I’ve migrated my blog from mustfollow.wordpress.com to mustfollow.blog, and then off of Automattic’s WordPress.com entirely to self-hosted, now at blog.lorddev.com. I’ve changed the theme as my previous one was quite outdated. But the Tolkien quote doesn’t really fit anymore, so I need to think of a new blog title. I set up an App Service […]
I’ve been using Evernote for several years. A few months ago I started using an app called Zendone for my GTD workflow. This required a bit of an adjustment, because it has categories within the app which don’t actually correspond to Evernote tags or notebooks, and it uses the titles of your Evernote notes to create
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a nice infographic for my blog, as an annual report for 2012. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have
Who needs an app when you’ve got the real thing? (Seriously, these babies run for about $3 on eBay.)
I designed this using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro for iPad.
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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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I spent the day trying to install Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 because my Amazon EC2 fees are too high. It didn’t work. The Windows installer said the partition created by Bootcamp wasn’t compatible. When I tried it on my wife’s PC, it said I couldn’t install Visual Studio because I didn’t have the
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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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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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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