• Recapping the Paris Roubaix 2012

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    So far this year the Roubaix is my favorite race. I have a soft spot for the classic races anyway and this is the Queen of the Classcis. Outside of the typical crashes there wasn’t really much to say about the race till the 50km mark when Tom Boonen decided it was time to ride…

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  • Missing the Vibe in the Rails Community

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    For a while I was involved pretty heavily with the Ruby on Rails community. I did design consulting on a number of application interfaces and some frontend programming. Alas, those days have passed and I’m 100% WordPress and PHP focussed. Now I like WordPress and PHP just fine but one thing I really miss from…

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  • The Most Important Thing to do Each Day

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    RELAX, if you don’t take the down time that your body needs then you’re just going to pay for it later. I’m a form believer in taking the time each week to relax or do what you want. For me Friday morning I work on personal projects (usually recording a screencast on WordPress) then take…

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  • Lack of Safety is Way Overblown for Kids

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    As a parent I want to ensure that my kid is safe. I don’t let her run around in the kitchen with the stove on, she doesn’t play with scissors and if I let those things happen I’d be a bad parent. You can be a bad parent by keeping kids too safe as well.…

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  • Living Life Outside of What is Considered Normal

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    While I typically think profanity shows a lack of vocabulary this is a nice article about forgetting what society thinks you should be doing and just doing what works for you. What if you dropped out of school and walked across the country? What if you decided grades were sort of silly, and instead read…

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  • Let’s Make Sure That we Enhance the Good Name of Web Developers

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    If you’ve spent more than a few days building sites or software you’ve had an email or call where the client mentions: > It’s pretty simple, it won’t take long. Really I could do it but I just don’t have the time. It certainly gets my hackles up to hear that since it’s typically a…

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  • Great Writing Tips from a Great Author

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    Some great writting tips from one that would know C.S. Lewis. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them. Never use abstract…

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  • Don’t Call Yourself a Programmer or a Freelancer Even

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    Great article on why you should not call yourself a programmer. A few highlights below. Software solves business problems. Software often solves business problems despite being soul-crushingly boring and of minimal technical complexity. and: Engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things. Same goes for most sites, clients need to establish a…

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  • Sebastian Langeveld and a Spectator’s Bad Decision – 2012 Tour of Flanders

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    The lesson is when a bike is traveling 80km+ stay where you are don’t run like a deer in headlights. A totally avoidable crash that kills a season. Now the race organizers could also take a bit more effort to rope off sections where speeds are like this. They can’t barrier a 250km stage but…

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