Standards in form fields

As I mentioned in a previous post, I wish there was some standard or convention or consensus on what values to attach to the name attribute of common input elements. I thought it would be a good idea to open up a thread to devote to this very thing, so feel free to add your… Continue reading Standards in form fields

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Rebranding

Since the start of the year, my full-time position has been evolving. A previous employee in our department was charged with fraud last fall. As a result, many of the policies in our department needed to change. Our department is a small (four employees) IT department in one of the faculties at the University of… Continue reading Rebranding

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Reply by chat in GMail

Google has released a new feature in GMail: reply by chat. I have wanted to do this numerous times. On the surface it looks cool, to be able to see someone who has sent you email is online. There’s more however; it also groups the resulting chat log in with the email conversation. Very cool.