http://www.devtaxi.com Destination: your objectives! Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:49:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those who know me a bit, I tend to come up with crazy (new) product ideas every now and then. As I'm not able to either fund, manage, sell or develop 2% of them, I decided to start posting them on my blog. Everybody is free to grab the ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/09/04/product-idea-download-the-billboard-automatically/ A few quotes from these interesting notes taken by Evelyn Rodriguez at a presentation given on Jan 8, 2003 to Silicon Valley Product Management Association by Google Product Manager Marissa Mayer : Generate and capitalize on network effects Small, agile engineering teams User centered designs Product discussion meeting - like a brainstorming session - every ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/09/03/9-product-management-quotes/ Ok, this is my most stupid post, but I had fun, really! I just upgraded to Snow Leopard. I use the Dashbaord and Desktop shortcuts in Exposé, they are configured to be triggered by the side buttons on my mouse. I just found out that pressing Shift at the same time ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/09/02/snow-leopard-window-dance-with-expose/ I'm currently studying how to categorize UGC (user generated content) on social networks. One of my main issue is not choosing or creating the categories, but rather making sure authors will a) use the categories and b) find the right one easily. I have not taken any final decision yet, ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/08/12/ehowcom-how-to-not-know-how-to-categorize/ This simple Javascript snippet will bind the focus event to any element that has a "clearSearch" css class. On focus, the field is emptied if it is the default value. On blur, it will put back the default value if nothing was entered. Very simple and unobtrusive. You can use ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/04/23/automatically-empty-a-search-box-on-focus-with-jquery/ After my post on the Prototype Cheat Sheet, here is one for jQuery: jQuery Cheat Sheet. We have shifted to jQuery in our framework and enjoy it a lot lately. http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/04/22/jquery-cheat-sheet/ I am starting a research to find the best web based agile project management tool. Please send me your suggestions in the comments, I will start a list and add my evaluation of each as I try them out. I will publish a report at the end of the research. ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/03/18/research-on-agile-project-management-web-tools/ Piria, a product development company, with its Labs in Montreal, focuses in Rich Internet Applications and Social Networking development. We create usable applications through innovation and creative research on emerging technologies. Piria is looking for a motivated and experienced developer, interested in learning and working with the latest technologies in development ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2009/01/06/piria-is-hiring-an-advanced-oop-php5-developer-in-montreal/ Here's a screenshot of the country autocomplete. I've created this simple add-on using the very good jQuery autocomplete plugin. Full code, demo and documentation. http://www.devtaxi.com/2008/12/21/country-jquery-autocomplete-plugin/ We're proud to launch our beta version of rombla, our visual website builder that allows designers to create websites and share them with their customers. With the community features we added between alpha and beta, you can now share a site with your anyone. You can also share your design ... http://www.devtaxi.com/2008/11/17/rombla-a-visual-website-builder/