Thirty-five. That’s how many pounds I lost when Melanie and I moved to Canada for 10 months. I moved back in March of last year, and maintained a steady weight – I even managed to lose a few more pounds in the process! Then, come June of the same year, I started a new job and things spiraled out of control.
My goal is to start doing any one of the following things, and sticking with it. At no point do I want to not be doing something fun like this, and it’s high past time that I make it happen. I often have ideas to do something, and while I’m not saying even half of them are any good, I still generally don’t bring them to life – even the really good ones. So, what follows is a short list of some of the thigns I’d like to accomplish, and it is my goal to make them happen.
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Continuing along with the Two Weeks of Creativity, here are yesterday’s entries. The theme yesterday was “Big & Small,” chosen by Brad and reviled by him shortly thereafter. Nonetheless, we trucked through it and both got our exercise done.
I was talking with my buddy Brad on Sunday after I took my girlfriend to the bus station for her two week trip back to Canada. I told him how I was bummed out that we were going to be apart again, although I was happy it was only two weeks this time instead of five. Time will likely fly by (and it already seems to be a bit!) since I’ll be so busy with work and getting settled into our new place, but Brad decided it could use a little bit of a fun boost, and so Two Weeks of Creativity was born.
I got a good three hours of work in when it was time to go mini golf with the team I found out I was on that morning. So I mini golfed with the folks of EPIC, ate a hot dog and chips, and headed back to my office with the rest of the team. Once we got back, my manager said we can take the rest of the day of, with a big grin the whole time. We were laughing along when he then told us he was serious. I told him I’d think about it, since I’m paid hourly he told me that didn’t matter – I could take…
Earlier this week I wrote about Mozilla’s response to my answers to their web developer survey and how they were building strong ties and customer loyalty through communication. On top of taking the time to respond, the information they provided was very helpful. Below are excerpts from the e-mail I received from Alix Franquet in response to my feedback, as well as some comments about the items discussed.
Last November, the Mozilla Developer Network put out a survey targeted toward Web developers and raised a call to action. Although it doesn’t seem they ever posted the final set of results (they did some preliminary results at the link above), they had over 5,000 developers respond from 119 countries. Pretty cool.
This is just a quick tip, but ever since discovering it I use it constantly. A lot of developers use PHP’s print_r() function to display human-readable information about a variable, which makes it great for debugging arrays and objects (among other things) very quickly. However, you have to wrap the output in <pre></pre> tags otherwise it gets spit out in a jumbled mess and doesn’t display nicely.
