Misc. work

Automated email

Blackline needed a solid but passive way to communicate via automatically generated alerts and password reset messages. We put together this simple email design. Right now, we’re testing it (notably in Outlook), with that fractal email validator I posted a while back.

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Mustache is cool (but not moustaches)

Last week at work, Jesse implemented a new templating system on a few pages, called Mustache. We’ve got it working within Zend. It allows you to create matching jQuery and php code, so that you can have designers (like me) make forms look decent without messing up the validation and nesting.

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QR codes can be useful – who knew!

Recently, we added a mobile site for our Blackline users to access their account. It’s scope is largely cut down to basic devices list, properties and map location. To make it simple, we also added a unique auto-login URL, with a hash at the end. As you can imagine, the folllowing would be a faux-pas: Auto-emailing [...]

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