The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
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I just submitted the last chapter of a super-awesome new book project I’m doing with Mike Alexander. Submitting the last chapter is always a great feeling. I have no idea when it will be available, but I’ll be pimping it right here when I know. It’s a formulas book, and did I mention that it’s super-awesome?
Last month was the 10 year anniversary of DDoE. Wow, ten years feels like a long time. The only way to see the first post from March 2004 is in the wayback machine. It was lost in the great data loss event of a couple years ago. I had designs to restore all the lost posts, but it has not happened. I still have hope that will happen.
That first post was about summing between two dates. It was the old trick where you sum less than the greater date and subtract the sum of less than the lesser date. Now that Excel has SUMIFS, that trick is obsolete. That may be why I’m not so eager to get it back online.
Did you know that DDoE was originally at dicks-blog.com? John Walkenbach convinced me to start a blog during a trip to Seattle back in the day. We came up with the URL at the bar. I think he was trying to make hyphens more socially acceptable in URLs. The early aughts were a strange time.
If you follow DDoE, you know we’ve had some trouble here of late. Something has been spiking the memory and shutting down MySQL. It hasn’t happened in a while, but that may be because there hasn’t been much activity. Hopefully all that’s behind us. Thanks to Jeff Weir and the other contributors for all the posts they’ve made.
I’ve got several posts queued up (including one on keyboard shortcuts if you can believe that) so stay tuned for those and an announcement on when the new book will be hitting the shelves.
Erika Trautman is the CEO of Rapt Media. Cassette tapes, 8-tracks, and … Flash. All three of these mediums need a player to work, and all three mediums are either dead or dying. Just as CDs replaced tapes as a more efficient means of playing music, and digital files replaced CDs to do the same, HTML5 is making Flash obsolete. The HTML5 versus Flash debate has been a hot topic among Web developers for years – and even more so since Steve Jobs published his now infamous 2010 letter touting HTML5 as the future and Flash as “no longer necessary.”…
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11 Android apps to make notifications more interesting
Apr19
on April 19, 2014
at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, chat head, evergreen, messaging, notifications, Product Reviews, Roundups
I love Android as much as the next non-Apple owning guy, but there are times when I get bored of using the same old operating system, and seeing the same boring old notifications. Thankfully, there’s no shortage of different ways to liven things up without having to root your phone, or in some cases, even spend a penny. Sure, Facebook’s chat-head style notifications set a trend for a bobble-headed approach, but that’s not the only way you can modify how you get informed about new events, and for older handsets that haven’t been gifted with features like lock screen widgets…
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