Reasons to Fire Your Client
It’s something we don’t like to admit very often is it? No matter how great of a freelancer we are, no matter how fantastic your contracts and vetting process is, you’ll ultimately end up with a client you feel that you can no longer work with. Hopefully, you’ve protected yourself so that these occurrences are...
Read more…On Our Way To The UK!
Last week I posted about wanting to make it to the Update Conference in the UK and was asking for donations to go. I’m happy to say that in just one week, we made enough money to pay for our airline and conference tickets! I want to give special thanks to every single one of...
Read more…How to Be a Professional Freelancer
I get asked the question almost every day: “Just how does one become a freelancer?” While most sites will post a boring write-up on being on time, being nice and networking, I’m here to tell you the “real” nitty gritty of just what it takes to become a “real” professional freelancer. Here’s your very own...
Read more…Please Send Me To The UK For The Update 2011 Conference
Tonight I watched a video from FOWD featuring Aral Balkan. Normally, conference speakers really bore me, but there are a select few speakers out there that I really enjoy listening to, and Aral has now become one of them. He was able to take something so boring (the design of everyday things) and make it...
Read more…Think Vitamin Membership Review–Great Way to Expand Your Web Knowledge
I’ve been investing a lot of my time lately on learning new things. I prefer to stay a front-end developer, but I’ve always wanted to play in different languages and keep up to date with design trends. Following long how-to books really isn’t my thing, as I usually end up falling asleep before the first...
Read more…To-Do, To-Do, To-Do, To-What??
There are certain things this nerd goes really nerdy for – books, stuff in antique stores, dresses, interior design, Apple products and — notebooks. Yes, I have a strange attraction to notebooks. I enjoying trying out and collecting different kinds of notebooks. I’m not talking about the plain ruled kind you’d use at school, although those...
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