Throughout history there have been thousands of innovative, ground-breaking ideas. The Titanic – huge and invincible. The Hindenburg – fast and safe. Tower of Pisa – structurally sound. J Geils Band – Freezeframe. The list goes on…
Throughout history there have been thousands of innovative, ground-breaking ideas. The Titanic – huge and invincible. The Hindenburg – fast and safe. Tower of Pisa – structurally sound. J Geils Band – Freezeframe. The list goes on…
I had some car troubles last week – battery related issues. The car was getting worse as I drove day after day, and as usual I waited until the last minute to get it fixed. I went to a well known auto parts store to get a new battery on my way to work. I think it was out of convenience that I chose this place, I knew where it was and I’ve been a customer several times in the past. Read the rest of this entry »
Everyone loves to spend a portion of their time documenting their ideas, work, issues, concerns, processes, approaches, estimates, research, history, and whatever else we can transcribe from life to paper. I know it’s my favorite thing – when I finish a project up, proud of my accomplishments, I wanna relive it all on paper as soon as possible.
WHAT?? You can see right through my paragraph o’ sarcasm? Well, yeah maybe I exaggerated a little. Truth is, documenting information about a project allows us to see patterns that we can’t possibly pick up on while we’re neck deep in the mire of production on a web project.
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Today The Worthwhile Company tried something a little out of the box for us. We had Jeff Holland of Drum4Work come in and let us bang out our workday frustrations a little. At first the idea seemed wacky — what does drumming have to do with web development? design? secure hosting? customer service? teamwork?
I’m sure you’ve probably heard the old “right-brained /left-brained” comparison. Usually when I hear this comparison it is in reference to someone’s ability (or inability) to make something happen – “He can’t draw well, he’s too left-brained to be creative”. Or “She is terrible in Science, she is too creative minded”. I tend to disagree with it all. I have a fine art background, focused on drawing & painting, and now I do mostly programming and project management. Not very related, or are they?
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