• Do We Support Older Browsers?

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    I’m sure that most of you have heard about Kogan charging IE7 users extra ‘tax’, to support that old browser. My friend Eric wrote a good post on this. This stuck out to me (and made me laugh out loud). I’m in the business of building applications, not supporting someone’s fetish for being stuck in…

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  • Why Microsoft Word is not a Tool for Me

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    This article got me thinking again about my workflow. I don’t use Microsoft Word at all. I’m not sure I’ve ever even purchased a copy of it. I only use Pages (AppStore) for client proposals and contract since I want them to look really nice and they are presented via PDF. For most people now,…

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  • Beginning Cyclist Training – Training to Train

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    If I could do one thing when I meet a new cyclist, it would be to impress upon them the need to rest when training. In fact a new cyclist needs to rest much more than an experienced cyclist. Their body has not even learned how to train yet. Your first year (maybe 2) of…

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  • Adobe Takes Mobile Testing Forward with Adobe Shadow

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    Like many web devs, I work locally. That means all of my current projects are running on my laptop with MAMP (MAMP Pro for me) and I can work on them even if I’m offline. I also domain map, which means the location of this site on my laptop is dev.curtismchale.curtisdev.ca and my laptop just…

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  • Peter Sagan vs Mark Cavendish – Finally a Sprint Competition

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    Typically I’m not much in to the sprint stages in the [Tour de France][tdf] races, actually in any race. They follow a predictable path. 1. There is a breakaway 2. It’s caught in the last few km leaving everyone to wonder why it even happened 3. Sprint to the finish and [Cavendish][cav] takes it At…

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  • Back Up and Legal Stupidity

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    I’ve gone over my back up solution before. If you’re not backing up in 3 spots with one offsite, then you’re simply doing it wrong. Seems there is a lawyer in my country of Canada who was doing it wrong and now wants Apple to pay for his stupidity. The short version of the article…

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  • Time Estimating Fairytale Land

    Time Estimating Fairytale Land

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    Like many programmers, I often live in project time estimating fairy tale land. I think that everything will go as planned and of course I’ll bill 6 hours each day. The fact is that life happens and when life happens, often work doesn’t happen. Another common mistake made when estimating software development centers on the…

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  • Getting Work in the Door with Business Marketing Ideas

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    Every business needs to get work through the door, but the livelihood of the solo freelancer depends on it. Work for a freelancer comes really based on building your reputation for quality work. Without good business marketing you’re probably not going to be brining in the work you want and it’s going to take a…

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  • Is SEO Really What We all Need?

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    As you can tell I’ve really cranked up the posting frequency on this site. I’d love to increase the readership, and even make some money with the site. So what do I work on, SEO or content? Of course content is important, even with the best SEO crappy content means no one will stick around…

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  • Bruyneel Tries to Fix the Horner Debacle

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    So Johan Bruyneel [responded][res] to the whole Chris Horner misunderstanding. It seems that not everyone may have been quite truthful in what they knew about and did not know about in regards to the requirements laid out by the team to be included in the Tour de France. I don’t actually care where the truth…

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