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Assumptions: you have a Movable Type blog, and rights to the underlying database. That you can create a PHP script on the same server, and can edit either .htaccess or httpd.conf. Similar approaches should work fine with ......
Let's Make Mistakes, #47
There’s No Shaming in Design
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I want to blog on my movable type blog from my iPad. The problem? If I take pictures on my iPad I cannot upload them to my blog because the blog doesn't know where to find them on the iPad....
136500 for one post blog... How do I stop this portion of the backup from occurring? I have truncated the mt_log table down to just this month's traffic. Any advice will be greatly appreciated! Reported on Movable Type 4.1x ......
Each and every image is recorded on the movable type backend as an "asset", which means that at any time you could edit an image characteristics by going to: Assets -> Manage. Then going inside an image asset and ......
I just added the new configuration directive AllowFileInclude, as per http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/config-directives/allowfileinclude.html (and because I got an error and had to check why :-) ) ......
Main Page / Blog / Movable Type. I have been alerted to a problem with the blog here on the main page. Seems several items are making references to web sites that are no longer. Some are the blog references...
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/developer/custom-custom-field-types.html. Sometimes the choices available are not adequate, and a developer would like to define a new form element or custom field type....
Most of you will be familiar with the ancient Chinese and Japanese art of woodblock printing, but masterpieces created with the wooden and metal movable type are somewhat less known, though they show craftsmanship and ......
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Most of you will be familiar with the ancient Chinese and Japanese art of woodblock printing, but masterpieces created with wood and metal movable type are somewhat lesser known, although they show craftsmanship and ......
It boggles the mind to think about typesetting in Asian languages with the huge number of different characters! But still, the world's first moveable type was invented in China, centuries before Gutenberg's printing press. Master ......
We’ve got a studio profile in the June issue of .net magazine! Pick up your copy as we talk about more lore on Mule’s origins, the upsides of small companies, our approach to nonprofits versus large organizations, and what we’re...
Running from the Law, #14
Interviews and Measured Truths
Let's Make Mistakes, #46
Getting Straight to Design
Salt & Fat, #10
Starting Fresh
Salt & Fat, #8
Let's Make Mistakes in the Kitchen
Salt & Fat, #9
Presses, from Garlic to Cookbooks
Let's Make Mistakes, #44
One Year of Mistakes Down
Let's Make Mistakes, #45
“Teaching Clients” and Gendering Pets
A couple of years ago my son was working on a school report that he had to deliver in front of his class. He asked for help. He told me he was afraid to get up in front of...
Salt & Fat, #7
Not Just a Lubricant
Salt & Fat, #6
Pun Intended
Let's Make Mistakes, #43
Meet Matt Haughey
Running from the Law, #13
Looking for Law in All The Right Places
Running from the Law, #12
Risk! Exposed!
Hour of Pour, #3
Drink It Until You Like It
testing...
Let's Make Mistakes, #42
Another Stupid RFP Process
Episode #11: Begin with the end in mind! If you are thinking of striking out on your own, this episode is for you. Protect your assets, pick the right business entity, and get your agreements in order. Enjoy Gabe’s...
Episode #10: Software patent lawsuits are all the rage, but who really benefits? (Hint: It’s the patent lawyers.) Erika and Gabe dig into the downside of software patents. Then they chat a bit about the motivational power of eating...
Let's Make Mistakes, #41
One Time in a Card House with Stephanie Morgan…
Hour of Pour, #2
The Con of Cons
Salt & Fat, #5
Stocking Your...Stock
Let's Make Mistakes, #40
Let's Fight!
Running from the Law, #9
Digesting an Ownership Stake
Salt & Fat, #4
What I Could Do With a Duck
We make a practice of telling prospective clients to call us as early as possible when planning a potential project. This is to prevent them from going too far down a path that might have benefited from our input...
Episode #8: Gabe laughs into the wind as he and Erika explore the benefits of speed play and the pitfalls of “private courts”. Listen to the show here. And send any questions or comments to running@muledesign.com....
Episode #39: In this week’s episode of Let’s Make Mistakes, Mike and Katie talk about handling repercussions of your past work relationships and designers’ responsibility when they run into a project or an idea they don’t like. The theme...
Episode #1: In which Jason and Jessie realize how boring their lives have become and talk about what they can do to fix that. Listen to the show here. And send any questions or comments to hourofpour@muleradio.net....
Episode #3: Are there rules for cooking with other people? How do you balance an awesome meal with good company? And what do you do with teutonic foodies? Listen to the show here. And send any questions or comments...
Episode #7: If you’re in it for the long haul, you’ll want to protect yourself from injury. Erika and Gabe cover the basics of trademark protection and chat about cross-training for better fitness. Listen to the show here. And...
This plugin fixes an issue introduced with Google Chrome v17 that causes admin entry previews to display a blank screen. This seems to happen only when the entry contains img tags with fully qualified src URLs from the same domain...
Episode #6: Erika and Gabe chat about their respective preferences for running companionship and offer strategies for successful working relationships. Listen to the show here. And send any questions or comments to running@muledesign.com....
(For Valentine’s Day, a post about togetherness.) There are two types of people in the world. Those who think in dichotomies and those who don’t. For all that working in and around the Internet requires—and often celebrates—a broad and...
Episode #38: Mike and Katie talk about making mistakes and making decisions: decisions about structuring user research, about racism and design, and about interruptions to your work. And if that’s too much design talk, we also talk about family...
Episode #5: Erika and Gabe talk about the considerations of flat-fee contracts vs. time and materials, as well as how to deal with lactate build-up. Listen to the show here. And send any questions or comments to running@muledesign.com....
Episode #4: Sometimes a chilling effect is just what you want. Erika and Gabe discuss the mysteries of cooling your thighs and protecting your ideas. Listen to the show here. And send any questions or comments to running@muledesign.com....
Episode #1: We dug deep into the Mule Radio archives to find the earliest episode of Salt & Fat, recorded way back in the fall of 2011. Neven and Jim start off with a conversation about where the name...
Episode #2: Spend Valentine’s Day doing something you love—cooking, of course! Jim and Neven chat about why you should cancel your dinner reservations for February 14, dining for amateurs, and how a grilled cheese can be an act of...
Episode #37: Mike and Katie finally get to talk to the woman behind the fireball. Mike and Amy discuss their trouble with friendliness, and Katie and Amy talk about what makes them angry. Along the way, they touch on...
Episode #3: Erika and Gabe reminisce about SOPA and PIPA and review key considerations in running shoe selection. Listen to the show here. And send any questions or comments to running@muledesign.com....
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Episode #2: Erika and Gabe discuss the pros and cons of using an NDA to protect intellectual property and debate the necessity of hiding one’s hideous mutilated toenails. Listen to the show here. And send any questions or comments...
Episode #36: Mike and Katie sit down with John Gruber himself and discuss the trouble with “booth babes”, conferences, and iconic jerseys from the biggest asshole teams in the USA. Listen to the show here. And send any questions...
I worked at a small Mac software company from 2008-2010 called Delicious Monster, founded by Wil Shipley and Mike Matas. Most people know the company for its hit software Delicious Library, but most people know me from the infamous booth...
Episode #1: In this first episode of Running from the Law, Erika Hall and Gabe Levine discuss some California legislation that could affect design shops and other small businesses, the joys of endurance training, hiring penalties, and Nip Guards....
Episode #35: In an especially dissociative episode of Let’s Make Mistakes, Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum speculate wildly about the similarities between design and law. They find a way to do volunteer work that doesn’t have to suck, and...
Episode #34: Mike and Katie talk about the social skills wrought on the little diamond, hardwood, and gridiron; the problems of Pro Bono work and volunteering; and how one person can start to right a bad design culture. And...
I’m unabashedly excited about responsive design (see my review of Ethan Marcotte’s book). I believe that it has the potential to take web design in directions we haven’t considered. At Mule we’ve been applying some of the principles to recent...
Episode #33: Forced church attendance, television, the technology of textbooks, trying new things, and designer resolutions. Mike and Katie talk about all this and more on this week’s Let’s Make Mistakes. Listen to the show here. And send any...
In an interview with Shadoe Huard, Katie draws on her background as advocacy filmmaker and undergrad anthropologist to give a better sense of how the fields twine and influence our research process at Mule. Most people do not just hang...
For one, choose better problems to solve: Designers are, by definition, problem-solvers. And the world has never been so blessedly full of problems. Our infrastructure is rotting, the economy is crap, Wall Street is awash with criminals and millions of...
Episode #32: Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum spend their last episode of 2011 talking through why Louis C.K.’s comedy experiment works so well, high level and low level mistakes, and saying goodbye. Listen to the show here. And send...
Episode #31: This week Mike and Katie discuss mixing design work and family in a discussion that ends up being about whether you can ever go home again. They also talk about asking leading research questions, using fake metrics,...
Episode #30: Mike and Katie celebrate the season of sharing and crying by getting visitors at the annual Mule holiday party to share their biggest holiday mistakes. And because mistakes have no season, they get stories about Christmas mistakes,...
Episode #29: Mike and Katie discuss having (no) shame about your search history, where shame comes from, and quitting your job. Listen to the show here. And send any questions or comments to makemistakes@muledesign.com....
Part 2 in a 2 part series about the use of female bodies in media and design and preventing problematic design decisions. In part one of this series, I laid out the real and troubling issues with the use...
Episode #28: Mike and Katie discuss bias and design flaws in Siri and about how people should respond to mistakes online, both their own mistakes and others’. After the topical business, they discuss what it means to “move up”...
This is Part 1 of a 2 part series. There have been, and will continue to be, discussions about diversity and women in design. These discussions are totally necessary given the current state of design and tech, and they...
We have had the good fortune to work with many terrific, absolutely stellar clients over the years. Every one of these client relationships began with an initial contact as part of a “business development” process (while I am a...
Episode #27: This week’s Let’s Make Mistakes is all about thanks. Mike and Katie talk about Thanksgiving as an immigrant, as an eater, and as a member of a huge family. They discuss charging different rates for different jobs...
Episode #26: This week is story time with Greg Storey on Let’s Make Mistakes. Mike, Katie, and Greg talk about requests for spec work, industrial interior design, and the artistry of grocery bagging. Listen to the show here. And...
Episode #25: Mike and Katie talk about olfactory hallucinations, discuss whether there is any real innovation, and make plans for the Let’s Make Mistakes field trip while fielding a variety of good questions from the loyal listeners of the...
Episode #24: Solve all the world’s problems? Mike and Katie welcome tech journalist, former write-in San Francisco mayoral candidate, and southern gentleman: Mat Honan to talk about his ideas on how the youngish generations deal with adversity, journalistic “impartiality,”...
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Episode #23: In this episode of Let’s Make Mistakes, the discussions centers on jobs, cartoons, and personal style. Mike Monteiro doesn’t like when people ask for free designer work; Katie Gillum is still fine talking to him when he’s...
Episode #22: Mike and Katie field their first “call-in” question and talk about not killing the design feedback messenger. Also they talk about the worst night of Mike’s life. They have a lot of big ideas, and they invite...
Episode #21: Mike and Katie discuss design portfolio and how you represent your work, and they clarify misconceptions about “ethics” and design. They also put to rest the issues they have with meth and vegans, Mad Men and censorship,...
I first saw Steve Jobs speak at the D5 Conference. Where the infamous “glass of ice water in hell” comment originated. I remember it well. Big laughs. But there’s another comment he made during that interview that had a much...
In the first interview of this series, I interviewed Nathan Shedroff, an educator and design professional about the expectations and experiences surrounding design education. Now, I welcome the thoughts of Dina Ravvin, a fourth-year design student at The Cooper Union...
Episode #20: It turns out roving bands of angry people handle neighborhood matters very differently in Philadelphia and (everywhere else) San Francisco. Mike and Katie talk about disagreeing with clients on small issues, style, ethics, politics and when and...
Episode #19: Today’s episode of Let’s Make Mistakes is a study in exciting data followed by tech and valley culture with some contract killings and pet talk mixed in. Mike and Katie discuss lying for an employer and then...
Episode #18: Mike and Katie talk with Chris Sacca about being hugged by average tweeters who recognize the man on the street, hugging Ann Curry, and hugging the hustler inside you. Listen to the show here. And send any...
Episode #17: Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum return from their hiatus talking about what taking “time off” in design and other creative fields actually means. They discuss how you really get final approval for design and film work. Mike...
Coming to the Bay Area not long after graduation, I met many young and highly successful designers both with and without college degrees. I’ve heard some people say that it’s hard to find a “good” designer. That led me to...
Relatively speaking, relationships used to be simple. Or at least simpler. Maybe just not as complicated. Once upon a time your professional relationships stayed in one place, your personal relationships in another, and you controlled where those blurred through....
Episode #16: Mike Monteiro is in a bad mood as he and Katie Gillum are joined by Erika Hall to discuss client services and the discussion about whether we have come to the “end of client services.” There is...
Episode #15: Mike and Katie welcome Sir Rod Begbie to Let’s Make Mistakes. They discuss the Nancy Drew fanfic Mike has been writing, moving from one company to another, and designer-engineer relationships. Can we all just get along and...
Within the context of this piece, interactive design refers to the practice of conceiving of and creating useful, usable objects, services, and systems that people (users) experience through a digital device. Branding and graphic design are typically involved. A...
Episode #14: Mike and Katie talk about research for small scale projects and not being a jerk (about clients) on the internet. They discuss the importance of explaining why you need research as a designer, which is as easy...
This diagram represents three stages of design thinking during the wireframing process. The mock-ups are for the Account Details template for the fictitious Cash Money Bank. Please note that the interface specification is just that, a specification, and not...
I was very excited when I learned there was going to be a second edition of DOM Scripting. It was the book that enabled me to finally form a few years of copy-paste pseudo-coding into an actual chunk of...
Episode #13: Though all of their shows are “all ages,” Mike and Katie answer the questions of listeners of a variety of ages and experience levels. They talk about the pitfalls of hiring a designer for a job and...
Ever since the folks at A Book Apart started publishing books, it was a pretty sure thing that the material and product would both be good. That has borne out. All of the books have been valuable. But this...
Now I have no idea whether Google+ will succeed or not, and I’m still not quite sure how it’ll fit into the already saturated social media stage. And for now I’ll leave that to those who like to opine...
Episode #12: Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum welcome Gabe Levine to discuss the legalish parts of client services. They talk about how to plan for when people become their worst selves in design, contracts as diapers, the Golden Rule....
Catch Erika as she talks with Jeremy Fuksa of THE COCKTAIL NAPKIN. She covers Mule’s approach to design strategy, the way narrative works with an organization’s goals, and the many connections between philosophy and information architecture (with a bonus anecdote...
Episode #11: Mike and Katie admit some mistakes. The also have a Diversity Check-in about boys’ clubs in all industries, fathers’ day, and private and public areas. Finally, they shake up the rhythm of the show with a special...
The ninth post in our series, Brief Interviews with Assiduous Mules. Read past interviews with Jessie Char, Shawna Seth, David McCreath, Nila Salinas, Paula Chang, Stewart McCoy, Katie Gillum, and Mike Monteiro. What did you study in school? How...
We’re thrilled to say that starting this Friday, we’re the new hosts for CreativeMornings. We couldn’t be prouder to take on this new leadership role within the design community, and we look forward to many, many months of mornings filled...
Episode #10: Mike and Katie talk a bit more about flipping the Flip and flipping companies. They chat about the differences between being a designer at a start up and at a design agency, the Rock’s Family Tree, and...
We’ve kept busy busting some grim language (mis)uses over at Unsuck It. We’ve also added a few audio samples to better capture that douche-croon—use headphones if you’re aching for an intimate encounter—with more voices to come in the future. In...
Episode #9: Mike takes his first steps as an interviewer while Katie sits in the hot seat about research methodology in design. The discussion veers into manipulation vs. getting the best out of people, how research helps talk clients...
When Erika Hall and I started Mule 10 years ago, we were excited to be able to take on our own clients, make our own decisions, and most of all, to do what we loved to do. One task...
Here’s video of my talk at Creative Mornings on 3/25/11. Also, make sure to read the companion post, Getting Comfortable With Contracts. 2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from SanFrancisco/CreativeMornings on Vimeo. A big thanks to the entire...
Here’s the third post in our series, Brief Interviews with Assiduous Mules. Read past interviews with Jessie Char and Shawna Seth. What are the tools/programming languages every aspiring developer should know? A front end developer should of course know...
We’ve worked with a lot of early-stage companies over the years. Some of those engagements have gone swimmingly and some—well, we have taken the lesson and moved forward. Recently, the notorious Dave McClure, super angel, has become a terrific...
During my time at Vassar, graduating seniors were given the opportunity to sign a social and environmental pledge stating that they would keep close the ideals they held dear during their college years once beyond the university gates: I...
The fourth post in our series, Brief Interviews with Assiduous Mules. Read past interviews with Jessie Char, Shawna Seth, and David McCreath. What did you study in school? How did that lead to or influence you in your current...
The fifth post in our series, Brief Interviews with Assiduous Mules. Read past interviews with Jessie Char, Shawna Seth, David McCreath, and Nila Salinas. Are you self-taught? Or did you study design/development? Both. I went to design school, which...
The sixth post in our series, Brief Interviews with Assiduous Mules. Read past interviews with Jessie Char, Shawna Seth, David McCreath, Nila Salinas, and Paula Chang. You applied to only one job (Mule, of course) and got it. Okay,...
The seventh post in our series, Brief Interviews with Assiduous Mules. Read past interviews with Jessie Char, Shawna Seth, David McCreath, Nila Salinas, Paula Chang, and Stewart McCoy. You’re a filmmaker and the associate director for the Disposable Film...
I’ve just returned from a terrific time at Confab 2011: The Content Strategy Conference, where I was very pleased to have the opportunity to speak—and to meet many great, fun, intellectually curious people. It was the maiden voyage of Confab,...
We’re pleased to announce the redesign of the Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRF). Sound familiar? We first worked together nearly six years ago. We love all our clients, but it’s always a treat to have the chance to revisit past clients...
Photo via Rod Begbie. The eighth post in our series, Brief Interviews with Assiduous Mules. Read past interviews with Jessie Char, Shawna Seth, David McCreath, Nila Salinas, Paula Chang, Stewart McCoy, and Katie Gillum. What did you study in...
Our longstanding clients over at AllThingsD launched their new site over the weekend. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have been part of the redesign effort to band the many and excellent voices under the All Things Digital brand....
Click to see the old eNotes It’s a given that we prize the written word at Mule. When the eNotes team approached us for a redesign, they dropped such aims as “a space for every student to engage” and...
Becoming a better designer is a lot like becoming a better soccer player. You have to play a lot. If you don’t play you don’t gain experience, you don’t train your muscle memory, and you don’t get better. But...
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Selective Cloner is plugin for Movable Type that enables administrators to clone (copy) existing blogs. Unlike the blog cloning tool that comes with MT, Selective Cloner only clones Blog Settings, Permissions, and Templates. This plugin enables you to quickly create...
During the past few weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about whether Twitter's "real time search" could pose a threat to Google. While I am not sure if Twitter poses a threat to Google, I think it is...
Over at my Moopz site, I have just released a new Twitter Bookmarklet that make it easy to submit the link of the page you are reading. A pop up appears with a Twitter-like interface, enabling you to quickly tweet...
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Twitter Commenters is a plugin for Movable Type that enables commenters to sign-in and comment on your blog using their Twitter account. Versions 2 includes support for Twitter's OAuth authorization system and enables commenters to automatically share their comments to...
A new Open Source project has been launched today called Open Melody, which is a fork of Movable Type Open Source. Open Melody has been created by the MT developer community in order to take the product to the next...
Twitter Commenters is a plugin for Movable Type that enables commenters to sign-in and comment on your blog using their Twitter account. Versions 2+ includes support for Twitter's OAuth authorization system and enables commenters to automatically share their comments to...
What about a Google Wave plugin for Movable Type, as a way to engage in real-time conversations about blog entries. What do think? Below is just a test, you should see an embedded Wave. If you have a Google Wave...
A year ago, I created a Greasemonkey user script that displays the most recent 5 tweets for the query that you are searching for at the top of Google search results. Today I have created an Extension for Google Chrome...
A year ago, I created a Greasemonkey user script that displays the most recent 5 tweets for the query that you are searching for at the top of Google search results. Today I have created one that does the same...
I have created a version of Twitter's new official Tweet Button that works as a Chrome Extension. With this extension you can view the Tweet Count and Share the page for all web pages, even pages that don't have embedded...
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