• Reviewing the Giant P SL-2 Road Tires

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    One of the most important things to get right on your bike are the tires (or tyres if you swing that way). They are your connection to the ground. A great set will let you ride fast, safe and stay relatively flat free. A bad set will leave you feeling nervous on fast corners or…

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  • Free Sublime Text 2 Course

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    Sublime Text 2 seems to be the spiritual successor to the much loved Textmate. I’ve tried it and even own a license, but it just hasn’t stuck. Well there is a new free course out on Sublime Text 2 courtesy of Jeffery Way. It’s on my list to do the course now and see if…

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  • Freelancing Advice

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    One of the regular podcasts I listen to is Ruby Freelancers. Sure it’s got Ruby in the name, but it’s way more about freelancing than it is about Ruby. In Episode 28, they had Sammy Larbi on who is a relatively new freelancer. They talked a bunch about rates, clients asking for cost reductions, marketing.…

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  • A Journey Through Code Editors

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    By default I’m a Vim (MacVim) guy. I made the jump to MacVim and the keybindings have stuck with me, so much so that any time I’m typing anything I end up with :w at the end of lines. But it always feels like it’s missing something. Update May 16, 2014: I’ve put a bunch…

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  • Yes I Just Marked You as Spam

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    In the last few weeks I’ve been getting an increasing amount of emails from all the social networks I’m a part of. Linkedin started doing news, and felt I needed another email. Twitter decided to start emailing me friend suggestions. Further back, they decided I needed some sort of summary email each week. Facebook decided…

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  • The Decentralized Social Network – A Nerd’s Wet Dream

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    I got involved in a decent discussion about decentralized social networks on App.net this week. We were talking specifically about the Tent protocol. WTF is Tent Tent is protocol that anyone can use to communicate with any app, site, thing that supports the Tent protocol. Theoretically many services doing slightly different things could talk with…

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  • Coworking in Abbotsford

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    For a while now there has been a push to get a co-working place setup in Abbotsford. I’ve seen a bunch of interest from other developers and designers in the area. As is the case with many things like this, it doesn’t seem that when SwitchCube asked for money for the first month that many…

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  • Rules of Writing

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    10 great rules for writing with this one being my favourite and the hardest for me at the same time. Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet. I fit writing in between building websites for clients. Sure I could disconnect for the 20 – 30 minutes I use to write an article.…

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  • Why Blogging

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    Nice post by Matthew Lang on why you should blog. The whole point of this is that when you’re blogging, you’re writing. When you blog a lot, you write a lot and eventually, well hopefully, you’ll get better at it. I’m hoping that with all this blogging, I’ll become a better writer. I enjoy writing…

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  • Team Sky – Staffed by Adults

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    I’ve written more than once about the troubles of RadioShack – Nissan Trek and how it seems few adults work there. I mean, airing your displeasure to the media before your talked to the other person…sounds like high school to me. Let’s take a look at another team, Sky. They’ve been hugely successful this year,…

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