WiseStamp, an easy way to implement HTML signature in your emails

Are you looking to attach signature on your Gmail / Aol Mail / Hotmail / Yahoo Mail, without pain ?

WiseStamp Firefox Exension is for you.

This little extension will add a new button on the bottom right of your Firefox status bar. You’ll just have to do a right click, edit, and start your new signature creation.

A basic HTML editor (with Bold, Underline, Link, Center, Image … ) and some very useful Instant Messenger and WebServices helpers icons, like Facebook or linkedin, will be at your disposal on the WiseStamp interface.

Once saved, you’re new signature will be automatically sent with your emails.

The only problem is that WiseStamp is only available for Firefox for the moment.

I was looking for a simple solution for a long time now, thanks to Eric from www.presse-citron.net.

Here is my new signature :

Starting a new project ? Need to find a domain name, bustaname

Like a lot of other website, BustAName will help you on the hard task of finding the perfect domain name.

But BustAName has a little something in plus.

The design is good, usability is really good, response time is very good, with the ajax form you’ll be able to try a lot of combinations in a short time.

Basically you have 2 choices :

1. Add some word on a list, and the website will do every combination possible with all words and check if they are free
2. Just check a domain on a .com / .org / .net

Another very good service to bookmark.

Friday fun, bedposted :D

I’m not really sure if my peanut will like this post, but bedpost is clearly an innovating web application.

This web application is a ’sexual performance’ tracker.

Basically, you have access to a calendar were you’ll track, hours by hours, your different partners.

After that, the web 2.0 magic, will let you access to a bed activity analysis with charts and bars for all your data.

It’s not an application that I’ll use, but the idea is very good (I’ll send it to some friends).

What about you, do you know some funny web application like bedpost ?

Typetester.org, the ultimate tool to test your typo on the web

I’ve just discovered the kind of really useful web application, which is really useful.

With Typetester you can test and compare the render of the most used font directly on your browser.

Really easy to use, you can start with a default text (the Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet) and play with fonts size, color, alignment …

3 Columns for 3 different renders will help you decide which font to use on your website.

Easy and useful, Typetester is a very good application to bookmark.

Please, use a version control system, even if your work alone.

Currently, in my team, we are looking for a new junior web developer.

Each time it is the same process.

   1. Read the CV.
   2. First call to see if the person will be ok FOR the role.
   3. Second call with technical questions.

In these technical questions, one is : “Have your ever used a source versioning control system ?”

Easy, isn’t it ?

You’d be surprised with the responses we had :

   1. No never used before.
   2. Yes I’ve used Eclipse/Tortoise
   3. What is it ?
   4. No, never because I worked alone or because we were a small team

Come on, how can you imagine working on a project, even small and own project, without a version control system ?

Saving your code, diff capabilities, branches, tags, reverts, history …. can you code without this ?

To hard or you don’t have any server for that ?

Have a look at GitHub

You don’t need one, you work alone ?

So, you never make mistake, you’ve never modified a file and seen a hidden bug 1 week later, never copied and pasted a part of code in a text editor just in case it doesn’t work, never renamed a folder with the word ‘works/ok/test’ ?

If you can say yes to one or more of the behaviours above, you should take half a day to put your project under a version control system and learn how to use it.

If you want to learn more about version control system, smashing magazine made a presentation of 7 version control systems, just take a look.

At work, migration is in progress from CVS to SVN, and for my personal projects, I use Git on GitHub, very easy and very cheap.

What about you ? Do you use one ? Which one and why ?