provide constructive feedback. The proper way is not to make a logo that says "Crap" instead of Gap. That's not clever or funny, it's hurtful and pointless. …
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I'm just enjoying all of Rashida Jones ‘ old Gap commercials. ( Give Stripes , Young & Pretty in Cords , Everybody in Vests )
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- Zach Inglis: Weekly Round Up: 17th October 2010
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I was really excited by Yehuda Katz's talk " Bridging The Gap - Using Rails To Write Dry Rich Client Applications" as this is was I am evangelizing since years, use Rails as an API with all the goodies it has to offer and create "fatter" client applications that are more compelling to use. Yehuda made a compelling presentation on what's great about Rails beyond the view layer and pointed out that just saying use REST wasn't enough to …
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- 80beans: Slides for my presentation at Fronteers
…Konstantin Guericke said at one of our soapboxes : " If Gap can figure out how to take money from the customers on my site by advertising but I cannot, there's something wrong here. "
We've achieved a 10% conversion rate with Verify in the first month after launch. That is 10% of everybody who visited our site actually paid us money for a plan. This was phenomenal. Since then the conversion has crept up significantly. We had many questions from people …
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…released. It's one of my favourite games for the iDevices yet.
GapBodyFit - Gap release yet another ugly logo.
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- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #086: 07/08/2009
Do you think the designers of the Gap logo aren't aware of Dribbble and Twitter? Imagine how you'd feel if you received this kind of feedback on this grand a scale. You'd probably stop designing forever (and no, that's not what we want the Gap logo designers to do).
There is a proper way to provide constructive feedback. The proper way is not to make a logo that says "Crap" instead of Gap. That's not clever or funny, it's hurtful and pointless. …
…website service which is free to use but has Gap t-shirt ads on it - it means that Gap has figured out how to get money from your website visitors but you have not. That's kind of sad. Everyone's goal should be to create something of value that people would pay for. Relying solely on advertising is a bad idea.
The discussion continued with Konstantin sharing more tips on getting consumers to pay a subscription fee, technological challenges to overcome, as well as what we can expect …
- danieltenner.com: How to make your application viral
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- I can't code! Now what?: Rails can't scale alone.
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- Dalibor Nasevic: Announcing MK Ruby Users Group (ruby.mk)
…client-side DOM issues.
JavaScript Encryption and Decryption - I may actually have a client use for this technique. AES in JavaScript.
FireSass Bridges the Gap Between Sass and Firebug - And gives you Sass line numbers to debug from.
kilt - Growl integration for Pivotal Tracker projects.
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- Justin Leitgeb: iPhone app development with Ruby web services
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- : Rails 2.3.4 and SWFUpload - Rack Middleware for Flash Uploads that Degrade Gracefully
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #094: 10/02/2009