Koke’s

My English alter-ego

Make your e-mail conversations better using happy faces

Posted by Jorge Bernal November 25, 2007

I’m sure every one who uses email frequently, has suffered more than one email discussion.

Usually you may say things in an email that you wouldn’t say in person, or reply furious about something before counting to ten. This screenshot shows my little trick:

happy-mail.jpg

I’m using Apple Mail with Addressbook, but most of email programs support adding pictures to your contacts.

Find a picture of every of your colleagues, or people you write most and assign it to their contact info.

Make sure he or she is smiling, or with a lovely face, or even use a picture that reminds you of the best moments you have spent with that person.

Next time you are furious with that person (no matter what the cause is) you’ll see that picture and it might help you calm down and think in positive. It works quite well for me.

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From development to production and back in a blink

Posted by Jorge Bernal November 20, 2007

If you do serious web development, you sure have multiple working environments. This is true for ruby on rails, but I’ll guess you’ll do the same using other frameworks or languages. I’ve found a quite useful Firefox extension to switch from development to production (and back) with just a click (or a keystroke: Ctrl-Shift-X): Server Switcher

Server Switcher: development

Server Switcher: production

This is helping me redesigning the MySQL training part of our website, and can be useful in some other situations.

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