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I really like Western Digital MyBook Essential drives. They’re inexpensive, they last (my 1TB drive is four or five years old, and survived moving between continents), and they’re reasonably quick. They have one drawback: a virtual CD they mount constantly. I’ve hidden the VCD on one of my drives using the WD software, but the …
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I either need to get better about posting these, or stop calling them “weekly”. The nGen Works Process wiki Inspired by Kelly Goto’s well-known publishing of her process in the early days, nGen have published a wiki of their process. This is an amazing resource for folks just heading into the industry or setting up …
I currently have two large external drives with a number of partitions I’m using to clean up and organize my accumulated files. I only need to see those volumes when I’m actually doing the organization, and I definitely don’t want to see them when I’m running the App Store, as they really slow things down …
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How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify There are a lot of posts these days about folks who learned coding driven by a personal project they wanted to complete. This is one of my favourites. Toggl I’ve had nothing but problems from the all-in-one time tracking, project management, and …
Last year I observed a web fast during Lent. It was really successful, so I’m doing it again this year. I want to share a bit about my thinking. Most people are familiar with the Lenten practice of forgoing luxuries or fasting. The purpose of this practice is penitence, and to prepare the mind for …