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I Took It!

April 24, 2007 at 08:20 AM

I just finished taking the First Annual A List Apart Web Design Survey.

The survey took me less than five minutes to complete, and because I offered my name and email address at the end of the survey, I’ve been entered to win a free ticket to An Event Apart event, an Apple 30GB video iPod, an Event Apart jump drive, or an A List Apart T-shirt.

Personally, I’m very curious to see the results of this survey, especially with all of the recent discussion surrounding gender diversity at web conferences, and the industry in general.

So, if you’ve got 5 spare minutes and would like the chance to win some cool prizes, make sure to take the survey.

Comments: 3 (view/add your own) Tags: alistapart, personal, survey, webdev

Simplelog Contact Mailer Plugin

April 18, 2007 at 06:47 PM

After following the conversation surrounding the Contact Mailer plugin offered by Harold Emsheimer at the Simplelog Forums, I decided to download and install it on my own site.

I found the plugin easy enough to install and after playing around with it for a bit, I decided to hack it apart a bit and make it even easier to install, and clean up the URL’s the plugin uses.

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Comments: 0 (view/add your own) Tags: rails, ruby, simplelog, webdev

About Me

My name is Jeff Smith and I'm a web developer and graphic designer living in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. That being said, I'm not originally from the prairies, I'm a maritimer, born and bred, namely an Islander (Prince Edward Island).

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