Who says breaking things can't pay off? I sat down about a month ago to try and build a Chrome extension for Yalla. What better coding practice, I thought, than learning to tie an extension into our app? A tool to let users add priorities from outside Yalla would fit perfectly with our vision of …
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It was July 2016 and I was starting to worry. I was about to do something desperate. I was about to walk into a building and attempt to get a job at a digital marketing agency with absolutely no experience. I had quit my job as a reporter four months earlier to concentrate on learning to code. In …
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Note: this is the second entry in a two-part tutorial. If you haven’t read the first part yet, you can check it out here. Last time we set up a nice, simple roster to track all of our clients. Using Zapier, we created a system to let our sales people easily add to the roster by filling out a web …
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Note: this is the first entry in a two-part tutorial. You can read the second part here. Yalla makes you more productive. We use it every day at our sister company, the digital marketing firm Lemonade Stand. It’s helpful in all kinds of situations, but we just recently discovered a new use for …
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This one’s for the programmers. I don’t have to tell you about the benefits of GitHub. Chances are, if you’ve been coding for more than a few months, you’ve already seen the magic of its version control. Rolling back changes when something goes wrong, collaborating seamlessly - GitHub and the Git …
It’s easy to draw up a list of charismatic business leaders. Richard Branson. Coco Chanel. Lee Iacocca. These are the kinds of people we make movies about. They build or reinvent massive companies through the sheer force of their personalities. Everyone has tales of these leaders taking …
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