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“Really informative post. I’m also semi-embarrassed to admit that I also had never thought through the Amazon business model and that their interest float lets them sell at a lower price. ...” Clay S on Waxing Speculative about Amazon's Business…
“Jackson, that’s an excellent analogy. Well said, sir! Thanks. ” Jason Robb on The Shackles of Simplicity
“I’m really interested in your results. In my book, Flexible Web Design, I recommend line lengths of 75 to 100 characters, based on all the research I could find regarding on-screen...” Zoe Gillenwater on Testing Web Text Readability

“Hi Doug! I just want to print this article :) But the print version is yet to be fully polished. I hope you guys spend sometime :) Viget inspire is a really nice resource for me....” Lance on What To Expect When You're…
“Nice article, I mostly only build front-end for in-house projects. I really like the idea of building an element list, it had never occurred to me before. I have also started making PSD...” Erik Wallace on What To Expect When You're…
“Thanks for the info Mindy, very informative and helpful! Ive had good luck with a site called adwido, they have some cool free stuff! Check them out! http://adwido.com ” Jonathan on Switching Mindsets: From WordPress to…

“For translating strings you can use Rails I18n backend instead of using inflectors. The `typus_human_name` is a patch to fix a problem in `human_name` [1]. [1]...” Francesc Esplugas on Rails, Internationalization, and Tú
“@Dean: This isn’t an approach to do controller testing. It’s simply providing a DSL to *externally* test your web server by treating it as a black box and examining the responses...” Patrick Reagan on Test Drive mod_rewrite Rules With…
“I must have missed what about the ruby class (or your environment) makes sure that Apache is in the loop and processing rewrite rules. My scenario is that we use litespeed (with a...” Dean on Test Drive mod_rewrite Rules With…

“This report was very helpful for me. One day I have discovered through this report that Google was displaying my ads for the keyword shopping as an alternative for online trading… I have...” SEM Expert on What can the New AdWords…
“@Justin - I completely agree. I don’t think any of us were implying that the emotional branding that you can garner via Twitter will translate into actual relationships or passionate users....” Anjali Merchant on Middle School Marketing Recap: Is…
“Maybe you guys already talked about this but I’d hope that marketers today would understand that if you really wanna create passionate users you have to do more than just give someone...” Justin Thorp on Middle School Marketing Recap: Is…

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