Moving on from Media Temple
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I’ve got a bit tired of Media Temple’s GS and it’s latency in the WP admin. You my dear readers that aren’t logged in see a fast site but when I’m writing posts or doing any admin stuff – dang it’s slow. That also goes for me when I’m logged in and am looking at…
Supercharge Evernote with Context Booster
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This looks awesome to help supercharge your Evernote notes.
Stuck
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I watched Horrible Bosses last night. The premise is that these 3 guys have terrible bosses and that they are ‘stuck’ in their jobs. They have to put up with all this crap for their bosses and have no place to turn but stick with that job. That is a load of bullshit If you…
Inbox 0 with Mailbox and Boomerang
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I try to accomplish inbox 0 each day. It doesn’t always happen but I almost never have more than 2 or 3 emails sitting in my inbox at the end of the day. I certainly don’ think that inbox 0 is the ‘dream’ that some people do. I see it on a regular basis. The…
Content consumer vs content publisher
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When it comes to my online presences I am two things. Their order changes based on context. Consumer of content Content publisher I often find that based on context my desires/actions are 100% opposed. Consumer of content As a consumer of content I’m critical of titles. I hate to see something sensational in the tile…
New post on WP Realm: Upgrade your client services with documentation
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I’m trying to contribute to some other sites and today I put up an article on WP Realm about how you can improve you clients services (and charge a bit more) by providing proper documentation. Comments are off so if you have stuff to add visit the post.
Strategies to stop wasting time
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As a solo consultant I don’t make money unless I’m billing it to clients. That means coffee breaks and lunches aren’t paid. Talking with the neighbour is not paid. Getting the mail not paid. So how do I keep myself on track with projects so I can be sure I’m getting paid each week? Define…
Shipping often – not just for SAAS
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You need to read this article on shipping software. It’s not just true for SAAS software it’s true for client services. Decreasing your code shipping time can improve your client relationships. Let my walk you through how I deploy code and databases during site development and why I think it helps my client relationships. One…
Looking a Medium
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Medium looks really interesting as a content platform. There are reasons that the content seems to be higher quality (and read the comments) than on personally run blogs. At the same time there are reasons you may not want to write on Medium The design card Medium demolishes and destroys Blogger and WordPress.com in design……
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…