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Author: Clockwork
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I Wasn’t Like Everybody Else
When I came out in the late 80s I felt like there was no place for me. It was considered a really rebellious thing to do. More than not, the people in my life reacted well (except for my parents, but they eventually came around). But culturally speaking, coming out was like saying there was something…
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CEO Nancy Lyons honored with Progress Minnesota award
On Tuesday, April 16th, our CEO Nancy Lyons was honored by Finance & Commerce with a Progress Minnesota award. The Progress Minnesota program recognizes individuals and companies who are driving business and industrial growth and economic development in Minnesota in unique and innovative ways. Only 19 companies and eight individuals received awards, so not only is…
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The real solution to the “Work From Home” debate
Sparking the debate Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, caused a pretty significant wave across corporate America yesterday with her sweeping mandate requiring all employees to report back to the office for active duty. In other words – Mayer is eliminating a work from home policy – the kind of policy that Internet companies made famous in…
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Fixing the font mess in your CSS: @font-face and the font-family / font-weight saga
Web fonts are a great way to give your website a unique design, but embedding all of the necessary font-files can create quite the mess in your CSS. Unfortunately, many of the online tutorials and font-face kit generators give incorrect examples (and are just plain doing it wrong). So, to save you time and fonts-face-related…
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SSH Agent Hijacking
When ForwardAgent Can’t Be Trusted SSH without passwords makes life with Unix-like operating systems much easier. If your network requires chained ssh sessions (to access a restricted network, for example), agent forwarding becomes extremely helpful. With agent forwarding it’s possible for me to connect from my laptop to my dev server and from there run…
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The Truth About The ‘Best’
The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy at Clockwork. In just the last few days we’ve launched some major client initiatives that we’ve been working hard on for months. And while we kept our heads down and our efforts focused two other events happened, and I really wanted to mark them in time.…
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10 Years Of Clockwork
A mentor once told me that all of my ideas about work culture were pointless unless I had the numbers to back them up. He went on to emphasize again what most business owners and leaders trumpet — the best definition of success is in the numbers. I agreed with him, of course. I still…