Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration’

30 minutes a day. I found this article to really hit home this morning. Finding time to work on side projects has been a long time struggle for me and continues to be. Some time ago I thought long and hard about how my development team could accomplish work on a side project without directly [...]

Exercise & Programming by Alex MacCaw. I can’t put enough emphasis on this article. I noticed about six months to a year ago that the ease of operating on 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night had seemingly left me. For a long time I would stay up late and get up early for [...]

Just do it. This is an encouraging brain dump to read. I think that although many of us have grown beyond high school we forget that the potential influences in that environment follow us for the rest of our lives. Even in our adult lives there are cliques, groups, and other gatherings of people that [...]

Forget Self-Improvement | Deliberatism. This is some truth. I think it’s all to easy to falsely convince ourselves that we’re interested in something we’re not, just to fit in with the crowd that much more. I know I love what I do, I get lost in it. I love many aspects of the things I [...]

Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes. I’m still a Linux geek. Every few months I’ll get this overwhelming feeling that I’d love to just drop my current workflow entirely and get myself up and running with Linux. I can’t explain why, it’s just really attractive to me periodically. With my Linux fascination I’m [...]

Give it five minutes – 37signals. This piece really struck a chord with me. All too often I catch myself dismissing something before I even hear the whole introduction or pitch. It’s an extremely prideful reaction to something someone else has likely put a lot of time, effort, and love into, and to push it [...]

The rise and rise of JavaScript « DanNorth.net. One of my resolutions this year is to continue researching JavaScript. Not jQuery, not CoffeeScript, plain old JavaScript. Reading this article by Dan North did nothing but make me want to read all the things. The article is a bit lengthy, but worth it. Dan’s explanation of [...]

One of the goals I challenged myself with for 2010 was to redesign Monday By Noon. I’m really happy to say that inspiration struck early, and I was able to launch the revamp much sooner than originally planned. I’d like to share with you the process I went through in designing the latest version of MBN, and also request that you check out the latest and greatest design.

Inspiration is very important to Web designers, it’s important to cultivate and care for it.

As a Web designer or developer, it’s important to make sure that your products remain top quality, regardless of any speed bumps you may encounter.