Electric Mind Control Blog

I was updating a site that was built using prototypejs, and needed an image carousel element.  I ran across the prototype-ui project, which has just the right kind of code.  While the documentation seems pretty good, there was no obvious (to me) “bare-bones” demo that I could peek at to see how to set up a basic carousel.  So, I made one, and put it up here: Prototype-UI Carousel Bare Bones Demo/Tutorial

The New Denver Ad Club hosted Jason Fried of 37signals the other night (Thursday, 7/31/08).  I convinced a couple of folks from the o2 Group to come along and listen to what he had to say.

It was a bit funny, watching the schism between product-centric people like Jason and client-services people (like most agency people) flare up.  However, I find that a lot of what Jason talked about was what I tend to agitate for when starting new client relationships.  Client-services people are generally terrified of saying things like “We think we can do something great for $X, let’s get started”.  My thinking is that if you do good work, and are worth what you’re getting paid, this can serve as a great filter for clients and projects.  Clients that want everything specced out, discussed, wire-framed, etc, before they open their checkbook are just asking for free work.

I managed to get a decent audio recording on my laptop, and took some notes.  Here are the notes and audio.  Perhaps I’ll add more commentary later:

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