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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Author Archives: Chris Heisel
What is a visitor?
So the last time I wrote in this occasional series about Internet jargon, I wrote about [page views](http://heisel.org/blog/2008/11/13/what-is-a-page-view/). Who’s generating all those page views? That would be a **visitor**. **So what is a visitor?** At a high level, it’s very … Continue reading
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WordPress for iPhone: Thumbs up
Early verdict on the [WordPress for iPhone application](http://iphone.wordpress.org/): it’s pretty nice! I used it to draft my post [about page views](http://heisel.org/blog/2008/11/13/what-is-a-page-view/) while I was riding on the [subway](http://itsmarta.com/) home. **What’s good** * **Offline** — How cool is it to be … Continue reading
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How Not To Build Your Twitter Community
How Not To Build Your Twitter Community – Great points all around. A good guide for traditional media outlets as they stumble into Twitter.
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Things Caches Do
Things Caches Do – A great primer on HTTP caching layers.
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Get more work done with less e-mail
Get more work done with less e-mail – We use a wiki, group chat room and Basecamp in my corner of ajc.com. It works tremendously well — there are so many great tools to enable great communication, and they're all … Continue reading
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