fretlessjazz

Hey there-- James from Dasheroo here. We're looking into the iOS scrolling issues on our homepage; sorry for the inconvenience!

It's pretty smart, actually. They don't want to ruin their SEO.

I run Rails and became tired of seeing 404s to standard ASP or PHP software (such as phpmyadmin), so I added this to our Apache conf:

RewriteRule \.(asp|aspx|php|jsp)$ - [F,L,NC]

RewriteRule (w00tw00t) - [F,L,NC]

RewriteRule (phpmyadmin) - [F,L,NC]

RewriteRule (php-my-admin) - [F,L,NC]

That cuts off those requests before they hit a Rails process and suck up any additional resources.

My first customer came from my own personal network as well.

The first customer that did _not_ come from my personal network was a result of posting to app directories such as feedmyapp.com and the like.

The best advice I can give on signing and keeping your first customer is to _make them happy_. Be nice. Crack jokes. When they call or email you, respond immediately. Your first customers are really important because they're vetting your business model in addition to trying your product.

Accept/understand that, as you observe your first customers interacting with your product, you're going to have to make changes. Make them quickly and reasonably.

Every company is unique, but that's how I found and retained my first customers.

I'm not a design genius-- but when I saw Gap's new logo I think I knew what they were going for, and imho I doubt it was created haphazardly. The new logo is exemplary of the transition of "best practice" design principles from print to electronic media.

They unabashedly violated two rules of logo and print media design, and it's so blatant that I can't believe it was an accident. Their logo features a gradient (print-media epic fail), and two low-contrast overlapping colors, the P and the background square (also a print-media epic fail).

I hope that the executives do not knee-jerk a reaction and demand a logo redesign, but instead play out the campaign and see how it pans out. I'm not convinced it was a mistake.

Perhaps the real redesign wasn't the logo, but their website and online presence?

2 days late; not sure if you'll still get a chance to read this. But, I'll bite.

As someone who's hired (good and bad) engineers in both UI/UX and back-end disciplines, my first impression of it was "Yeah, it's not pretty, but he does not allege to be a designer." At that point, I checked out the source code. It was not spectacular, but he did communicate an working grasp of the technology he professed to understand.

If this resume was judged in a biased lean towards UI/UX, my opinion is that you'd be passing up a potentially hard-working and dedicated employee. With a little help from a designer, this guy could possibly do great things.

Many engineers are not designers, and should not be judged as such. Constructive criticism is more helpful here than lambasting them for not adhering to your personal standards of UX.

Everyone who tried to convince me that (vim|emacs) is better than (vim|emacs) was wrong