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Web Standards and IE 8

January 29, 2008 – 12:06 am

Inter­net Explor­er and web stan­dards have nev­er been the best of friends. IE 8 pro­pos­es some non-stan­dard behav­ior in the ulti­mate hopes to pro­mote bet­ter web stan­dards. Is this the way for­ward or a painful regression?

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Automattic Raises $29.5 Million

January 23, 2008 – 9:25 am

Automat­tic, the com­pa­ny behind the WordPress.com ser­vice and open-source blog­ging soft­ware, just announced a sec­ond round of fund­ing. What are the implications?

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#7 in Google Search!

January 19, 2008 – 2:30 pm

After a mere week online, Soma Design now shows up on the front page of a Google search for soma design. We’re #7 and hope­ful­ly mov­ing up!

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Searching for Domain Names

January 18, 2008 – 8:48 pm

Sell­ing domain names is a big busi­ness, which means that there’s always some­one out to make a buck off of unsus­pect­ing cus­tomers. One large domain sell­er is engag­ing in dirty prac­tices that we can help you avoid.

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Soma Design v0.8

January 15, 2008 – 8:47 pm

Wel­come to the first blog post of the new site. There’s still some blood, sweat and tears being poured into this thing, but I’d say I’m 80% sat­is­fied with the progress, thus the “v0.8” in the title.

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