All work and no play makes email a something something

I used to send detailed, quality emails. Then I started having a lot of work to do. Then I had a baby.

2006:


Hi Bob,

Many thanks for your comment. We're actively working on a 
solution and hope to have it released within the next week. 
Please contact me if you have any further comments or concerns.

Best Regards,
Jonas

2008:


Hi Bob,

Thanks for the info, we're working on it, and should have a fix out soon.

Best,
Jonas

2009:


Thanks Bob fix is pending -
Jonas

2010:


ok working on it thx

2011:


ok

July 12, 2011 – 1:43 pm | By Jonas | Posted in Life | Comments (1)

Building a site with Symphony CMS, Part 3

Hello budding Symphonists, and welcome to the long-delayed part 3 of our tutorial series! In the last episode, we did some relatively mundane work prepping the structure of our portfolio website. Part 3′s where we crank up the fun and dive into Pages, Data Sources, XML, XSLT, and maybe some other wicked sweet acronyms. Our …

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April 6, 2011 – 7:42 pm | By Jonas | Posted in Symphony CMS, Web | Comments (7)

This Ephemeral Year

The Project See it live. And don’t use IE. I haven’t tested it and I’m not going to! The Story In 2010, I rebuilt my website. As usual, I overloaded this project with far too many technology changes, forcing me to learn tons of new stuff before I could do any real work. I also …

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February 7, 2011 – 7:50 am | By Jonas | Posted in Charts, Data, Life, Web | Comments (5)

Boxee Box first impressions

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November 13, 2010 – 1:42 pm | By Jonas | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Why can’t I be honest with real people?

Yesterday I wrote a tweet questioning why I feel free to express myself on Twitter in the digital company of a bunch of strangers, yet I feel comparatively guarded and closed off on Facebook, which connects me to the majority of the people I actually know in real life. I received some interesting responses, but …

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November 10, 2010 – 2:53 am | By Jonas | Posted in Life, Web | Comments (6)

Building a site with Symphony CMS, Part 2

Greetings! In our last episode we completed a Symphony CMS installation and loaded some nice bits of additional functionality with Extensions and XSLT Utilities. Finally, it’s time to get our hands dirty and build something. The demo site I’m building will be visible at symdemo.rocketfoo.com. Before we begin, please note that since our last post, …

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July 31, 2010 – 5:44 pm | By Jonas | Posted in Symphony CMS, Web | Comments (15)

In Defense of Crappy Tools

Jason Santa Maria wrote a well-reasoned piece in which he laments the state of web design authoring tools. In a nut: current tools are inadequate, originally built for print design or outmoded metaphors, and each does only one or two things we really need. They are, essentially, obstacles that slow down our work and require …

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July 26, 2010 – 8:05 pm | By Jonas | Posted in Productivity, Web | Comments (0)

Building a site with Symphony CMS, Part 1

As promised, I’m going to take you on a walkthrough of building a new site with Symphony CMS. I’ll be referring to my new personal site to demonstrate some functional examples. If you’re not sure why you should use Symphony, have a look at my previous post and then check out the Symphony beginner’s guide. …

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July 10, 2010 – 12:41 pm | By Jonas | Posted in Symphony CMS, Web | Comments (11)

21st Century Inspiration

I’ve been thinking about creative method and inspiration recently, mainly because I’m finally tackling a big project, but also due to my recent induction into Dribbble. To be clear, I think Dribbble is wonderful, for many of the same reasons Twitter is wonderful; it provides a wee goon such as myself an opportunity to share …

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June 27, 2010 – 8:29 pm | By Jonas | Posted in Life, Productivity, Web | Comments (0)

You should use Symphony CMS, right now.

I’m a web content management junkie. Over the years I’ve used Textpattern, ExpressionEngine, Drupal, and WordPress, but none have fit my fancy as much as my recent love, Symphony. Symphony is a beautifully minimal PHP+MySQL-based CMS that uses XML as its backbone. More on that in a minute. More than any of the other systems …

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May 23, 2010 – 1:34 pm | By Jonas | Posted in Data, Web | Comments (7)