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Why Complaining Doesn’t Work
I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, but the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease.
The above is the actual quote (often commonly stated as “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”) attributed to American humorist Josh Billings. It’s from his poem “The Kicker” describing his frustration with being polite and not getting his way with the authorities. A kicker, by the way, is also known by a more common name: a complainer.
7 Tips For Marketing Your Freelance Business Offline
I walked into Wholefoods this past week with a list of things to buy. I walked out of the store with more than my groceries. I had three new business cards in my pocket. Each with hastily-scrawled notes on the back. I grinned as I packed my groceries into the car and headed home.
How to Handle Non-Compete Clauses
I had the chance to talk with another freelancer the other day: she’s been offered the opportunity to take on a six-month project where she’d essentially be working full-time for a single client. The money is good, but there’s a catch in the contract—a non-compete clause.
Learn From the People Around You
There’s more to work than just work. If you’re lucky, you’ll make some of your closest friends from your place of employment. There are many people whom I no longer work with but am still close to. I have learned some very valuable things from them. Here are a few tidbits….
20 + tags introduced in HTML5 you really should know
HTML 5 reduces development costs by making precise rules on how to handle all HTML elements, and how to recover from errors. It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich internet application (RIA) technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, Pivot, and Sun JavaFX.
The Ultimate Guide To Creating E-Commerce Websites With Magento (Part 2)
In the first part of the Ultimate Magento Guide, we covered the back-end features of this open source e-commerce software. We also created a simple product and displayed it in our e-store.
Today we will focus on “customizing the basic layout of our e-store”, “what Magento Connect is” and “how we can install themes + extensions”
The Ultimate Guide To Creating E-Commerce Websites With Magento (Part 1)
In the process of launching an e-store, when it comes to choosing the right solution, you will get puzzled by the hundreds of solutions available.
The options range from simple and free shopping cart systems to complex and paid e-commerce softwares which can charge you for both getting and “keeping” your shop online.
However, there are some applications which offer great features but still free.
Quick Tip: HTML5 Video with a Fallback to Flash
In this video quick tip, we’ll review how to work with HTML 5 video in your own projects. Because older browsers and Internet Explorer do not understand the <video> element, we must also find a way to serve a Flash file to viewers who are utilizing those browsers.
Quick Function: Inserting ads into your RSS feeds in WordPress
On my main wordpress site (rogerstringer.com), I like to display a single line below each RSS feed item that tells people quickly about some of my other sites. So I set up a quick little function to display a one line ad mentioning a blurb about my various sites.
Query Post And Pages With Multiple Meta Values
Custom fields give WordPress immense flexibility, by using them correctly you can create very complex applications with the same functionality you could only find in custom CMS. Now for us developers, one of the “problems” we might face using multiple custom fields is that there is no easy ( built in ) solution to query posts or pages based on these multiple values. If you want to do so you have to create a custom ( somewhat complex ) sql query which is clearly not an easy task for most people, and most important it ain’t a flexible solution you could just include from one project to another.
