Posted in Education on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday I attended a seminar at the local chapter of the Service Corps of Retired Executives called “Get Your Business Up and Running”.
It was a good seminar and well worth the $40 to attend. Guest speakers (mostly accountants) covered various topics on financial management, business entities, tax strategy, record keeping, and marketing. Although […]
Posted in Education, Programming/Software on Oct 13th, 2007 No Comments »
I just finished reading Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Expert’s Voice). I’ve been meaning to read it for a while, but my to-be-read pile is just insane these days. Part of the reason I put it off is because one of the thoughts I had was “Who the heck is Eric Sink!? I’ve […]
Posted in Education, Web Design on Oct 10th, 2007 No Comments »
So, after doing a bit of research it turns out what I need to learn to do what I want to do on the web — whether it be in Drupal, Joomla, or a standalone site — is AJAX, and more specifically AJAX in combination with PHP.
Sometimes it’s pretty crazy how hard it is to […]
Posted in Education on Oct 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
There are a lot of crappy business books out there in the world, many of them by folks who have no idea how to say anything useful. Most of them say the same thing as any other business book, regurgitate the same platitudes, and describe vague, general concepts without including any of the nuts […]
Posted in Education, General, Marketing, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Mar 10th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve found that there are some pretty handy educational podcasts available. “Drive It - Convert It” gives a lot of great information about search engine optimization, site tuning, and marketing strategies for a website. I have a huge pile of casts downloaded now and I’m sure I’ll mention any of them that are […]
Posted in Education, General, Marketing on Mar 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Today was pretty random. I worked a little on everything.
I spent a good chunk of the morning researching on the Digitalpoint forums and discovered a little about how Google Adwords works. Apparently it was silly of me to create just one ad to show for a campaign - the general idea is that […]
Posted in Education, Financial, Marketing, Music, Writing/Publishing on Mar 4th, 2007 No Comments »
I’d like to be able to say how many hours I worked today, but I don’t really know. I think, with the exception of food and restroom breaks, it would be “all of them” (depending upon whether you count research and education as work).
I spent a lot of the day reading the Warrior Forum. […]