Month: July 2013
Still subscribed to my Feedburner feed?
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Many of you know that Google Reader shut down. Given that I really don’t trust Feedburner as a source of distribution for my articles. As I look at the stats there are some of you that are still subscribed to my Feedburner feed directly. I’ll leave Feedburner around as long as they keep it but…
My daily scrum with James Strocel
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A friend of mine has been looking for a job lately. To aid in his search he started a great daily scrum video. If you’re not familial with a scrum report, it’s also known as a ‘stand up’. Basically James goes over the things he’s struggling with in his projects and how he’s trying to…
Maybe Lift will help you write
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Since I’m talking about how I write so much you should take a look at Lift. There is a good write up on it at WPDaily.
Putting aside time to write
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My friend Matthew has been trying to write a blog post a day and has been having trouble with it. I think that every writer has this at some point. They day to day of life (kids, laundry, clients/job) just gets in the way of what we want to do. If you’re thinking that this…
Less in love with markdown
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I love Markdown. It’s super easy to remember and write. I think that it looks less cluttered when you’re writing (especially links) and it gets a bunch of HTML markup out of your way. What I hate is the WordPress support for it in the editor. I’ve never found a plugin that works properly. Either…
We are all Sales people
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Great post from Brian about being a sales person. If you’re freelancing you are not really a developer you are in sales. If you can’t sell yourself then you simply won’t have a business anymore.
