4 people worked together simultaneously on a single Google Docs spreadsheet. Each cell in the 100 row x 186 col spreadsheet was filled using 18 different colors. The entire process was captured in time-lapse.

You can get the original spreadsheet used in this video and learn how it was created at: http://docs.google.com/holiday

Happy Holidays!

This is more for the programming geeks out there than anyone else. If you are looking for a quick and dirty way to store your BlackBerry username and password when using the BESUserAdminClient.exe, refer to the following document.

It allows you to simply pass a secondary password that will reference the credentials stored in the registry.

To set the password:

To access the credentials from the registry:

Those that know me know I’m a big fan of 37Signals. Heck, I even applied for a job there once upon a time along with several hundred other people.

Over the last week or so they have been having some major issues with their campfire product. And in true 37signals style, they have an explanation and apology all wrapped up in one great blog post.

What’s so great about it?

Well, first off, its honest. There’s no marketing bullshit. No fake apology. Its sincere and straight forward. They had several issues, they laid them out, and took full responsibility for stuff breaking.

This was very productive for me at the office. At the beginning of the week, my boss gave us some pretty strict instructions that we needed to focus on getting some projects done. Basically, if it didn’t come directly from him, we were to tell whichever person was requesting our time that they needed to talk to our manager and we couldn’t help them. Simply put, we were getting too distracted by others pulling us into customer support issues.

My good friend asked me to do a web site for him and well, I finally got around to knocking it out. Its basically a business card web site but for an artist, its anything but cut and dry. Check out my latest development effort artbyluka.com

The site is pretty minimal as really, its best to keep the text to a minimum here and just show off the art work. One little item that I found a lot easier than expected was being able to harvest data out of facebook. With a little bit of coding, I was able to create a very function portfolio using images that were posted on the ArtByLuka fan page. The whole portfolio probably took me less than 2 hours to do. Its that freaking easy!