Bracken King

Co-founder of Less Annoying CRM

Hey, I'm Bracken. I live in Boston with my wife Rachel. When I'm not working on Less Annoying CRM I like to put on my metaphorical labcoat and work on computational biology.

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Sending verified emails through Amazon Simple Email Service with DKIM and PHPMailer

Posted by Bracken King on May 22nd, 2012

One of the most frustrating aspects of running Less Annoying CRM (and, I'd imagine, just about any website) is outgoing email. We try to be conservative about email and only send those that are essential (login info, etc) or requested (specific featu... Read more >

FIPer: A modified FIP with even less dependence on defense and luck

Posted by Bracken King on May 4th, 2012

If you follow baseball at all, you are probably familiar with the concept of ERA as a summary statistic of a pitcher’s performance. You may also be familiar with work over the last couple of decades developing the concept of Defense Indepe... Read more >

Updates to Mac Chrome application shortcuts and the iOS fullscreen webapp generator

Posted by Bracken King on January 18th, 2011

Today I just wanted to mention updates to two utilities we've posted previously. The first comes courtesy of Mait Vilbiks who has generated an easier to use version of our Mac Chrome application shortcut generator (download the updat... Read more >

Visualize your Google Analytics data in Google Docs with a motion chart

Posted by Bracken King on January 11th, 2011

A while back I posted about how to automatically import Google Analytics data into Google Docs using a third party script. One of the coolest features of Google Spreadsheets is the motion chart which helps visualization of multi-dimensional d... Read more >

The very basics of writing scripts in Google Docs

Posted by Bracken King on October 7th, 2010

Last week, I wrote a post about how to perform a simple mail merge in Google Docs. In the post, I mentioned that I'd eventually talk about how to modify the publicly available mail merge program to send more advanced or tailored emails. Before... Read more >

Create application shortcuts in Google Chrome on a Mac

Posted by Bracken King on August 10th, 2010

One of the best features of Chrome is the ability to create "application shortcuts" that let you launch web sites as stand alone applications. Unfortunately, application shortcuts are disabled in Chrome for Macs. While other options exis... Read more >