• 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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.

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  • Putting aside time to write

    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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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.

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  • I Have the Power

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    I wrote last week about Plugging other Developers and how I think it’s an awesome way to market your services. No it’s not as fast but it builds long term fans. Even better is that you can really make someone’s day when you say something good about them. By plugging someone else’s services I have…

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  • Shortcuts to make your Evernote workflow faster

    Shortcuts to make your Evernote workflow faster

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    I’m gearing up to write a few big posts on Evernote, but I figured I’d give you a taste today. Here are some of the keyboard shortcuts and methods I use to make Evernote more useful to my workflow. Evernote Shortcuts All of these are executed inside the Evernote application. ⌃⌘m – Move a note…

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  • John’s got it wrong: Auto-updates are a place for innovation

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    But one feature that that iOS 7 is bringing to the table is auto-updates for users for their apps – at first glance this seems like a really good idea but I think it’s the exact opposite. I think it’s a terrible idea. John Saddington I should start this post by saying that I’m not…

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  • Where’s the total cost of ownership Flywheel

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    I love trying out new services but I hate how secretive people are about the prices of their ‘beta’ services. Being so secrective means I’m not even going to bother trying the free account. Flywheel Hosting Flywheel sounds pretty awesome actually. Possibly even worth me moving off my Media Temple GS. Unfortunately I see nothing…

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