A lot of Lab Hours regulars must have stayed indoors to avoid the heat this week.  It was a smaller crowd this time around, and I got to catch up with more people than usual.  It was nice!  After a brief diversion on the history of locally-owned bookstores (Barry has the inside scoop!), we set our sights on: Read More »

We had a tough time shaking out the sillies today.  Lab hours opened with dialects, gopher tails, and a few childishly derisive comments about taxonomy.  Kay even demoed her portable fan! Read More »

A jam-packed week once again.  There were many exclamations of "Yessss!", so I hope it was also productive.  It's fun to watch people work as the lightbulb pops on.  In fact, there were so many lightbulbs, we blew a fuse! Read More »

More fun in the sunny meeting room! Most of the members wanted to learn more about newsletter handling, so Lab Hours started out with Allie going through the modules and steps needed towards implementing a mail solution. Read More »

Jay from the Twin Cities Daily Planet recently filed a request in our project management system requesting info about how to embed an audio file (with a player) hosted by a third party source in a story node on their site to allow visitors to listen to audio tracks while reading related stories. This question and its cousin about how to embed video files hosted by YouTube or Blip.tv has been coming up a lot lately. Here was my response, which I share since it may be of interest to you: Read More »

Another productive day at Advantage Labs HQ! Read More »