I don’t know about you, but there are many times during a work week where someone ticks me off. It could be something small or something major.
I’ve always wondered what I could do about this, so I finally did something.
I created a Facebook application called Head Slap! It let’s you type in your friend’s name on Facebook and give them a slap on the head. Enter a personalized message letting them know why they deserve it!
Do I believe in SEO? Absolutely I do. Do I believe in link popularity? Absolutely I do. Do I believe in targeted keywords? Absolutely I do. Do I think it’s the most important thing? No, I don’t. I am going to reveal to you the true method to a successful website on the Internet!
Being well ranked in Google on specific keywords is good. Incoming links, both reciprocal links and one-way links are great. But it will only really pay dividends after you’ve focused on success, the true way. (more…)
Quite often at work, I find myself reminding my team members to be sure to ALWAYS utilize the framework to it’s fullest. Just because you are unsure how to do something or have never done it before in the framework, does NOT mean that it cannot be done!
I use to have this thinking as well. I would curse and curse, I’ve done this a 100 times, why is it so difficult to do with this framework!
Once I calmed down, I would Google it or look around the documentation and pretty quickly discover how to accomplish it using the framework. 9 times out of 10, I found that it was actually extremely easy to implement. Not only that, 7 or 8 times out of 10, it would actually save me time! If it didn’t the first time, it certainly always saved me a lot more the next time. (more…)
Sick days? What’s a sick day? I know at my place of work, we don’t take them. Today is a great example of that. I couldn’t even get out of bed yesterday, Sunday, but today, with work knocking on the door, I got up nice and early, popped some medication to get me through the day and here we are 9 hours later at home blogging!
Today’s article, won’t contain anything informative, just a message to other web developers out there like me, who feel like crap on the weekend, but still get up to work on Monday.
Sometimes, I’d actually take the day off, but today, like many days, I had to move a web site live. I knew if I stayed home and asked someone else to do it that it would be more stressful than not going in!
So, to all you other web developers, you know what, let’s not just limit to web developers, to all you other courageous people who get up in the morning, feeling like garbage, but still go in to work, CHEERS!
I’m hoping to be back tomorrow to blog another day.
During my first job interview as a web developer, I was asked, what I thought at the time, a weird question. “Jamie, on a scale of one to ten, what would you score yourself in regards to attention to detail?” I said what every employer wanted to hear “eight or nine, no one is perfect”.
It was enough to get me the job. However, as I completed task after task, it was clear that my attention to detail was more around a five or six. This was a contract position at the time with a possible extension, well as you can guess, I didn’t get the extension.
So what’s changed today? The obvious answer is a lot, but let’s breakdown things I now do differently to increase my attention of detail to the actual eight or nine I originally said it was. (more…)