Office Space
Behold, the new offices of Lord Design in beautiful Paradise, California.
Programming
The telecommuter’s whiteboard
So, when you’re working from home with a team scattered around the world, you don’t exactly have the same whiteboarding experience you’d have when discussing architecture with your team in person. But at least there’s a way to make it look like you do. Autodesk’s Sketchbook Pro app for iPad is an amazing tool, whether
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Cloud-based Visual Studio 6.0 IDE with IE 8
I’ve created an Amazon EC2 AMI disk image with Visual Studio 6.0/Interdev installed on it (SP 6). This product is no longer supported by Microsoft. Since I took the time to find the installer and get a version up and running I thought it would be helpful if I let others use it as well.
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Millennium Systems award
Big surprise, I received a nice care package from nextmill.net today! Apparently they’ve selected me as their web designer of the month! They have excellent support and I recommend them highly.
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Lorddesign.net 3.0
My website has received a much-needed facelift. Or should I say overhaul. I had actually taken it offline last year, seeing no point paying domain registration fees when I was saving up a down-payment for our A-frame. But it seemed rather necessary since I’m a freelance developer again. Not only has my skillset changed considerably
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Open-source coding standards wiki
I’m starting an open-source Wiki on GitHub for coding standards/best practices. The built-in Markdown compatibility and Git versioning make it an ideal place for such a project, as well as the wide adoption of GitHub itself by open-source programmers. If you search for “coding standards” on GitHub, there are only a few repositories, and they
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GitHub: for a more social independence
Those who leave a tech company to venture out on their own may have to face an adjustment in their workflow. No longer will you have someone else prioritizing your tasks for you or even setting release dates. Fortunately I had spent a few years practicing GTD before I set out on my own again,
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The Man-Month vs. the Human Narrative
Jef Claes, creator of 2011’s spring sensation arealdeveloper.com, just tweeted a link to a blog on the issue of developer turnover, by Erik Dietrich. This is a topic I’ve considered blogging about, and have probably hinted at in the past. But I’ll let Erik speak for us all. Erik says one reason talented individuals might
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Extending your EC2 boot drive in Windows 2008 R2
When you set up a new instance in the cloud on Amazon’s EC2 service, if you use the standard snapshots for Windows 2008 R2 hosting with SQL Server, you will find that your C: drive is much smaller than you expected it to be. Basically, you’re maxed out at capacity as soon as you upgrade
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Perks of self-employment
Perks of self-employment: Getting to brew my own coffee according to “best-practices” for portions, grind, etc. Snuggling with the kids in the morning. I get to control the thermostat. I set my own permissions on my own servers. My iPhone, wireless plan, and cable Internet are now tax-deductible. New MacBook. Also tax-deductible. If I’m up
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