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Give Your Web Developer Information – Stop Screwing Them Over
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Here are a few times you never start moving a site around between servers. Afternoon – you don’t want to work all night right? Friday – you don’t want to work all weekend right? The day before you show the site to an important potential client The third item is what sparks today’s post. I…
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5 Terminal Productivity Tips
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All Macs come with Terminal.app installed, but few people really use it unless they’re developers. Even most developers I talk to have barely scratched the surface of what you can do inside Terminal. Lets look at 5 tips that made my Terminal usage way more productive. Create an Alias to Save Time If you repeat…
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I was Interviewed
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I did an interview on mattreport.com. It’s a one on one interview where I talk about WordPress, running a business and dealing with clients. Go have a listen
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Misk.com DNS Setting – Big Bag O Crap
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There are a lot of crappy domain registrars out there. Today I want to take a moment to highlight Misk.com. To start Misk charges you $10/year for most domains but has decided Canadians have more money and charges them $20/year. Pricing for .ca is a bit steep for me, but just wait it gets better.…
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Self-Publishing and Low Quality Writing
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In the latest issue of The Magazine (AppStore) Harry Marks talks about the pitfalls of self-publishing. In his mind it all comes down to the quality of writing being less than it should because you miss specialized staff in your topic. Even hiring an editor io not quite enough since freelance editors are generalists. The…
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So What Is App.net
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I have been an App.net user since almost the beginning. I’ve been using it mostly as a Twitter clone since I was fed up with Twitter and it’s terrible policies. ADN was never meant to just be a Twitter clone though. At least not according to Dalton the founder. I’m still not sure I see…
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Consultants are not Freaking Banks
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One thing I rarely do is take on expenses for clients. That means if they need a plugin to run their site, they need to be responsible for purchasing the plugin and providing it to me. I don’t purchase it for them, unless they want to provide me with a credit card. Here’s Why Then…
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Team Sky – Enforcing Omerta
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With the whole Lance Armstrong thing blowing up in the cycling world teams are scrambling to make sure that they’re not going to get caught up any scandal in the future. Team Sky is the big name out right now. They’ve enforced a policy that any team member be it a rider or staff has…
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Talk about Budgets in Order of Magnitude
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Budgets are something that most beginning consultants/freelancers have a hard time talking about. When you’re first starting you just need work so you don’t want to scare any client away. I totally get that, priority #1 is feeding your family (or your dog) and there is no shame in doing a good job of that…
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Run Away Estimate Costs
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One of the biggest time sucks in consulting is estimating. One way to combat this would be to bill weekly, but as I said I don’t have a decent answer to some of the questions surrounding that. When Estimates Get Away Doing one estimate, and a single revision for a client isn’t an issue, that’s…
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