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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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Gravity Forms and SugarCRM Plugin Featured
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Click the link to see the profile on Sugarforge for my Gravity Forms SugarCRM plugin. They did a profile on me and the plugin. You can see the original post and screencast here
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When Reading Got Boring
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Normally I’m a voracious reader, to the tune of at least a book a week. I read everything from The Natural History of BC to Professional WordPress Plugin Development. I throw a bit of fiction in from time to time but really I normally try to make my reading learning focussed. Recently I just was…
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Helping our Clients Test
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If you’ve trained your testers properly. and you no doubt have, then they will be giving you bug reports with detailed steps to reproduce the bug. That, my friends, is programmers heaven. (emphasis mine) I’ve been reading The Career Programmer and while there are lots of things that make me remember ‘bad clients’ and ‘bad…
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Shipped Code or ?
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Prompted by a question about the term ‘shipping code’ I’ve got a short explanation. Shipped code is not just code that has been committed to your version control system. It’s not code that you wrote and is sitting in some folder somewhere. Shipped code is tested and deployed in some live environment. I classify a…
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Some Goals – Not New Year’s Resolutions
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Wanted to put a few of my goals out there just so that others know about them and I can’t cut out as easy. WordPress Finish a Product I’ve got more than one idea for a product with WordPress. Everything from training resources to full on plugins that I want and don’t see in the…
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Where Did MarsEdit Go?
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While listening to Mac Power Users do a workflow show with Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software I realized that I couldn’t remember the last time I opened MarsEdit when writing a blog post, it wasn’t even installed on my computer anymore. I even wrote that it was the best desktop blogging tool for Mac…
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