There have been several posts concerning Harmony on this here weblog, but none of them are as important as this one.
While at dinner on the 2010 LessCruise, I mentioned my belief in happy passwords to Alex and Brian. They both found it interesting and urged me to post about it, so here you go.
With the latest versions of Google Chrome and Safari 5, we can now move away from the -webkit-text-stroke hack I had previously endorsed, and move to a much better solution.
Last week was a big week for us, as we finally moved into our new office. We couldn’t be more excited to have a place of our own, and think we’ve nabbed some of the coolest space in South Bend.
Last weekend in Lansing, MI, Steve and I both spoke at the Great Lakes Ruby Bash. Steve spoke on designing code and I on my lack of talent. We had a great time and love attending regional conferences like the Bash.
Over the course of the past year and a half, we have learned a lot through building and releasing Harmony. I thought it might be helpful to reflect on what we have learned thus far and share those lessons with you.
I hear this phrase a lot, and even recently, out of my own mouth: “Users are stupid, so we have to dumb this down to the lowest common denominator.” Stop it. Just stop it.
I mean it. All of you people are writing fantastic, useful articles about code, methods, and technologies, but you’re putting them in blog posts — a date-based format that encourages us to leave things as they were, historically.
We’ve been focusing our efforts on building Harmony the past few months, but we recently carved out some time to give our site some much needed love and attention.
We’re finally revealing the tip of the Harmony iceberg in the form of a nearly-complete documentation site that will fuel our beta testers, and help future customers hit the ground running once the CMS is released.