Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Getting a New Desk
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Over a year ago my wife and I were privileged to invite a little girl in to our lives, whome we named Eden. As we live in 2 bedroom house my office was changed in to a room for her and I moved my office in to our bedroom. In all honesty the office in [...]
Drawing a Line with Social Media
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
It’s not news to anyone that social media is everywhere. We’re all on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Foursquare, Gowala…at what point does it all this sharing of our life become too much? How much do we let our personal and business life become intertwined? This is an especially poignant question for freelancers who do business under [...]
You Make Your Comments Suck
Friday, November 19th, 2010
Today Smashing Magazine published a thoughtful article on the state of blog comments. They cite our lack of time, A+++ comments, and a bunch of other stuff while they talk to us about the lack of meaningful conversation in posts. Sure we’re all flying this way and that way online in our lives but I [...]
I love Vim and Textmate
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
If you follow me you’ll notice that I’ve been playing with Vim lately. For almost a year now I’ve been a TextMate fan but something about Vim just called to me. Maybe it was the feeling that knowing Vim increased my geek cred just like terminal hackery does. Why Vim Really anyone doing any type [...]
Missing the Forest for the Trees When Coding
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
As a programmer I spend hours each day (yeah even many weekends) looking at code and while I love it there seems to be one specific issue that keeps getting me, missing obvious mistakes in my own code. The Catalyst The issue that finally broke my will to live and made me write this blog [...]
Staying in the Zone by Killing Distraction
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
The zone is that place where things flow. Birds fly music plays. It’s cheesy, cliche and sometimes hard to come by. Really the zone is where we need to be regularly to get things done. For many of us the zone only sometimes shows its head. We struggle to find it. Love it when it [...]
Power Breeds Complexity
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Yeah this is kind of an iPhone/iPod 3.0 software post. Sorry if you’re tired of it. We’re not doing a round up of cool features or anything like that so read on. My experience with my iPod 3.0 update was less than satisfactory. 3 hours 2 reboots 1 complete restore and I was up to [...]
Build Some Social Capital First
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Over the last few years social media has become a huge item for both personal users and business alike. Most people have a facebook profile. Many people and businesses now even have a twitter accout. But not everyone yet. I was recently asked to do some social media consulting for a business. They wanted to [...]
Web Designer Needed: Don’t Apply if you use Dreamweaver
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
We’ve all seen job adds like the title. One that bascially discounts you as a coder on the basis of your tool of choice. Once that basically says “real web designers/developers don’t use Dreamweaver.” I do use Dreamweaver. Oh yeah I also use Notepad++ and Textwrangler. I have tried coda (great by the way) and [...]
Becoming an iPhone Developer
Friday, March 20th, 2009
Although I have been an Apple developer for a while I haven’t done anything as far as learning how to code for OSX and I am not an iPhone Developer. Becoming an iPhone developer is actually an easy process. Just sign into your ADC account a sign up. There are 3 options for membership when [...]
