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> One gotcha is that you won't get any CSS this way, so all styling has to be done via SVG props. There actually is a way to bake stylesheets directly into the SVG in a way that at…

Xively was one of the services we used as inspiration for Phant / data.sparkfun.com. Before they were Xively they were Pachube and things were easier to work with and free. Then Xi…

This is a bit of a false dichotomy here, as we do have occasional work from home which varies between positions and departments. That perk is a separate concern from the dog perk. …

In all fairness it used to be more of a waste of time (as mentioned in the post it got progressively worse and widely viewed as a waste of time) until the tribunal came along. Unde…

This is perhaps one of the more succinct ways of summarizing our core reasons for the switch. There's a lot more to it than that, of course, but in a nutshell we saw the upcoming s…

Inventory location is one of many, many problems our ERP system is tasked with. And we've looked at a lot of software packages over the years, both proprietary and open. In terms o…

I presume you're recommending PostGIS because of the allusions to the inventory location problem. While better modelling of geo data would be nice it's kind of a different concern.…

These are all very good questions and underscore the need to come to an interview prepared to do no less. As a manager who frequently interviews developers nothing is more deflatin…

Amazing how the insides of these chips are composed of similar looking traces and microcomponents to the PCBs that house them on a larger order of magnitude.

I'm booked for a tour in April and had no idea it was scheduled to be shut down. What a stroke of luck! Here's hoping we get a more in-depth look than we would have during normal o…

We had a similar situation several years ago with our site: http://www.sparkfun.com And this Chinese knock-off: http://www.geeetech.com/ Not only did they rip off our design but th…

The retail comparison is apples to oranges, in my opinion. Amazon is purely eCommerce, no brick-and-mortar, so the comparison is strongest when considering other eCommerce outfits.…

SparkFun Electronics (Boulder, CO) Looking for a full time web application developer. Debian/Nginx/PHP/MySQL stack with a dash of MongoDB. Heavily open source environment (SparkFun…

Another excellent post by Rands. Much of his guidance on conducting 1:1s with developers I gleaned from his book Managing Humans. The note in this article on asserting "I will not …

The number one rule for KickStarter is that it is NOT eCommerce. When a campaign operates on the mindset that it's a platform to sell goods, and when backers also operate on that s…