When is VPS Hosting a good option?
When building a website, there are many different hosting options. One option that is less expensive than a dedicated server is VPS hosting. Many website developers have found VPS to be the preferred hosting option for their websites. Read More…
Getting Away from your Desk Helps Productivity
I’ve been enjoying the backpacking season. So far, I have done three backpacking trips, and I am going on one more at the end of this month. As I have been distracted with my other hobby, I have not forgotten about this website. In this article I go through the importance of refueling and a different perspective on pain. Are you able to get away from your job? Are there things in your work life that seem to consistently and constantly cause pain? Read More…
Reflection Requires that you Ask Yourself the Right Questions
We live in a society that tries to convince us that we need to constantly work on our weaknesses. I’m of the belief that we should always be getting better…but focusing on where we do not succeed is not the best way of doing this. In fact, taken literally, this is clearly the fastest way in working yourself out of a job! Read More…
What are you shooting for?
I’ve been pre-occupied with preparing for the backpacking season. I just bought a Delorme PN-40 GPS unit, and I’ve enjoyed playing around with it and learning how it works. A quality GPS device gets good reception and accurately tells you where you are located. When you look at your career, how do you determine if you are on track? Read More…
Task Management: Prioritizing To-Do Items
Over the years I’ve used several different systems for managing tasks. Some of them were PHP based. More recently I’ve had the pleasure in working with a system called Basecamp. Read More…
Communication Should Not be an After Thought
Can you be too busy to communicate with your customers or your team? Is “no response” a valid way of communicating?
Does good communication just happen? Read More…
PHP: Cheap. Easy. Fast. Flexible.
People have different opinions in what they think is the best web programming language for certain tasks. Speed, ease of use, flexibility, learning curve, popularity and feature list are a few criteria you can use in “judging” a programming language.
Take a look at the positives and negatives that I see with the PHP language. Read More…
Website Specification How to Guide: Project Requirements
Creating a website specification is the most important task of a project. Get this wrong and the whole project can tank, including making an unhappy customer and an unprofitable project. Get the website specification right and you can meet the project deadline and bring in profit. The importance of this is often under estimated. Implementing these techniques to create the website requirements and the project timeline will make your life easier and your clients happy. Read More…
PHP Programming: The Benefits of Peer Pressure
Peer pressure often times gets a lot of bad credit. But in the programming workplace, what if there was no peer pressure? Would that be a good thing?
Let’s skin this animal and see what we find. Read More…
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