Manage Your Week with Timeboxing
My vanilla template. [Download XLSX] As we all know there is only so much time in one day. We can use various productivity methodologies to define & track what we need to get done in any given day …
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Be Sure To Enjoy The Ride
You know that stock job interview question where you’re asked to specify a weakness and you flip it to become a strength? Well, if you're like me then the next time you have a job interview (which for …
Canoeing from Loch Morar to Loch Arkaig
I recently came back from my second canoeing expedition in the highlands of Scotland. The first trip was fantastic but felt too short so we vowed to come back again but do it for longer. Fast forward …
Are you prepared for the long haul?
I had an epiphany this week. In fact it's been a month or two of epiphanies but this one was particularly important. Embarassingly it's one of those 'No Shit Sherlock' realisations, the ones we all …
B2C, are you sure?
For as long as I’ve been paying the rent by selling my skills in the web industry I’ve thought that I had a product in me. Back in the late 90’s I was a wannabe .com ‘founder’ working on terrible …
Project Management Pain
TL;DR - I can't find a tool that gives me high level scheduling overview AND individual finer detail on each project going through my little studio. Below I review a bunch of tools that don't fit my …
Green Woodworking with Mike Abbott
Since starting my beginner's cabinet-making course, I've been intrigued by the differences between modern woodworking techniques and the more traditional methods such as Green Woodworking (like chair …
A Blank Wordpress Theme
I've just uploaded a blank Wordpress theme called Naked that I built to assist those (like myself in the past) who have a need to quickly roll-out a Wordpress theme with a custom look and feel but may …
A Pragmatic Look At Symfony
On Thursday, I presented to around 30 developers attending the July Bristol Skillswap at Bristol's Watershed. It was my first-ever public speaking gig (if you ignore some sales presentations), and I'm …
Sharp Zaurus, Bluetooth, GPRS and a Nokia 6310i
The document describes the steps that I took (minus all the wrong ones, and there were many) to get a successful GPRS data connection using my Sharp Zaurus PDA, a Nokia 6310i, a Socket Bluetooth card …