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An unofficial 10 year anniversary

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

For many good folks, 2009 marked a year of bad after bad then some more bad for good measure. And for us too, what started as an extraordinary year, ended with an "oh la la, is it grave doctor?"

Evolution: a cult of French media

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Canal+ is a brand that is internationally known as a producer of celebrated films and locally recognized as a revolutionary premium pay TV channel (fellow Americans, think HBO x10, squared).

Deadlines are OK

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Did you know that back in the day a "deadline" was a line around a military prison beyond which a prisoner may not go without risk of being shot? Did you also know that "OK" is a term used after a military battle that means "zero killed"?

We twerps are tickled by tweeting

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It's not the call of the wild nor a series of short, sharp shocks, no sir it's Twitter and if it pleases, you can follow us at: twitter.com/opticalcortex...

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

There are many people out there that contribute to the Ruby community with little recognition and no pay. The Ruby Hero Award was set up to give these folks the recognition they deserve...

A brief history of an agency website

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

AREA 17 opened the Paris office in 2006, three years after the company started in New York City. At that time, we had decided to launch a new website to mark our entry into the French and European market...

Action sports with a keyboard

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

You may have noticed that we've been doing a lot of action sports lately (ahem) well with our keyboards that is. With all this talk of action sports, art director "David Lamothe and creative director Kemp Attwood got together to take on the French Alps...

Building momentum for open source sewing

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

How to be productive ... even in Windows

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Our very own Luis Lavena will be speaking at the Rails Summit Latin America.

A music player that is a brand apart

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

As you may know, last year we rebuilt the Giant Step Jukebox that we had done for them back in 2003. One of the new features we introduced is the ability for Giant Step to create custom feature players that have a custom look and can be deployed on other websites...