Hello, my name is Mariusz Cieśla and my job is to make the web a better place.

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First thoughts: using basic CSS3 in a live project

Over the last couple of days, I was working on an internal project that allowed me to use things, I would normally had to explain to the client for few solid hours just to – most probably – hear ‘No.’. As Firefox 3.5 came out, supporting lots of features that are in the W3 standard, but were supported only by niche browsers like Safari and Opera, I decided to try out some CSS3 just to see how much easier the work would be for a guy who is used to doing all those hacks like sliding doors, sprites, matted GIFs and so on. Here’s what I think so far.

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Project goes live: Scrum For Success

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One of the great sides of working in Lunar Logic Polska is the fact that it has really cool internal and side projects. We’ve got RubyTime, utype, Rubyusers and hell lot of fun things to do while not working on a paid project. That absolutely changed my point of view on internal projects, since in my previous company, working on internals was basically an equivalent for being sent to the quarry.

Recently, Paul, also known as Agile Activist, started to run his podcast about agile project management with Andy of CodeSprinters. Since I was working on my paid project mostly as a consultant – jump in, fix few things, help team accomplish something, jump out – Paul came to me with a proposition of making iTunes Artwork and site for his podcast.

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