Wanna build a website! Here’s a list of software that I find absolutely essential to building a great site.

TextMate – If you wanna design a great site then you need to get down to the nitty gritty, and that means hand coding everything. After trying a slew of freeware and non-freeware editors I’ve finally landed [...]

Yeh that’s right, I’m blogging from the beach. I figured today would be a good day to try out the new WordPress iPhone app. All in all it’s everything you could want out of a mobile WordPress app. It’s super easy to use and you can attach photos to posts right from your iPhone’s [...]

Clearleft has finally released its much anticipated usability testing software called Silverback. The site points out that usability testing is often very expensive, and time consuming. Silverback attempts to fix this problem by providing easy to use software that runs right on your Mac. Plop a subject down and record  every interaction they make. I’ll [...]

I found this one via Reddit, 101 Reasons Freelancers Do it Better. While I don’t agree with the entire article, the author points out the perks of freelancing. Here are a few of my favorites:

You can work when you’re most productive
Control over your hourly rate
Diversity
No office politics
You’ll develop an impressive portfolio
You’ll be challenged
Work is wherever you want [...]

When you run a computer all day everyday like I do it’s crucial that you make routine back-ups of all your data. I found this out the hard way back in college while I was working on my thesis animation (needless to say it all worked out). From now on I keep copies of old [...]