- Above the Fold: Understanding the Principles of Successful Web Site De
- Adapting to Web Standards
- Art of Non-Conformity
- Art of Readable Code
- Art of SEO
- Back to the User
- Beginning PHP6, Apache, MySQL Web Development
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- Bored and Brilliant
- Born For This
- Choosing A Vocation
- Complete E-Commerce Book
- Content Inc
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- Defensive Design for the Web
- Deliver First Class Web sites
- Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty
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- Designing with Progressive Enhancement
- Developing Large Web Applications
- Developing with Web Standards
- Economics of Software Quality
- Effortless commerce with php and MySQL
- Epic Content Marketing
- Extending Bootstrap
- Foundation Version Control for Web Developers
- Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career
- HACKING EXPOSED WEB APPLICATIONS, 3rd Edition
- Hacking Web Apps
- Happiness At Work
- Implementing Responsive Design
- Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- Instant LESS CSS Preprocessor How-to
- jQuery Pocket Reference
- Letting Go of the Words
- Lost and Found: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
- Making Every Meeting Matter
- Manage Your Day to Day
- Marketing to Millenials
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- Pay Me… Or Else!
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- Preventing Web Attacks with Apache
- Pro PHP and jQuery
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- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business
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- Rules of Thumb
- Saleable Software
- Search Engine Optimization Secrets
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- Smart Organizing
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- Talent is Not Enough
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- The Benefits of Working with Git In Your Software Projects
- The Clean Coder
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- The Modern Web
- Think First
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- Traction
- Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition
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- Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide
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- Website Owner’s Manual
- Whats Stopping Me
- Work for Money, Design for Love
- Your Google® Game Plan for Success: Increasing Your Web Presence with
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- Eat That Frog
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Miscellaneous Tips
- A plastic ketchup bottle filled with raspberry, chocolate or caramel sauce and use it to embellish a dessert plate with zigzags, swirls, or polka dots.
- Christmas Tree Lights - go from bottom to top and back down again. Easier to remove provides better coverage.
- Life Savers - place candle inside to create stable base on a cake.
- Paper Towel Stand - ribbon organizer
- Reuse old plastic soap bottles as ice blocks. Fill to an inch from top, freeze. As ice melts squirt out of bottle for washing hands, rinsing, etc. Use to keep groceries cool.
- Measure dry ingredients over a clean sheet of waxed paper. Spoon onto a measuring cup and level the top with a straight edge (or butter knife), sweeping excess onto the paper.
- Once you've measured, pick up the paper and funnel the excess back into the cannister. Save the paper for the next time. If you like, or use it to line a cake pan.
- Use a bulletin board in laundry room to hand up useful items i.e. clothing, toys that have been removed, extra buttons, hotel sewing kits, mini scissors.
- File Rack - store cookie sheets and.or cutting boards in a file rack.
- Spring - a heavy gauge spring can act as a horizontal file to keep your papers upright.
- Twist tie keep cables organized
- File folder labels -cord labelers
- Napkin holder - bill organizer
- Track your energy levels - each hour and record them from 1 to 10
- Binder clips - attach two 3/4 inch clips to the bottom of a card or photograph for a stand up exhibit.
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Old ketchup bottle - use it to disperse pancake mix into the frying pan.
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Wrap aluminum foil around door knobs when painting.
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To get baked-on crud off a glass pan or oven rack use a ball of foil.
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Ice Cubes - Drop a clean mint leaf, a strawberry, raspberry, grape or a twist of lemon peel or even a peppermint candy.
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Colour & Mood
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Calm - stone, sand, wood and watery blues and lavender
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Cheerful - yellow, orange, pink, blue and green (vibrant & punch7)
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Dramatic - saturated tones - re, espresso brown, burnt umber, gold, blank
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Nostalgic - blue, green ochre, wood browns, warm, enduring colours, gold, silver, nickel and brass
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Filing Cabinets - Use a citrus based shipped and a metal brush to remove the enamel paint.
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Water Hyacinth -Infiltrating Lake Victoria so look for products made from it
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Storage - use a shoe hanger for barbie dolls, plastic jars for puzzle pieces
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Rubber Bands - use as a divider on a glass/jar - pens, etc.
Organizing in 5 Steps
- Maintain daily habits (and the habits of those around you).
- Identify the messiest, most chaotic areas.
- Change the environment. People do not change.
- Consider options (there are endless options).
- Make it unique. Make it fun. Make it yours.
Basics of Organizing
- Identify the significant pieces
- sort by (one or more)
- components
- sequences
- priories
- Detail to the required degree
Next Action
Organizing Email
I just finished reading Upgrade your Life: The Lifehacker guide to working smarter, faster, better. Wow, I am impressed. There are several great ideas. My favourite are the tips for organizing your email program. A short synopsis can be found on the LifeHacker website.
Basically, you restrict yourself to 4 folders - Inbox, Follow Up, Hold, and Archive. Amazingly simple and amazingly productive.
Newsletter emails
Naming Ideas
Naming is hard but it does not have to be. Every idea benefits from a good name, check out Onym's list of resources for naming.
I always need names for a bunch of computers. I found this site that provides a whole bunch of categories.
But that list was missing some of my favourites. I like to use trees:
Boreal Forest
- spruce
- pine
- poplar
- aspen
Then I found the Populate site, which is full of lists of names.
Here is some advice on choosing a name for your computer.
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