- Poster: My Strategic Plan
I see this poster every day. It keeps me in the right mindset. And it’s way better than those “motivators” posters.
“We have a strategic plan… it’s called Doing Things.” [get one for yourself]
- Annoying Zune Behavior – Ordering “By Rating”
I want to sort my music “By Rating” in the Zune media player software. This is natural. But what’s wrong with this track order here?
Yeah, the software puts the songs which have ratings above the songs without ratings, which in itself isn’t a bad idea. But this means that if you just start playing down the list of your favorite songs right after your favorite songs it’s going to play the songs you hate the most. Then it continues with the rest of your library in alphabetical order.
Come on, Microsoft… you can do better. Just put the most hated tracks at the bottom of the playlist when I sort by rating.
- Still Tweaking the Blog Layout
Decided to drop the rightmost sidebar when in single post view, to give a wider reading column. Hopefully it’s slowly getting better. Still spending a few minutes every day tweaking the new layout… hopefully it will solidify over the next week or so. Then I need to move the whole blog from my old staging server to my more reliable colo.
- Quickie: Learning Ruby on Rails Series
I’ve started a series about learning Ruby on Rails (quick jump to: Day One, Day Two) while building a web app called Whirlfood. It’s not instructional, but rather is reflective of the process of learning the language and my thoughts about the language and framework as I attempt to use it for the first time for a real project I intend to release to the public soon.
- FolioHD – Free Online Portfolio
For those of you who are interested in a super-quick way to create an easy online portfolio, I recently launched a site called FolioHD to do exactly this. We’ve had about 100 people sign up so far and had over 2GB of images uploaded already. So, yeah. If you need a portfolio site, you should try this free online portfolio site and tell me what you think!
We timed it and it only takes 60 seconds to sign up, upload some pics and have your site live. Beat that with any other site and I’ll be surprised…
