2. Quit Inviting Everyone to the Meeting, Especially at the Wrong Time, Which Happens All the Time
Having more than a handful of people involved results in feedback from those that have no stake in the project. People will bombard the designer with feedback because they feel as if they have to contribute. Worse, it doesn't help move the project forward at all because the designer will be integrating feedback that won't improve the product.
Solution:
Target specific people on …
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In our app Freckle Time Tracking we're sending out weekly reports to users by email, reporting to them what they achieved last week.
Our emails not only include a report, listing all entries they logged, but also our " Mini-Pulse", a graphical representation of how much they worked for each project.
Here's how a typical email we send out looks like:
Now, generating a table and styling it for the HTML email is (relatively) easy, and beyond the scope of this …
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…continually experimenting with ways to improve our focus time, reduce meetings, improve communication, and ship our code faster to our customers. If you'd love to be a part of our team, please look at newrelic.com/jobs .
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…callable object as argument. This is to avoid issues when trying to declare a scope with some sort of Time argument:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base scope :published_last_week , where ( 'published_at >= ?' , 1 . week . ago ) end
Because this won't work as expected: 1.week.ago will be evaluated when the class is loaded, not every time the scope is called.
Scopes are just class methods
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Here's one way I solved this in Freckle Time Tracking :
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