Who is Peter Wilt, you might ask? Probably one of the more successful soccer executives in the U.S.A. He managed the Chicago Fire for eight years and is regarded as a very fan friendly and intelligent. Over on Pitch Invasion, he shares his Soccer Management Philosophy. His ideas for how to run the front office […]
How can this be? My own adidas related spending is up 350% since Dec 12th of 2008. Clearly its not enough. Also, it really annoys me when companies complain that profits are down. Maybe Adidas should take a page out of Valve’s pricing playbook. BBC NEWS | Business | Adidas sees profits plunge by 95%
I’m hoping that immigration reform happens sooner rather than later. In the meantime, some positive news about the effects of immigration on the “underclass” was released today by the Cato Institute. Free Trade Bulletin no. 38: As Immigrants Move In, Americans Move Up | Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies As plausible as the argument
I had suspected as much, but tivoblog crunches the numbers to compare the cost of TiVo versus a Cable company DVR. The monthly costs come out slightly in TiVo’s favor, but does it justify the initial hardware investment? This is where TiVo could really make the case that it offers more services, like Amazon and
Going from a consultant on the outside to a developer on the inside, I can’t agree more that there’s a lot more work to do once you launch a site. Since we relaunched our website at work in March, there have been a number of things we’ve had to change based because of how users
There are a lot of cases where having one computer just isn’t enough. If you’re a web developer or webmaster, you’ll want to view your website in more than one browser. If you’re a PHP programmer, you may be itching to check out the new 5.3 release and test your web applications on it. Using
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The USA’s run in the Confederations Cup got the beautiful game some coverage on the Colbert Report. He asks if its time to care about soccer.
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Add it to your aliases, this one liner adds all unrecognized files in the current directory (preceded by ? in svn status) to a svn project. svn st | grep ‘^?’ | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 7 | xargs svn add
The single easiest improvements you can make to the usability of HTML Forms is to correctly use LABELs. And it helps all users, not just a subset. Its also a nice application of Fitt’s Law s Use the label element to make your HTML forms accessible | 456 Berea Street When checkboxes and radio buttons
If you’re not familiar with them, anonymous functions seem to be a term of art that very advanced programmers throw around to make others feel dumb. Until now, my closest experience has been in using them with jQuery and javascript, but tonight I found a use for them in PHP. If you don’t read
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