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Stack Overflow Launches

March 17, 2023 By 901am 1 Comment

Joel Spolsky has recently announced the launch of Stack Overflow, a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.

Every question in Stack Overflow is like the Wikipedia article for some extremely narrow, specific programming question. How do I enlarge a fizzbar without overwriting the user’s snibbit? This question should only appear once in the site. Duplicates should be cleaned up quickly and redirected to the original question.

Some people propose answers. Others vote on those answers. If you see the right answer, vote it up. If an answer is obviously wrong (or inferior in some way), you vote it down. Very quickly, the best answers bubble to the top. The person who asked the question in the first place also has the ability to designate one answer as the “accepted” answer, but this isn’t required. The accepted answer floats above all the other answers.

The site looks like a mashup between Digg, Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia and developer forums, not only in appearance, but also in its purpose. Stack Overflow was conceptualized with the aim of helping programmers quickly find valid and reasonable answers to the most pressing development concerns.

Joel cited the concern of finding the best answers without having to wade through pages and pages of information that are either no longer valid (because of how software and development platforms evolve through time), incorrect, or simply not the best way of doing things.

Stack Overflow has been running in beta for a few weeks, and is now open to the public. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood also have a regular Stack Overflow podcast on software development.

Originally posted on September 16, 2008 @ 9:55 pm

Filed Under: Online Community Tagged With: development, programming, social networks, social voting

gridNavigation – An Out of the Box Solution for Grid Based Interfaces

February 24, 2023 By 901am

Grid-type interfaces are almost an omnipresent navigation tool in most websites nowadays. It provides a clean and structured layout to effectively present visual data to the user. Unfortunately, its inherent structure is also one of grid’s pitfalls. As a consequence of the way data is laid out on a grid, there is this unwanted feeling of rigidness, inflexibility, and at certain extremes makes it feel boring.

Aware of the weakness of the grid, web designers have over the years tried to revitalize it. One of the more effective approaches to do this was usually through animation of grid-type interfaces through the use of flash. This works out fine for some who can easily adapt to the nuances of motion design. But to the many designers who don’t have the time to study and learn flash while keeping their heads above water, handling several projects and delivering deadlines – this is definitely not an option.

The lack of options has brought me to try several flash components to ease the pain of creating a professional looking animated grid interface. This is when I was able to try gridNavigation. It’s simply an easy-to-use and robust grid interface you can install and use as a flash component. gridNavigation displays thumbnails in a grid or pyramid like layout while allowing you to specify the exact number of rows and colums (for grid) or the position of the layout (for pyramid). Here are some of the main features of the gridNavigation component:

  • Display thumbnails of images, SWFs or movie clips in a grid or pyramid like layout
  • Built-in blur effect for smooth transitions from low res to high res content
  • Layout options: top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right
  • Number of columns and rows can be manually or automatically set when using the grid layout
  • Content, menu items and settings may be defined through XML, Component Inspector or ActionScript
  • Automatically resizes thumbnails and content to desired size
  • Option to use the same or different files for thumbnails and large content
  • Customizable zoom and easing speeds
  • Built-in skinnable preloader for thumbnails and main content
  • Supports all Flash image formats
  • ActionScript events for: onOpen, onOpenComplete, onClose, onCloseComplete
  • Comprehensive ActionScript API
  • Light weight: AS2=20Kb, AS3=32kb

Despite it being a purely grid-type interface, it allows a fairly impressive degree of customization. You can change the easing and zooming speed of the animation, specify thumbnails, external SWFs or movie clips as both thumbnail or full sized view. You can add images, SWFs or movie clips through the component inspector, or by XML or ActionScript for more dynamic data.

gridNavigation is perfect for those planning to create a photo gallery, video gallery or even as a cool interface to navigate through a whole site. With gridNavigation allowing you to create highly customizable and professional looking grid interfaces – this is definitely a must for a web designer’s arsenal of tricks.

gridNavigation costs $44.95 for the ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3 versions, or $54.95 for AS2+AS3, with an option for a $10 upgrade from the AS2 to the AS3 edition.

Disclosure: The above article is a sponsored review published upon request by Flashloaded

Originally posted on January 13, 2008 @ 5:26 pm

Filed Under: Reviews, Software Tagged With: flash, Reviews, Software

Splashpress Media acquires 901am.com

January 27, 2023 By 901am

We are pleased to announced that Splashpress Media has acquired 901am.com. We remain committed in bringing new media news throughout the day. We are currently working on moving the site to a new server. Thank you for your patience.

Originally posted on April 12, 2007 @ 6:23 pm

Filed Under: 901am updates

How To Make Money Off Your Podcast

January 14, 2023 By 901am

As podcasting continues to evolve, more and more people are starting to dive in as a means of making a profit. Not only is it possible to make some side money off a successful podcast, but some people have managed to make it their primary source of income.

Whether you’re in an industry leader who wants to share their knowledge on lead generation or simply want to connect with audience members about something deeply personal, there is certainly money to be made. The secret is knowing how to profit from your show. If you’re interested in learning more about how to make money from podcasting, then take a look at some of the different ways that you can. 

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Originally posted on July 28, 2021 @ 7:32 am

Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: make money via podcasts, podcasting, Podcasts

3 Ways To Improve Your Customer Service Department

January 13, 2023 By 901am

For all businesses, customer service is one of the most important aspects of maintaining happy customers or clients as well as having a positive public image. However, despite its importance, many businesses struggle with offering adequate customer service over the phone, online, or in person.

If this is something that your business could do better at, here are three ways that you can improve your customer service department for your business. 

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Originally posted on March 20, 2020 @ 8:41 am

Filed Under: ECommerce, Marketing Tagged With: Business, customer service, customer service department, soft skills

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