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It just isn’t a Priority
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But do you have an hour to outline a table of contents? Could you write 500 words today? How about emailing five bloggers that might be interested in reviewing your book this week?
Programming and Extending Grace
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We’ve all heard about the 10,000 hours it takes to get good at something. Maybe it’s 10k blog posts or 10k lines of code for you. The point is that you aren’t great till you’ve been doing it a long time and produced a bunch of terrible work. A great article takes this idea of…
Weekly Pricing for Web Development
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As I start the transition to weekly pricing I thought it would be a great time to explain why I think weekly pricing is a good idea for both clients and businesses. Less Lock In I know that I’ve been involved in projects that are going south, at some point it’s just going to happen…
Google+ Redesign Whiners
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I’ve been prompted by some discussions on Google+ about the recent design change to write this post. First off, I don’t mind the change at all. Really it’s pretty similar to the iPad version, which is the spot I have most interacted with Google+. It’s not a big change for me. More importantly, people hate…
Schwalbe – Ultremo DD Review
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I’ve already taken a look at the Giant PSL-2 and today we’re going to take a look at the Schwalbe Ultremo DD. This review comes after 4000km on the DD’s, which is enough that I wore the a flat strip on to the back tire. Performance Most ‘flat protect’ tires have a pretty harsh feel.…
Freelance Billing – Flat, Hourly, Weekly?
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I’ve commented before that I want to go with weekly pricing, but I just didn’t have all the answers. Like what if a client has an emergency and I need to deal with a crashed server? What if it’s a 5 hour project? Well in episode 15 of Unfinished Business they actually answer my questions.…
Dropping the Canadian Credit Card
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As we’ve been doing the Total Money Makeover one of the things we have been unable to find a suitable replacement for is a credit card. Statistically you spend 12 – 18% more when you use a credit card. Those numbers hold whether you’re in the US or Canada, and I’d bet that they are…
Ghost the Blogging Platform
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Well Ghost is up on Kickstarter and I’m pretty excited about it. I think that WordPress is just too much for regular old ‘blogging’ and Ghost looks great. I’ve got a few personal concerns though. I run a WordPress consulting business seems I really should be eating my own dog food when it comes to…
Wizards are Busy People
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Something that pretty much all development shops and consultants have to deal with is the fact that clients need everything yesterday. They email you saying they have heard you are amazing and they have a huge project that they need done next week. The funniest part is that they have a good idea that you…
Arguing Truth without Dismissing
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While Hackers & Painters seems like a book on programming and ‘nerds’ it’s got a bunch more to say about life in general. It’s not just about running a team and software design. When a politician says his opponent is mistaken, that’s a straightforward criticism, but when he attacks a statement as “divisive” or “racially…
