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Gravatars Make Your Comments Stand Out!

A GR avatar is a globally recognized avatar. This is an image that you’ve associated with one or more email addresses - and when you make a comment on a blog or in a forum that supports gravatars, your comment will appear like this:

When you don’t have a gravatar, your comment looks like this:

And even though you may say something brilliant, it loses a little something, so set up your gravatar today - it’s free and easy!

Testing the functionality of Tyner Blain after a major infrastructure overhaul. Sorry for the interruption.

We’re dedicating our “blogging time” this week to doing some infrastructure upgrades - we have to address some security issues on the site. Until we get through these changes, we’ll be recycling some of our existing content. For our recent readers, it will be “new to you” and for our long time readers, we appreciate your patience. Today we look at one of our better received articles on active listening.

Hooray Us

We’re taking the day off to tip back a couple cold ones and celebrate a great year as a community! Tip a glass or two with us, and thanks for being here! Technically, we’re cheating - we don’t turn two for two more days. But here we are just the same.

This is an administrative post, to help organize the articles in our agile software development experiment. The feedback has been positive so far, so here we go…

In lieu of an article today, we’re updating our theme. There are a bunch of minor improvements, and two major ones. New visitors and regular members of the community should both benefit from the changes.

I’m taking a vacation thru the end of the year.  Hooray!  We’ve already written a series of short articles about migrating a development team to an agile process.  Those articles will appear over the next several days - we hope you enjoy them.
When I can get online, I will respond to comments and emails - [...]

The Tyner Blain blog is a year old today! Look back at some of our stats, including most popular posts, and a little bragging (not too much, we hope)!

If you sell products or services that Tyner Blain readers would want, or have your own blog and want higher quality ads check this out. Tyner Blain has joined a new ad network that should help us provide better ads for our readers. We’re really excited about the network, as the features seem to very effectively address the goals of both advertisers and publishers (bloggers). Regular readers - feel free to skip this one, see you tomorrow at our regularly scheduled time.

And this week, neither do we.
Have a great weekend, see y’all at our regularly scheduled time next week (every weeknight).
Scott