If you don’t know this already, I have a Psychology Degree and I’m build websites for a living. I have no formal training in programming or building websites. I often get nervous about the holes (large ones I have no doubt) in my knowledge due to the fact that I’m self taught. According to some
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I know a bunch of people that read this are working alone, which means your learning alone. I spend all day coding by myself just like this.
I’ve been in the same spot, waiting for answers on Stackoverflow to questions and searching my brains out. I even took a job with a WordPress company in the
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Awesome post by Edward Cassie on sweating the little details. I was just thinking about that at my local bike shop when I looked at the cable housing they replaced. Sure it all works fine, but instead of a black cable end (which matches the rest of the bike) they used the standard silver.
Sure they
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Since my late teens I’ve had issues with wrist pain. I blame it on bad cycling position (riding with my wrists bent down) and other types of manual labour (8 hours of shovelling for a summer anyone?). Yes there is surgery but I’ve found that I can manage it with the tips below.
KeyboardI type all
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Frederico Viticci shared his writing workflow. I too centre my files around Dropbox. My preference for writing app on iOS is iAWriter and I don’t use Evernote, I’ll write about why an everything bucket just hasn’t worked for me some other time.
I use Instapaper to store article I want to read and maybe write about.
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On a recent members podcast Shawn talked about the type Z personality, from a post by Sarah Bray. The short version of her post is that she only works for 90 minutes a day. She divides that 90 minutes in to 15 minute blocks and devotes the first 4 to 4 items that are time
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I just came across Take Five which is an app designed so that you don’t sit in silence while working. It’s happened to all of us, we are working then get distracted for a second and stop our music so that we can attend to the other item. Once we get back to work we
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After recently talking about your Tech Getting in the Way here is another post about your ‘dock’ showing what is a priority with the usage of your phone (obviously only phones with docks).
The Dock. That little area on your iPhone or iPad that contains a handful of apps which are available on every
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I’ve got an 18 month old daughter and like many (hopeful all) parents I want to raise a kid that is not self-centred. I want to raise a kid that doesn’t associate Christmas with getting stuff. I want to raise a socially conscious kid.
One of the ways I’ve thought about working to mould her is
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My friend Eric recently wrote about his quest to get the right fit in his life. It seems to me that he is trying to sort out the things that are most important to him and then set about doing them, and in theory, getting someone to pay him for it. Darryl at Loving the
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