Procrastinating Tip: Reward for Completing Tasks

I procrastinate a lot. I started this blog to help me with procrastination and it failed as I had a 6 month hiatus between posts. Recently though I came up with a new strategy to help with stop procrastinating and actually get stuff done: reward based tasks.

Checklist for Re-Designing a Website

There are very few things in this world as stressful as a website re-design. Numerous things can go wrong, users can leave and in the end you may have to roll-back. Here are a few tips on how to sanely re-launch and re-design a website.

Check an Elements Existence in jQuery

jQuery is probably one of the greatest JavaScript libraries out there (at least for me) and it can do pretty much anything you want. There’s one thing that I often do in my web applications that always makes me think twice while writing it in jQuery: element existence.

How to Fix Firefox Backspace in Ubuntu

As a computer nerd, I’ve used a number of operating systems for a number of reasons. One of my favourite Linux operating systems is Ubuntu. I like it for its ease of use, its great UI and a number of smaller reasons that are too numerous to list. One of the things I hate about [...]

Procrastination Tip: Taking a Break

Like the name of this blog, developers often procrastinate when it comes to different aspects of their profession. I know a lot of developers (myself included) that’ll start side-projects and then abandon them a week or two after they have started. They aren’t bad developers, or even lazy ones, they are just developers that procrastinate [...]

How to Reply to an Email

This morning I followed my usual schedule. I woke up, fired up my laptop, checked my blogs for any new comments, checked my feeds for any new posts and then opened my email client. As I was wading through the many emails (I have five different emails that I go through) I came across this [...]

Procrastination Tip: Accountability

Procrastination is something everyone has to deal with at least once in their lives. For me it often occurs when I’m trying to write a new application, doing things I don’t want to or something complex or time-consuming. Everyone has their own ways of dealing with procrastination but I’ve found one thing that really helps, [...]