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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
Trying to Wrangle my RSS Feeds
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I follow a lot of RSS feeds. There are a bunch for WordPress, so that I can keep up on the industry news, and any decent tutorials. Then I’ve got Cycling related news and views. I’ve found that VeloNews covers the cycling world well enough that it’s the only site I really need for cycling.
The Hackers Manifesto
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Many (probably most) of you may have read this already. It’s called the Hacker’s Manifesto and it’s a great read. I confess that I had never seen it before. I was 6 when it was written. I fit lots of the things in the list. I did decent in school when someone could keep me
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