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Re: Public Enemy Number 1 for A Small Development Shop

Amme john — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 04:52:49 -0000

Hello, I also agree with CJ Andrew. And thanks Aaron for sharing this remarkable post.

Re: New Adventures with 10up

Tris Hussey — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:54:23 -0000

Congrats man!

Re: If I Had to do it All Again

Brandon Eley — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:01:26 -0000

I'm not quite there yet (40) but I can still appreciate your perspective.

Oh, and according to the Photoshop eyedropper it's blue and (almost) black. ;)

Re: The Internet is About to Become WAY Faster

CJ Andrew — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:19:11 -0000

I think this is a great step forward, and will do a lot for the entire web experience.

Given that eCommerce is now on the rise, HTTP/2 is a welcome enhancement.

It will be interesting to see how it will affect sites that use SSL (eCommerce sites). Most likely they may not need to do anything special.

It will also be interesting to see how WordPress plugin authors take advantage of HTTP/2, as it gets into common usage.

Re: Public Enemy Number 1 for A Small Development Shop

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:54:25 -0000

Thank you, CJ.

Re: Public Enemy Number 1 for A Small Development Shop

CJ Andrew — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:51:25 -0000

Here, here, Aaron. I agree.

Some companies/clients insist on the Net-30, etc. payment schedule.

It's a cash flow killer for independents (I think).

There have even been situations where change requests have arrived late, and pushed the Net-30 even further down the road.

The companies "put their foot down", and stipulate when the contractor gets paid, but expect that they (contractors) keep working till invoice fulfillment, even if the initial scope has been completed.

Its funny sometimes to watch clients stomp their feet, when told that payment is by milestone, and immediate.

Great post. succinct.

Re: Weekly Blog Post Challenge

CJ Andrew — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 23:33:53 -0000

A very good intro to your blog, and also to the Weekly Post Challenge (WPC). Challenges are a good way to blend commitment with accountability, and I think I'll be joining in as well.

Thanks for "rebooting" your blog

Re: Depression:What it Means

Bnpositive — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:31:49 -0000

Great post Aaron, thanks for sharing.

Re: Depression:What it Means

Athena — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 22:55:06 -0000

Thank you so much for putting into words something that I struggle with every day. Your description for bi-polar is right on the nose. My family is embarrassed and will change the subject quickly if I bring up being bi-polar. I am not medicated. On my best days I make things, create, clean, can not be stopped and will stay up for days. On my down days I can't even get the energy or motivation to take a shower. Luckily, the down days do not happen as frequently as the up days, but when they do, a sick day from work is taken, I close off to others, not responding to texts or messages. If only I had friends close by that understood this and would just come knock on my door so I can have company or get out of the house for a bit without asking for it, or feeling pathetic.

Re: Entrepreneurial Priorities if You Don’t Want to Despise Yourself at Age 80

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:18:10 -0000

RIGHT! Thanks, Brandon!

Re: Entrepreneurial Priorities if You Don’t Want to Despise Yourself at Age 80

Brandon Eley — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:16:18 -0000

This is something we all have to learn the hard way, I think. I can relate to a lot of what you're saying here... I used to work crazy hours. 8-5 at work, then working on my own business at night. Then writing, speaking, traveling around the country (and world). My poor kids hardly ever saw me for several years. For what? Not knocking the people who love that life, but I can't say it was worth it. Though I enjoyed spending time with all my friends and colleagues at "tech" conferences like SxSW and BlogWorld, at the end of the day it was just a bunch of people practicing the "fake it till you make it" routine trying to get the book deal or big consulting client.

Woke up one day and realized, it's not worth it. I still work a lot... occasionally on nights after the kids are in bed or weekends. But I'm at home every night cooking dinner and we sit down and eat as a family. I go to soccer games, karate testings, and cub scout activities. We go to the pool on Saturday and just chill.

I am still wildly ambitious, and will probably start another company or get involved in a startup. But now I realize you don't have to work 90 hours a week or neglect your friends and family to be successful. Success isn't about money, titles, or your VC-funded startup getting acquired. At least, when we're all laying on our death beds, that's not what we'll care about.

Re: Order – March 14, 2014 @ 02:10 PM

Aaron — Fri, 16 May 2014 16:38:00 -0000

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Re: NSA And Chaos Theory

Sean — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:05:55 -0000

I don't quite see it that way. Not getting the linkage to chaos theory, but that aside, I don't see it as being much different than what the likes of Google/Yahoo do with their huge datasets and related problems. It's impressive to be sure, but by no means unique.

If you have some time, there are lots of data science courses on Coursera.org. Taking one peels back at least one layer of the mystery behind all this. It's a fascinating world with a lot of ongoing research.

Re: First Thoughts on iOS 7

Benny — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:13:00 -0000

Well, after some more testing it turns out wifi is the culprit. Wifi turned on (even without connecting) is causing some massive battery draining and heat.

Re: First Thoughts on iOS 7

scott_m — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:11:18 -0000

Yeah, I think in terms of the user-facing feature set, it'd be hard to say that iOS 7 innovates. "Continues the convergence" might be a good way to put it, since each mobile OS has referenced, updated and refined features first found on the others. And updates within the supplied, non-deletable apps do bear similarity with third party apps that have been on the market for some time.

But at the same time, one thing that's clear from the "iOS7 for developers" marketing, along with the keynote, is that Apple are aiming to reclaim the sort of inter-app consistency that iOS encouraged at the start of the third party developer boom, but which they let slide since.

I wrote http://matthewman.net/2013/... without seeing some of the WWDC video presentations, during which Apple devs go into depth about the philosophy behind the new design principles and how to implement them (all of which are covered by the developer NDAs). But I think the true innovations within iOS 7 are not necessarily what has been shown to the public on Monday – it's on what third party developers have the opportunity to build into their own apps in ways the public may not even notice.

That doesn't mean I don't have my own list of things I'd like to see but which are, at least in this seed 1 build, not in there. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

Re: First Thoughts on iOS 7

Benny — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:40:17 -0000

Have it installed since yesterday on an iPhone 4s,
my battery life was reduced by somewhere over 40% and the phone was running hot all day.

I turned off wi-fi and Background App Refresh and hotspot,
the heat has since gone away and the battery percantage drop (the heat+battery life seemed very similar to using a navigation app) has stopped, performance improved as well.

I think the Background App refresh was secretly using location services without displaying the icon on the status bar.

The only thing i am missing here is a way to turn off the parallax effect, which seems like a useless battery drain. Apart from that it's very sleek but needs a lot of getting used to.

Re: First Thoughts on iOS 7

Aaron — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:26:49 -0000

Also, upon further testing, dragging apps out of folders in the dock causes the OS to crash.