A few weeks ago I had a pretty rough time with something I was working on, so I thought I’d take the chance to share some lessons with you that I learned along the way. I’m taking these specifically from my experience as a developer of web-based systems, but I feel like at least some of them apply to a lot of other situations in life as well. YMMV.
Me, Live (ish)!
- Tweeted: RT @iamdevloper: You’re switching to Ruby from PHP why!? See you in 2 weeks when the honeymoon’s over. # (17 May, 7:31 am)
- Listened to Undercover Martyn, Two Door Cinema Club (17 May, 7:02 am)
- Listened to Undercover Martyn, Two Door Cinema Club (17 May, 7:00 am)
- Tweeted: Wow. Either an argument or a break-up going on in my building, and the woman involved is screaming like a banshee. And crying. And cussing. # (17 May, 6:35 am)
- Tweeted: .@path keeps logging me out of the app for some reason. Sad. # (17 May, 5:02 am)
- Listened to That Beep, Architecture in Helsinki (17 May, 4:43 am)
- Listened to Not In Love (Radio Version) [feat. Robert Smith], Crystal Castles (17 May, 4:39 am)
- Listened to Blink And You'll Miss A Revolution, Cut Copy (17 May, 4:35 am)
- Listened to Punching In A Dream, The Naked and Famous (17 May, 4:31 am)
- Listened to Summersun, Miami Horror (17 May, 4:12 am)
- Listened to Ultraviolet (ft Alan Palomo), Miami Horror (17 May, 4:06 am)
- Listened to Grand Illusion, Miami Horror (17 May, 4:02 am)
- Listened to I Look to You, Miami Horror (17 May, 4:00 am)
- Tweeted: RT @dotevan: OH: "You need to copy and paste your attitude to /dev/null, bro." # (17 May, 2:08 am)
- Bookmarked Open Graph Parser - A PHP library based on an RDFa parser, for parsing Open Graph tags out of a webpage/string. (17 May, 1:41 am)
- Tweeted: Fog City (at True Ventures) [pic] — http://t.co/E7S9vSLZ # (17 May, 1:32 am)
- Tweeted: Pro (Mac) Tip: Save text from a web page as a .txt file (copy-paste), then in Terminal type "cat FILENAME.txt | say". Boom, "podcast". # (17 May, 1:16 am)
- Tweeted: RT @teacup: I'd be happy for everyone to learn to code once they've learnt the basic, and more crucial, judicial reasoning that underpin ... # (16 May, 11:46 pm)
- Tweeted: At True Ventures [pic] — http://t.co/Rm2iAvpE # (16 May, 6:38 pm)
- Tweeted: Just trying out the camera in here. Nice UI. [pic] — http://t.co/LjVFkDTE # (16 May, 6:17 pm)
- Tweeted: RT @tferriss: Just pledged on Kickstarter -- Forage Kitchen by Iso Rabins: http://t.co/0vlerWPX If you're near SF, so should you. # (16 May, 6:36 am)
- Tweeted: Follow-up from previous post, in blog form: http://t.co/o2HsH1Hh # (15 May, 7:25 am)
- Tweeted: That was fun. Dude was *definitely* lining me up to try jumping me. Unfortunately for him I out-walked him. # (15 May, 6:59 am)
- Tweeted: Stalking someone to snag a better table to work from at a cafe... # (14 May, 6:27 pm)
- Tweeted: RT @wordpressdotcom: Photo Blogging 101, Part 1 http://t.co/47fHBkCl # (14 May, 4:18 pm)
- Tweeted: RT @JJJ: Querying Posts Without query_posts() - http://t.co/EGzH9tjV /via @wordpressdotcom # (14 May, 7:12 am)
- Tweeted: I'm learning Python the hard way. http://t.co/fbtQu6QM # (14 May, 7:12 am)
- Tweeted: Just watched "Attack The Block". Pretty damned good fun. # (14 May, 6:46 am)
- Bookmarked OSXNotes - Brilliant set of CLI commands and keyboard shortcuts etc for Mac OSX (10 May, 6:24 pm)
- Bookmarked Mom’s Apple Cake - Recipe for a delicious-looking apple/cinnamon cake. (30 Apr, 4:27 pm)
