Learn a new programming language (basics) fast
While doing my best to understand Emacs, that I have been using as a primary development, writing, and play environment, I have felt the need to learn Emacs ...
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Weekly review: Week ending November 09, 2014
It’s been a couple of weeks without a (public) weekly review. And the main reason for that is, I’ve had almost nothing to report for them. Family, school, co...
Dealing with procrastination
Have you ever been in a situation where you want to do anything but the thing you are supposed to do? Maybe there is a task of life importance, and you just ...
Unused tools (and skills) get rusty and fall apart
I was having an interesting twitter conversation a few days ago. The tweet that started it all claims that most male programmers don’t have beautiful, or eve...
Why I quit my full time job to seek fame and fortune in consulting
There are probably many reasons people will say caused them to quit their job, but if you try to differentiate between all of them, you will probably find on...
Quantifying the pain your (potential) client is having
Are you a consultant, or maybe you have a SAAS product. You are really good at what you do (programming/design), or your SAAS it the best and simplest in its...
Overcoming the pirate mentality, and starting to value things
I’ve been brought up in a country where piracy was (and probably still is) imposed to you right from the start. Software licences being really expensive, and...
How to sell a new technology to coworkers (and bosses, by proxy)
Have you been doing programming for a long time, in some old and boring, non-intuitive language or technology? Have you found that new technology everyone is...
Weekly review: Week ending October 19, 2014
I didn’t do much beside regular work this week. I underestimated the size of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, so I’m still reading it, and it’s great. I ...
Minimum viable feature
We have all heard about the Minimum viable product, and it is a great thing to strive for, if you are doing software development (or design). What in hell ar...
You are not just a (Insert language here) programmer
This is probably be one of those rant posts, so beware. I was listening to one of the podcasts I try to regularly listen, and heard a good description of a w...
Taking out the trash (So you can have new, shiny stuff)
Are you like me, and have a couple ideas (blog posts, products, applications) lingering in your head? Are you also like me, and do nothing whatsoever about t...
Weekly review: Week ending October 12, 2014
I’m trying to do my best in organizing myself, hence these weekly reviews I’m planning to do more often, hopefully on a weekly basis. The posts probably won’...
How tracking time can make YOU more money without any additional efforts?
Are you one of the many people who don’t track all of their working time? Or maybe you just forget to do it all the time? Are you aware how much money are yo...
Select and de-select all checkboxes using jQuery
On almost every application I’ve worked on, there was a similar user story:
Getting through the famine period
If you are a full time freelancer, you have, or surely will encounter a famine period, because only thing sure in freelancing is uncertainty. Of course, with...
Why learning new things is so hard, and why you want it to be that way
Do you know that feeling when you are starting to learn something new? The feeling of being lost in all that stuff that you can not grasp? Feeling like an id...
Rails No-No’s: Not using background processing
Have you encountered a website with a very slow response? How do you feel when you have to wait for 5 or more seconds, for the page to even start responding?...
Impostor Syndrome
Are you feeling like an impostor in your team? Are you achieving things other members of your team appraise you for, but you live in fear, day in and day out...
Gaining more Authority by becoming an author
I recently read the book Authority by Nathan Barry, and I wanted to share what I have learned from it. The book is basically a course on how to self-publish ...