Comments for Evan Solomon http://evansolomon.me/notes Notes on life Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:43:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19643 Comment on Chrome Extension: Add a link to the SVN repo on WordPress plugin pages by Alex Mills (Viper007Bond) http://evansolomon.me/notes/chrome-extension-add-link-to-svn-repo-on-wordpress-plugin-pages/#comment-816 Alex Mills (Viper007Bond) Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:43:13 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=740#comment-816 On a semi-related note, you might find this interesting: http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpressorg-one-click-install/ On a semi-related note, you might find this interesting:

http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpressorg-one-click-install/

]]> Comment on Evan Solomon(s) by Alex Mills (Viper007Bond) http://evansolomon.me/notes/evan-solomons/#comment-815 Alex Mills (Viper007Bond) Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:41:17 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=416#comment-815 This is absolutely hilarious. Bummed I missed this the first time around. This is absolutely hilarious. Bummed I missed this the first time around.

]]> Comment on Chrome Extension: Add a link to the SVN repo on WordPress plugin pages by Eric http://evansolomon.me/notes/chrome-extension-add-link-to-svn-repo-on-wordpress-plugin-pages/#comment-282 Eric Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:05:06 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=740#comment-282 My go-to solution up to now has been to click on "Other Versions" and then "Subversion Respository." Yes, I had to click twice, but never had to copy-paste slugs or try to remember the SVN address. That said, this is a nifty tool that will save me a bit of time! My go-to solution up to now has been to click on “Other Versions” and then “Subversion Respository.” Yes, I had to click twice, but never had to copy-paste slugs or try to remember the SVN address.

That said, this is a nifty tool that will save me a bit of time!

]]> Comment on Chrome Extension: Add a link to the SVN repo on WordPress plugin pages by evan http://evansolomon.me/notes/chrome-extension-add-link-to-svn-repo-on-wordpress-plugin-pages/#comment-144 evan Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:40:12 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=740#comment-144 Oops, late night typing fail. Should be corrected now. Oops, late night typing fail. Should be corrected now.

]]> Comment on Chrome Extension: Add a link to the SVN repo on WordPress plugin pages by John http://evansolomon.me/notes/chrome-extension-add-link-to-svn-repo-on-wordpress-plugin-pages/#comment-141 John Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:39:00 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=740#comment-141 Very nice. Couple of typos in the chrome store text: <blockquote>Simple Chrome extensiont that runs n WordPress plugins pages.</blockquote> Very nice. Couple of typos in the chrome store text:

Simple Chrome extensiont that runs n WordPress plugins pages.

]]> Comment on WordCamp Vegas: Make stuff people want by Jenia http://evansolomon.me/notes/wordcamp-las-vegas-make-stuff-people-want/#comment-131 Jenia Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:29:21 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=724#comment-131 A good personal challenge is a nice side effect of giving a talk! A good personal challenge is a nice side effect of giving a talk!

]]> Comment on WordCamp Vegas: Make stuff people want by evan http://evansolomon.me/notes/wordcamp-las-vegas-make-stuff-people-want/#comment-130 evan Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:24:09 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=724#comment-130 There was a camera recording it so I think there will be a video posted. I didn't really have any notes so unfortunately the slides are really all I can post. The format was fun to try but definitely harder than I expected. Switching between topics on the fly at the audience's choice means a lot of work to try to keep track of a reasonable narrative, which I stumbled on a few times. Still, I'm glad I tried it and it was at least a good personal challenge. There was a camera recording it so I think there will be a video posted. I didn’t really have any notes so unfortunately the slides are really all I can post.

The format was fun to try but definitely harder than I expected. Switching between topics on the fly at the audience’s choice means a lot of work to try to keep track of a reasonable narrative, which I stumbled on a few times. Still, I’m glad I tried it and it was at least a good personal challenge.

]]> Comment on WordCamp Vegas: Make stuff people want by Jenia http://evansolomon.me/notes/wordcamp-las-vegas-make-stuff-people-want/#comment-129 Jenia Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:16:24 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=724#comment-129 Judging by the slides, looks like it was a fun, interactive presentation! Nice pic selection :) Do you have notes of the actual talk, or is the video going to be posted? Judging by the slides, looks like it was a fun, interactive presentation! Nice pic selection :) Do you have notes of the actual talk, or is the video going to be posted?

]]> Comment on Data visualization is, itself, data by Nikolay http://evansolomon.me/notes/data-visualization-is-itself-data/#comment-123 Nikolay Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:20:57 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=680#comment-123 <blockquote>Nikolay, I disagree that the purpose of a chart (or any visualization) ought to skew toward the uninformed or uneducated reader. I think you’re missing the ability for the presentation of data to add context to it, and make it more useful.</blockquote> Evan, I agree a chart can add more context and make the data more useful. This falls under "beautiful" in my statement. Don't get me wrong, I love visualizations. There is rarely better way to communicate data and its context. Either to no-less educated peers or to a pack of lemmings. <blockquote>@Nikolay, graphs can somewhat lead to a revelation – when they help you see something you weren’t actually looking for to begin with :)</blockquote> Egill, they can, but it shouldn't be their goal. it's much faster, easier and precise to use the power numbers to find statistical oddities. If you had a revelation, because of a chart, you didn't do your statistics right.

Nikolay, I disagree that the purpose of a chart (or any visualization) ought to skew toward the uninformed or uneducated reader. I think you’re missing the ability for the presentation of data to add context to it, and make it more useful.

Evan, I agree a chart can add more context and make the data more useful. This falls under “beautiful” in my statement. Don’t get me wrong, I love visualizations. There is rarely better way to communicate data and its context. Either to no-less educated peers or to a pack of lemmings.

@Nikolay, graphs can somewhat lead to a revelation – when they help you see something you weren’t actually looking for to begin with :)

Egill, they can, but it shouldn’t be their goal. it’s much faster, easier and precise to use the power numbers to find statistical oddities. If you had a revelation, because of a chart, you didn’t do your statistics right.

]]> Comment on Data visualization is, itself, data by evan http://evansolomon.me/notes/data-visualization-is-itself-data/#comment-122 evan Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:57:54 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=680#comment-122 Nikolay, I disagree that the purpose of a chart (or any visualization) ought to skew toward the uninformed or uneducated reader. I think you're missing the ability for the presentation of data to add context to it, and make it more useful. Comments and style guidelines make it easier for the uneducated viewer to understand code, but for the educated reader they are even more valuable. Callum, it's an internal tool at Automattic called MC. I don't think we've open sourced any of it yet, but I hope we will one day. The stats come from an internal API which is pretty simple, basically it just increments a counter (actually 2 counters, one for hourly data that is rotated to keep one month of data and one for daily data that is saved forever) for a category/value. We can call it from anywhere in the codebase to measure arbitrary data points, like pageviews from a specific device, posts from a specific A/B test, etc. Nikolay, I disagree that the purpose of a chart (or any visualization) ought to skew toward the uninformed or uneducated reader. I think you’re missing the ability for the presentation of data to add context to it, and make it more useful. Comments and style guidelines make it easier for the uneducated viewer to understand code, but for the educated reader they are even more valuable.

Callum, it’s an internal tool at Automattic called MC. I don’t think we’ve open sourced any of it yet, but I hope we will one day. The stats come from an internal API which is pretty simple, basically it just increments a counter (actually 2 counters, one for hourly data that is rotated to keep one month of data and one for daily data that is saved forever) for a category/value. We can call it from anywhere in the codebase to measure arbitrary data points, like pageviews from a specific device, posts from a specific A/B test, etc.

]]> Comment on Data visualization is, itself, data by Egill R. Erlendsson http://evansolomon.me/notes/data-visualization-is-itself-data/#comment-121 Egill R. Erlendsson Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:49:06 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=680#comment-121 @Nikolay, graphs can somewhat lead to a revelation - when they help you see something you weren't actually looking for to begin with :) Perhaps eye-opening might be a better term for it? @Nikolay, graphs can somewhat lead to a revelation – when they help you see something you weren’t actually looking for to begin with :)

Perhaps eye-opening might be a better term for it?

]]> Comment on Data visualization is, itself, data by Callum http://evansolomon.me/notes/data-visualization-is-itself-data/#comment-120 Callum Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:14:53 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=680#comment-120 What are you using to generate the hourly heatmap graphic? I'd be interested to see our site logs in that format. What are you using to generate the hourly heatmap graphic? I’d be interested to see our site logs in that format.

]]> Comment on Data visualization is, itself, data by Nikolay http://evansolomon.me/notes/data-visualization-is-itself-data/#comment-119 Nikolay Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:11:08 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=680#comment-119 The goal of graphs and charts isn't to lead to revelations, but to make a particular revelation both beautiful and easier to grasp for the uneducated viewer. Revelations are most of the time either statistical deviations or statistical regularities. It is both easier and more consistent to find those revelations through statistical methods than by looking at charts. The goal of graphs and charts isn’t to lead to revelations, but to make a particular revelation both beautiful and easier to grasp for the uneducated viewer.

Revelations are most of the time either statistical deviations or statistical regularities. It is both easier and more consistent to find those revelations through statistical methods than by looking at charts.

]]> Comment on Data visualization is, itself, data by iPad Stats Visualization « Barry on WordPress http://evansolomon.me/notes/data-visualization-is-itself-data/#comment-118 iPad Stats Visualization « Barry on WordPress Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:41:08 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=680#comment-118 [...] has a cool post showing some of our internal heat map stats and some interesting points on data visualization. [...] [...] has a cool post showing some of our internal heat map stats and some interesting points on data visualization. [...]

]]> Comment on Data visualization is, itself, data by Egill R. Erlendsson http://evansolomon.me/notes/data-visualization-is-itself-data/#comment-117 Egill R. Erlendsson Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:18:50 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=680#comment-117 Great post, it is a revelation for someone like me that doesn't own an iPad. I wonder if mobile devices show a different usage pattern? By the way, merging those two heatmaps together leaves us with a gap from 05-11 that we need to fill :) Maybe we should start working on WordPress powered dreams, using Akismet as a nightmare filter! Great post, it is a revelation for someone like me that doesn’t own an iPad. I wonder if mobile devices show a different usage pattern?

By the way, merging those two heatmaps together leaves us with a gap from 05-11 that we need to fill :) Maybe we should start working on WordPress powered dreams, using Akismet as a nightmare filter!

]]> Comment on Automattic, travel, and a year of flux by Mark McWilliams http://evansolomon.me/notes/automattic-travel-year-of-flux/#comment-113 Mark McWilliams Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:33:24 +0000 http://evansolomon.me/notes/?p=652#comment-113 It sounds to me like you're having a smashing time at Automattic, and I hear you're only getting taller and taller by the day, or so it says in the Growth Engineer job description! :D It sounds to me like you’re having a smashing time at Automattic, and I hear you’re only getting taller and taller by the day, or so it says in the Growth Engineer job description! :D

]]> Comment on My first WordPress core contribution by Hanni http://evansolomon.me/notes/my-first-wordpress-core-contribution/#comment-98 Hanni Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:08:28 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=565#comment-98 Congratulations, sir! Congratulations, sir!

]]> Comment on Startup Murders Don’t Happen by Quora http://evansolomon.me/notes/startup-murders-dont-happen/#comment-89 Quora Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:35:54 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=248#comment-89 <strong>How many startups were killed by Apple's announcements at WWDC 2011?...</strong> Zero startups were killed by Apple's announcements. Consider Marco's response with regards to Instapaper: http://www.marco.org/2011/06/06/safari-reader-and-instapaper Apple effectively provides free marketing for Instapaper by adding read later and i... How many startups were killed by Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2011?…

Zero startups were killed by Apple’s announcements. Consider Marco’s response with regards to Instapaper: http://www.marco.org/2011/06/06/safari-reader-and-instapaper Apple effectively provides free marketing for Instapaper by adding read later and i…

]]> Comment on I made a delicious steak today by Steak Delicioso | Steak-Enthusiast.com http://evansolomon.me/notes/i-made-a-delicious-steak-today/#comment-88 Steak Delicioso | Steak-Enthusiast.com Wed, 04 May 2011 16:46:26 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=86#comment-88 [...] it out here and then try it for [...] [...] it out here and then try it for [...]

]]> Comment on Startup Murders Don’t Happen by Technology By Day » Startup Murders Don't Happen | Evanalyze http://evansolomon.me/notes/startup-murders-dont-happen/#comment-24 Technology By Day » Startup Murders Don't Happen | Evanalyze Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:56:50 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=248#comment-24 [...] this article: Startup Murders Don't Happen | Evanalyze Tags: another-big, facebook, pretty-common, thus-killing Leave a Reply Click here to cancel [...] [...] this article: Startup Murders Don't Happen | Evanalyze Tags: another-big, facebook, pretty-common, thus-killing Leave a Reply Click here to cancel [...]

]]> Comment on Lunchtime science + candy by ahasbrookcandrewc http://evansolomon.me/notes/lunchtime-science-candy/#comment-21 ahasbrookcandrewc Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:16:17 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=155#comment-21 i'd welcome your input on dark chocolate raisenets i'd welcome your input on dark chocolate raisenets

]]> Comment on Messing around with some design by Salim Virani http://evansolomon.me/notes/messing-around-with-some-design/#comment-16 Salim Virani Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:04:34 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=139#comment-16 This reminds me of a case study of the conversion techniques used on the Skype site. If you're a returning user, or arrived via certain search terms, you see a homepage with more explanatory text, like the first version. If you arrive directly, you're shown a more focused site with a clear call to action, much like your new version. This reminds me of a case study of the conversion techniques used on the Skype site. If you're a returning user, or arrived via certain search terms, you see a homepage with more explanatory text, like the first version. If you arrive directly, you're shown a more focused site with a clear call to action, much like your new version.

]]> Comment on Messing around with some design by Chris http://evansolomon.me/notes/messing-around-with-some-design/#comment-14 Chris Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:51:11 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=139#comment-14 Definitely an improvement (aside from the stretched out button). Having Obama's face there is key. Definitely an improvement (aside from the stretched out button). Having Obama's face there is key.

]]> Comment on Exciting week of my face on blogs by Chris http://evansolomon.me/notes/exciting-week-of-my-face-on-blogs/#comment-9 Chris Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:52:29 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=137#comment-9 Oh ,this blog is still active? Oh ,this blog is still active?

]]> Comment on I’ve been acquired, quiet period over by evansolomon http://evansolomon.me/notes/ive-been-acquired-quiet-period-over/#comment-13 evansolomon Thu, 14 May 2009 15:22:18 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=131#comment-13 Thanks Salim, appreciate it. I have a ton of stuff I want to try already, and I'm sure we'll think of more once I actually start officially. Will do my best to share what I can here and on Twitter. Thanks Salim, appreciate it. I have a ton of stuff I want to try already, and I'm sure we'll think of more once I actually start officially. Will do my best to share what I can here and on Twitter.

]]> Comment on I’ve been acquired, quiet period over by SaintSal http://evansolomon.me/notes/ive-been-acquired-quiet-period-over/#comment-12 SaintSal Thu, 14 May 2009 13:48:47 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=131#comment-12 Congratulations! Such an amazing opportunity for you and for Justin TV. You deserve it! Can't wait to see what ideas you come up with, and which you choose to execute. Congratulations! Such an amazing opportunity for you and for Justin TV. You deserve it! Can't wait to see what ideas you come up with, and which you choose to execute.

]]> Comment on I’ve been acquired, quiet period over by Chris http://evansolomon.me/notes/ive-been-acquired-quiet-period-over/#comment-6 Chris Wed, 13 May 2009 11:12:57 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=131#comment-6 Yay Bitesize! Yay Bitesize!

]]> Comment on Fun exchange on Twitter about Twitter search by Evanalyze » Idea sparks and quick turnaround http://evansolomon.me/notes/fun-exchange-on-twitter-about-twitter-search/#comment-2 Evanalyze » Idea sparks and quick turnaround Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:12:20 +0000 http://evanalyze.com/notes/?p=3#comment-2 [...] Twitter search” meme from a couple weeks ago led to my first ever blog comment. That led to a back and forth on Twitter and some emails back and forth. A couple days ago Salim launched [...] [...] Twitter search” meme from a couple weeks ago led to my first ever blog comment. That led to a back and forth on Twitter and some emails back and forth. A couple days ago Salim launched [...]

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