“Playing with type” article discusses some of the issues related to typography and typesetting, and how to work around those. Â Some of the services mentioned are:
Update (November 15, 2018): Also have a look at this tool.
Category: Web work
These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.
The Trello Tech Stack
The Fog Creek blog has a lengthy post explaining the technology stack behind their Trello project management tool. Â It mentions all the fancy buzz words from NodeJS and WebSockets to Redis and MongoDB. Â An interesting read overall.
Rogue Wave Software acquires Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies, the company behind PHP, has been acquired by Rogue Wave Software. Â This sounds like huge news, except that I have no idea about who Rogue Wave Software are, what they do, and what’s their plan in regards to PHP. Â Sure, the announcement suggests that they’ll help to push PHP technology into the enterprise. Â But, I guess, that remains to be seen.
Congratulations and kudos to Zend Technologies for all the work they’ve done so far.
move fast & break nothing
An interesting talk by GitHubber Zach Holman on code, teams and process – “move fast & break nothing“. Â It covers everything from DO’s and DONT’s, tools, and even Blue Angels jet fighter flying squad. Â (Check the link above for slides and transcript, if video is not your thing).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l288f7oMCEU
Top 10 companies winning at remote work culture and their secrets
Remote work is a complex subject. Â More and more individuals want to do it, yet very few companies offer it. Â Communications, project management, knowledge sharing, remunerations, time tracking, team building – are just some of the issues.
Here’s the list of 10 companies that are very successful with their remote work cultures (read the article for details):
- Automattic (aka “the WordPress people”)
- Buffer
- Zapier
- Groove
- Basecamp
- Baremetrics
- Treehouse
- InVision
- Help Scout
- CloudPeeps