Web Worker Daily is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs. They post lots of great content that focuses on productivity and getting things done for us web type people. One of their most recent posts – Five Steps to Get Yourself in a Mood to Work – offers some great tips for jump starting your work and getting you out of any “procrastination funks” you might (often) get yourself into!
The Printable CEO™ Series is a series of beautiful forms by David Seah that will help you focus your time more productively and help you manage the day-to-day chore of achieving your goals. Take a peak at these free PDF documents to see if they can help you organize your days, weeks, months, tasks and goals more efficiently.
How do you stay on top of your game in an industry where the rules are constantly changing? Web Worker Daily offers a great list of suggestions to help you Refactoring Your Career. There are some great suggestions and strategies that may just help you avoid the same fate as the dinosaurs!
For the first time in my working career, I find myself unemployed! I currently have a couple of job offers on the table and have put my name in the hat for an amazing position at an incredible company! So until I figure out which opporunity is going to work out for me, I am available for short-term contract/freelance work.
I have close to 10 years experience in the web development industry. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably have a good idea about the technologies I like to work with. If you would like more information about my skills, please check out my profile on LinkedIn.
What type of project would get me excited? Well anything involving Flex 2.0 (preferred), Ruby on Rails or PHP/MySQL would do the trick! If you have a project of between 2 to 3 weeks in duration, drop me a quick email at jim.rutherford@digitalmediaminute.com.
Have you just started your own web company? If you have, you are probably wondering how much you should be paying yourself! Entrepreneur.com has a wonderful article that might give you some great ideas on Paying Yourself From Startup and Beyond.
Digital Web Magazine offers some good advice on Handling Request for Proposal (RFP) Tension. The article discusses four areas of client/designer “engagement tension” or places in the RFP where client interests and developer interests are often misaligned.
Ryan from DropSend discusses The Cost of Bootstrapping Your App in his latest article at the 37 Signals weblog. These are notes from his recent presentation at the Future of Web Apps conference in London.
I just finished listening to Jason Fried of 37 Signals speak at the SXSW Keynote today. If you’re an aspiring web entrepreneur you should definately listen to what he has to say. If you aren’t fortunate enough to hear him speak in person, you can now download his latest e-book titled – Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application that has some really neat ideas on how to build a web app and the bennefits of starting small.
Ben Bleikamp shares his recent experience Flipping his blog – that’s right he sold his blog, and for pretty decent bucks! The selp-proclaimed entrepreneur set up a poker blog, loaded it with some original content (over 100 posts over 3 months) then sold it for $2,400USD. What I find even more amazing is that he only had 35 people subscribed to his RSS feed and he averaged 100 unique visits a day.
Evan Williams, who is the CEO of Internet startup Odeo, Inc., offers his Ten Rules for Web Startups.
