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No Communication - No Problem

I recently had one of the most interesting projects I think I've ever had. I should have been really aware of what was going on when I was trying to get a hold of the potential customer and had a really hard time getting a call back. Then when I looked at the code I could tell it was a copy of another product that was commercially available. All things that should have been a huge clue for things to come.

The lesson here is to trust your instincts. If the client isn't willing to communicate with you, it's time to cut bait and fish somewhere else. I figured after countless attempts to get someone on the phone, and three invoices that never got paid, let alone acknowledged, it was time to stop waisting time and move on to clients willing to communicate and pay their bills.

Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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Hardware Issues

It never fails. As soon as I need to get to my computer, and I mean, really need to get something done, some part of the hardware fails. I just love those little error messages that you get that talks about some error at some unknown memory address. Yeah, one of those lovely little deals, and I'm starting to get the more and more frequently. This is why everyone always tells you to back your stuff up, and luckily I did just that.

I'm very fortunate that I have all my business files backed up offsite and my Mac is always in good working order. This has saved me on more than one occasion because I can't seem to keep this Windows 7 machine running. Don't get me wrong, when it's working it's a great machine with a great operation system, it's just with all the memory conflicts and whatnot, it gets very frustrating trying to keep this box running.

Posted: Monday, February 08, 2010

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Super Simple CMS

I can't believe it's been almost a month since I last contributed content to this site. Yes I have been a slacker when it comes to blogging, but I haven't been a slacker when it comes to work. Projects and customers have been keeping me busy, as well as a few side projects that seem to be getting more and more involved on a daily basis. But the amount of work I have isn't the topic for today. No, it's more centered around build a super simple, yet highly creative website using my favorite little framework Django. As I start to speak to more and more clients, I've found that more people are checking out my personal website in order to get a look at the type of work I have been doing. One problem! My personally branded name website hasn't been updated in about a year and the style and techniques are not things I usually do on projects. No I like jQuery and Django and I like to mash things up, my personal site does none of that. So I've embarked on a quick and simple project to give myself that "refresh" that I've so desperately needed.

Posted: Thursday, February 04, 2010

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We Are Changing

I don't know if I wanted to call this a change or a maturing. This blog has served me very well over the past few months, but now it's time to change a tad so that we can keep up with the times and the growing need of my readers. With that said, I'm officially able to say that we've grown up in a big way.

As many of you know i started this blog as an experiment really, on how to build, attract, analyze and maintain a website. What I didn't expect, was for people to actually call me and offer me gigs on doing those vary things for them. We'll call them "clients", or "friends" in need of a face lift. Well I'm no surgeon, but I can dissect a website fairly well, and I can tell what's going to work and what isn't.

However, I couldn't do it all alone, so I had to hire someone. Then I quickly figured out that there was really too much work for two people to do, so I hired a third. Yup, that's right. There are now three of us working for "Yet To Be Named Company".

Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 2010

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