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…
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…
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…
Working a Networking Event
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As much as I do like going out to meet ups and local events, I’m terrible at networking for my business. I suppose I should follow tips like this but it just doesn’t feel like me. By nature I’m not pushy, I figure that my work and clients will speak for themselves. I do good…
Can RadioShack Nissan Trek Survive it’s Dissent?
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I’ve wondered how things were going with [Team RadioShack Nissan Trek][rns] (RNS) for a while now. Forget the lack of results for the team this year. Sure it’s disconcerting given the deep roster of athletes. The real issue seems to be in fighting and doing it publicly. First during the [Critérium Du Dauphiné][cdd] there were…
My Writing Workflow
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Today I figured I’d cover my current writing workflow. Collecting Much of my writing currently is inspired by articles read by others. I collect those articles from Flipboard on my iPad, Twitter, and a few email newsletters listed below. Freelancing Weekly WPMail.me Typicall I’ll open the link in my browser and then do a quick…
Again, Take a Break or Burnout
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Certainly not the first time I’ve mentioned the need to take a break and risking burnout but here is another note. I once knew a pro triathlete who I came to coach who decided to skip recovery weeks and press on regardless of how tired he was. He was never the same again. Overtraining took…
Awesome Cycling Videos
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Since I totally keep it a secret I’ll just let it out, I like bikes. I like everything about cycling culture and don’t feel like I get to enjoy quite enough of it. Today I picked out a 4 awesome cycling videos, all with a different feel and about different parts of cycling. Enjoy! ###…
Editing Code on the iPad
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Panic released Coda 2 (AppStore) and Diet Coda (AppStore) recently. Coda 2 will replace Coda 1 for me, it’s my cowboy coding (live on the server) tool and nothing is even close for that task. Probably more intriguing is Diet Coda though. On my ride to Seattle I left the laptop (13″ MBP) since carrying…
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