Becoming A Better Developer For 2011
It’s time for the New Year to begin so we all know what that means – an excuse to learn and become something better than we already are1 For the holiday months, I’ve spent a ton of time learning, reading and trying out new coding techniques to find out what works best. Every site I...
Read more…Set Up Your Business for the New Year
The New Year is the perfect time to take a step back and examine your business and plan some new goals. While you should be working on your business throughout the year, nothing is more important than sitting down and taking a good hard look at where you are and where you want to be. A year...
Read more…Smashing CSS by Eric Meyer
Smashing CSS is the first book I’ve read from Eric Meyer. After hearing so much about him though, I had high hopes his book would be awesome, and I wasn’t disappointed. This book was pretty awesome, so much so, that I learned several new things in the first couple of chapters (and I thought I...
Read more…jQuery: Novice To Ninja
After messing with Objective-C and iPhone apps all summer, I decided to take a break and learn something fun and that I can use with my clients now. Advanced jQuery has been something I’ve been wanting to learn for some time now. While I understood the basics, as far as implementing and skinning existing plugins,...
Read more…How to Quote Projects for Work You’ve Never Done
Even when we list out our services on our portfolios, you’ll always get quote requests for something you’ve never done before. You can always refuse to do the project or hand these requests off to another freelancer. But, what if you’re actually interested in doing the work? I was recently contacted about doing some work...
Read more…Six Awesome Gifts Especially for Your Favorite Freelance Developer
It’s that wonderful time of year again–the holidays, Christmas and a time for giving. When shopping for your favorite developer (that’s me, right?), it might be tough trying to figure out what to get them. After all, it might seem like we developers have everything from iPads to Androids to big screen LCDs. So let’s take...
Read more…