If you had 5 minutes on stage and 20 slides, what would you say? This is the premise behind the countless Ignite talks hosted across the globe each year. Kicked off by the folks at O’Reilly in 2006, this phenomenon has grown into an online and offline hit, culminating in the upcoming Global Ignite Week, spread across 70+ venues worldwide during 1-5 March, 2010.
I was looking outside the window of our 6-person helicopter, trying to rationalize what was going on. Indeed, why was I in a helicopter, skimming the top of Sydney Harbour Bridge? And why was it that earlier in day, I was defending the merits of a favorite pop-philosopher, while incongruously sitting on the warm leatherette of a stretch Hummer limousine? I focused my attention on the harbor beneath, picking boats, a lone cyclist on North Head. Apparently this was the Campaign Monitor end-of-year party, but it could just as well have been a commercial for a men’s fragrance.
Every time we mention our amazing line of Campaign Monitor t-shirts, our community goes completely mad. Is it the flattering cut of the American Apparel cotton tee, the crisp slogans, or simply the fact that they draw the envy and admiration of all?* To get to the bottom of this, we decided to pull Jarrod Taylor, our designer and t-shirt mogul, away from the drawing board to walk us through the the creation of a Campaign Monitor tee.
Imagine a world in which you didn’t have to code and re-code your site to ensure consistency in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Now, imagine something even more outrageous, another dimension in which HTML emails render as they should – reliably and accessibly, across all email clients. It’s not too late to make this a reality, so today we’re wearing our blue with pride and celebrating International Blue Beanie Day, in support of web standards!
What do you get when you throw 15 designers, coders and web-types into an open room, with workspaces, couches, fast Internet access and a good supply of coffee? Jelly.
The notion of casual coworking in a Jelly, or plainly, spending the odd weekday with a like-minded group of people, has gained a lot of momentum amongst designers and web developers. Under the auspices of the Sydney-based design and development house, Agency Rainford, I decided to experience the Jelly phenomenon for myself.
We’re looking for 3 talented new people to join the Campaign Monitor team in our brand new Sydney offices. This includes a Senior Designer, QA Engineer and Systems Engineer.
For the last year and a half we’ve been providing free catered lunches for the Campaign Monitor team. Read the story behind our ultra nerdy lunch ordering system.
Read all about our new office fit-out, and why we think closed offices are the way to go for productive software teams.