6 Career Tips From An Old School Programmer

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Here’s a bit of advice for you relatively new developers, coders, programmers or whatever you call yourselves at the moment: keep your skills up. Learn a new language whenever possible. Not doing so while you’re able to is one of [...]

What Career Type Are You?

For those of you just getting started in the web development and design arena, you might find recent economic market events a bit intimidating. When you’re looking for work, don’t forget the options you have available to you in terms of career type.
Career Types
Loosely speaking, web developers and designers have four career types to consider:

Salaried [...]

Building a Successful Blog: Sticking to a Single Topic

One of the hardest things I have had to learn as a blogger is to stick to a topic as there are very few readers that enjoy diversity in their blogs. Recently, I posted about technology on my own blog, and people got very up in arms. It reminded them of how other bloggers add [...]

We all need a break - right?

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Well It’s not often that I do a post like this but I think we all should every now and then. You see the sites like “How many 5-year olds can you beat in a fight” along with all those other tests. I recently discovered “How much money could you [...]

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Why Open Source is Your Friend

I have hired many programmers, and I have been hired for many freelance programming jobs, and in all of them, I find people trying to work in a way to develop their own code. They feel like it would take too much effort to change an open source application to suit their needs, or that [...]