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16 July 2003

After trialling Mailwasher Pro for the last 30 days, I took the plunge (geddit?) and registered today. I’d previously been using the free version, but Mailwasher Pro is significantly better. I’d recommend it to anyone currently using an earlier version of Mailwasher.

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Today I was making some amendments and adding additional functionality to a web application my team wrote about 18 months ago. Compared to my current standard of working, what we did back then was simply horrendous. It works perfectly well, of course, but I wouldn’t code it like that again today. Don’t you hate it when you go back to your old work to make some changes, and don’t have any time available to fix it up and bring it up to scratch?! Drives me absolutely potty.

(beat)

I think the small-person has chicken pox.

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Jesse: Still wish i was in Devon at the moment.. my fiance won’t stop chattering about it, english accents lose their charm after a while ;)

    But ya, I always go back to stuff I did 1 or 2 years ago and think ’dammn, what were you thinking?’ Sometime I don’t want to admit that some of that stuff is my work.

    Working on the web is such an ongoing learning experience.

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Drew McLellan (@drewm) has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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