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Have you ever had a coworker email you and then a few moments later send you an instant message in Slack or whatever chat tool you use? It happens. And more often than you think. Research from Gloria Mark from the University of California Irvine, who has studied multitasking, interruptions and workplace habits for the…
I’ve never been a big fan of setting year long goals. Especially when you consider that many people don’t provide regular checkins on those goals. Throughout my career, I have worked at countless companies and with countless managers, all who helped set goals, but did so in a yearly fashion. What I found through those…
While goals are likely the first thing you think of when you start a new year, I always find myself looking at new books to read. I always have a list of books that I need to read. Some of them have been on there for quite awhile, yet others have only recently been added.…
As 2017 comes to a close today, I’m reminded of all the things I managed to accomplish this year. Currently, my lovely wife and infant (I’ll refuse to call her a toddler until she’s 2), are taking a nap. I’m watching/listening to a movie. After seeing a number of year in review posts, I decided…
It has been a few years since I have hit publish on a blog post, at least on this blog. 2017 is the year to change that. There are over 100 unfinished, unpublished posts, sitting in my drafts, waiting for my attention to be edited, curated, even finished, before I am able to hit publish…
I was working with a client awhile back and was asked if it were possible to build an employee referral form that referred employees to the company. I had the following as some of the business logic for the task. Employee needed to have their own URL. Anyone going to the URL did not need…
In the last of this series we’re going to be looking at Nathan Barry’s content area. The one thing that I really like about his content area is that it matches mine in many ways. It actually was one of my influences when I was doing my redesign. I had two sites that really influenced…
One of the biggest features that I get asked by clients is that they want a great way of showing a portfolio on their site. Studio Press’ Modern Portfolio theme does just that. Whether you are a photographer or a designer, this theme can really make your artwork shine. Well you don’t have to buy…
Headway’s Content Block is quite versatile. Hopefully this series is showing just that. In today’s video I’m going to show you how to go through breaking down iThemes’ Cohen theme’s content area and show you how to create it with Headway’s Content Block. iThemes creates some really impressive themes for their Builder framework. There’s definitely…
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Check out what can be done with Jing on a Mac! I was talking around the office today and decided I wanted to know if Jing could capture the dashboard and some widgets. Guess I was right! The hint is that you need to use your hotkey, by default on a Mac it???s Command +…
So tonight I created a video for my friend RobinYap on how to add watermarks to tons of files using SnagIt‘s Batch conversion process. Take a look!
I am pleased to post these tutorials that I have been working on for the last few weeks. These are something that took a lot of time to do since Camtasia Studio was giving me a little problems and then my hosting solution had to change over as well. I have decided to post these…
I had a friend email me a couple of cool sites the past few days and wanted to share them with you. First off is Twitter. Twitter is a social networking service that allows members to inform each other about what they are doing and what they think. It allows users to send message via…
So I had a few people ask about the WordPress tutorials and I wanted to let everyone know that they are done, but I ran into a few snags with getting everything working right with Camtasia Studio, which is what I recorded them in.? I think I have everything working ok now and I will…
Today I thought I would talk about WordPress and the creator of WordPress. WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It is the official successor of b2cafelog and has a thriving user and developer community. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, so WordPress is…