Weekly Links
Thinks I found of interest and posted on Ma.gnolia
Deadlines kill inspiration | Veerles blog
“Deadlines kill inspiration” by Veerle Pieters is a great blog post giving a little insight into a designers perspective of how deadlines can stiffle creativity and hurt the end product. It doesn’t advocate not having deadlines, but more making tight deadlines or not allotting enough time to the creative process. A good read for clients who hire designers as well as a little ammo for designers who have “everything last minute” clients.
Tags: webdesign, freelance, business
Top 10 Ways to Fire the Client From Hell – Inside CRM
10 User Stories about clients from hell and good examples on how to get rid of them.
Tags: business clients customers
Digital Web Magazine – Contract Killers
Andy Clark goes over the “third way” to write client contracts based on target scope and target cost addressing the concerns of both client and supplier.
Tags: web design, business, contracts, quotes
» Where Do You Get Off?
Steve Spatucci commentary on what is means to be a “professional” in a field. Inspiration for all the writers, designers and developers out there who under value themselves.
Tags: inspiration, writing, steve spatucci
15 Ways To Become An Influential Blogger at Weekly Articles About Blogging – NxE
If your readers perceive you as an authoritative source, they will see your advice as authoritative, and take it over the advice of others.
If readers see your opinions as worth respecting, what you say will influence the way they act, or even the way they think.
Tags: blogging, inspiration, influence
» Five Reasons Why Freelancers Should Blog
Good article from Freelance Switch for those thinking about getting into blogging to improve their freelance business.
Tags: freelancing, blogging
One Blogger Asks: Is the Grass Really Greener on the Web Worker’s Lawn? « Web Worker Daily
A Freelancer missing the work place environment. Doesn’t specifically mention coworking, but obviously this blogger would benefit from it.
FiveRuns™ – Management Suite for Rails – RM-Install
RM-Install is a free, multi-platform, enterprise-class Ruby on Rails stack enabling you to instantly begin developing and deploying great Rails applications without the worry of installing or maintaining the various integrated software components.
Tags: rails, rubyonrails, stack, bitrock, fiveruns
funkatron.com : Spaz – A Twitter Client for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
Spaz is a free Twitter client for Mac, Windows and Linux. The current version, known as Spaz.AIR, uses the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets | Graphics
Over 20 free, beautiful and fresh icon sets as well as references to further free icon libraries. Some of the sets can be used for free only for private projects, however most of them can also be used in commercial projects.
Tags: icons
Software Development in the Real World: Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheet Guide
A bunch of potentially useful reference sheets.
Tags: css, html, javascript, ajax, cheatsheet, resource, reference
Synaphy · Seesaw – High-Availability Mongrel Packs
Tags: mongrel, rubyonrails, rails, administration
XRAY :: for web developers
XRAY is a bookmarklet to see the box model for any element on any web page.
Tags: css bookmarklet development
Railsify!
Railsify is an attempt to create a centralized directory of Ruby on Rails plugins, making it easier to find for new users as well as more experienced ones.
Tags: rails, ruby, development, plugins, ruby on rails
Six Apart – News and Events: We Are Opening the Social Graph
Dave details the Six Apart approach to opening up the social graph.
Tags: social-graph, microformats, socialnetwork
Howto: 3 Easy Ways To Speed Up CSS Development While Staying Organized | Elliot Swan
When developing large sites, stylesheets can get fairly messy and hard to keep track of. If you don’t stay organized, you can end up making them larger than they really need to be and doing more work than you should have to. Here’s just a few ways to can help avoid that.
Tags: css, examples, resource, tips, speed, webdesign, guide, tutorial
COLORS TOOLBOX: 20+ Tools For Working With Colors
Mashable’s 20 List of Color Tools
