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Top 9 Websites that Simplify Your life

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Internet has made our life simpler, but here are the websites that takes the term ‘simple life’ to a whole new level. 1. PriceGrabber.com Quit checking several websites to find the best deal online. Let PriceGrabber.com do the job for you including tax and shipping. You can also get real customers reviews on ...

Quick Portable Meals for Programmers - 5 Resources

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

I love programming. Because of that, I often find myself in the zone where I don't even want to leave from the computer to eat. Power Bars are only so good after eating over 100 of them.... So I put together this list of easy to make and portable snacks ...

More Than Three Monitors?

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Personally, I use three monitors. Two are connected to one computer and the other is connected to another computer. I use the first monitor to display my IDE (when I'm hacking ThemBid.com), the second to display my browser and third displays either my e-mail, real-time logs or TV (it's a ...

9 Ways to Get to the Thinking Zone

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

My favorite place to get into the "thinking zone" is in the shower. There is something about the quietness, combined with the steam that just makes my brain put things together. Here are some methods that my colleagues, mentors and people I have read about suggest to get into the ...

Flowcharting Online Collaboratively

Friday, June 15th, 2007

I have already found a great solution for mind mapping. What would be awesome is a similar tool for flowcharting that was web based. At the Go2Web20.net directory I found the solution (I hope). With this solution I can see great opportunities to collaborate with clients during the requirements and execution ...

Dreamline - The 4-Hour Workweek

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I have finished reading The 4-Hour Workweek and now going through a second read, I am performing the exercises. One of the exercises is the Dreamline process. The book instructs to find the form online to complete the excercise. I was able to find a PDF, but not an editable ...

Outsourcing Your Life - 25 Resources

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

As CEO of three companies, including a brand new startup I found delegation to be an essential skill. While we have a phenomenal in house core team, I must ensure that our resources are used optimally. Therefore, wherever I can, I outsource tasks that are either 1) Not part of ...

Change Your Life Completely

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I was reading a book named "Success" by J. Pincott. It is a collection of "Success" quotes by various successful people. One of the quoted people is Bill Clinton, he said that a little book named "How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life" by Alan Lakein changed ...

The Eight Step Goal Formula

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

When we started developing ThemBid.com, we quickly found that there were many tasks to do between a few people. We needed to figure out what to do, why and in what order. Using the following formula can help you make these determinations.

What time during the day/evening do YOU program best?

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

I am not talking about the 9-5 job you work at. I am talking about you open source developers and casual programmers. I am talking about the time that you like to kick back and create something fun on your own time. Evenings works best for me because during ...