Today, I got reminded of an important thing one must never forget, but over time, we do: Assumption is the mother of all fuckups Got around bug-hunting this afternoon on an agency project. Providing some support on the infrastructure their hosting on, it seemed that users lost their session after a while. Running on a … Continue reading Lesson well learned
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Three months have gone by without single post. Shame on me ^^ . It’s not that I don’t have anything interesting to write about, but it’s been a hectic time. Besides the projects I already had in the pipeline, I got involved into a pretty large project that just got started. Initially, it was only … Continue reading Busy times
Talking to freelancers about how to set a decent rate is like the ideal opening to start a debate. Do you charge by the hour, by day or per project? And how do you define the rate? When you charge by day, do you multiply your hourly rate times the hours you work in a … Continue reading Setting your freelance rate
One of the typical fears most freelancers have or even people that want to get started, is the unknown factor of costs and income. When you start off, you probably already know what kind of products or services that you want to provide, but you get kind of stuck on the financial part. Even if … Continue reading Keep track of your cash flow
The occasion might right from time to time when you need to merge multiple pdf’s. There are several ways to do this on Mac, but none of them worked out for me. This by a simple reason, the pdf’s where signed and secured, so I was unable to merge them using preview or other visual … Continue reading PDF merge from cli
It has been a while since I used my blog. I can’t actually remember why I stopped blogging in the first place. Perhaps lack of time. Boy, can’t even dare to look at the archive numbers. Last post dated from juli 2011. And even before then the previous post dated from december 2009! Well, a … Continue reading Trying to revive this blog
After I got a MacBook from work last year, I really enjoyed working with OSX. Everything ran smooth, the user interface is polished and I could still do everything I did on Linux and Windows. But a notebook is still a notebook. The screen is not optimised to do heavy programming work (13″) so I … Continue reading My Mac Pro Early 2009 Octo-core
Keep this in mind: In any group, the person on top consciously or unconsciously sets the tone. If leaders are fearful, hesitant to take any risks, or overly concerned for their ego and reputation, then this invariably filters its way through the entire group and makes effective action impossible. Complaining and haranguing people to work … Continue reading Leading from the front
Most western people use the Gregorian calendar to determine when a new year starts. Like most of my friends now, I’m a bit of the chart. For me, a new year starts after my summer holiday, so that makes it pretty variable. But I have a good, simple reason to do this. As most of … Continue reading Almost new year
Some people tell me I’m crazy for working most of the time. Running my own small company and working a full time job. Sometimes, I have to admit they are right. When I sit in front of my computer I totally lose sense of time. I just get wrapped up in problems that need to … Continue reading For love of the game