The (Dis)Advantages of Working From Home
Being a freelancer means you often have complete freedom on where to work. However, we tend to stay at home and work from our beds, dining room tables, a corner in our room, or if we’re lucky enough, a whole room dedicated as an office. What we mostly do not do, is leave our home...
Read more…12412 – Experience and Learn 12 New Web Technologies in 12 Months
I stumbled across 12412.org when looking at Paul Davis’s work. Consisting of three developers including Paul, Anthony Killeen, and Stephen Fulljames, 12412 aims to log their activities throughout 2012 as they choose a new technology or technique every month to learn and play with. I thought this was a fantastic idea. I’ve had an insanely...
Read more…We Are The Developers
We are the developers. We work behind the curtains. We rid the world of bugs. We stay up late and wake up early. We’re always innovating. We’re on the bleeding edge. We’re closer to each other than any other industry. We’re not required to have credentials; yet we’re the most educated. We know more languages...
Read more…Where Are You Going?
I thought this week would benefit from a nice reader discussion. So I want to know - Where do you plan to be on this exact date next year? How will you get there? Please leave a comment so others can learn as well!
Read more…State Of the Developer 2011
Our industry is changing more rapidly than ever. It used to be that you could stay unconnected from the news and web for several months and check out industry news once or twice a year and be caught up within minutes. Now it seems you can’t even turn off Twitter for a day without missing...
Read more…Contemplating Important Decisions
Hey guys! I’m in the UK this week, so you won’t get a regular blog post from me. While this trip is about the Update conference and meeting industry friends and family, it’s also about making some important decisions this week about where I want to take this business and my own personal life. I...
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