Over the years I’ve attended thousands of sales meetings. Literally thousands. So as time has gone by, I’ve slowly added to my bag of tricks for a happy lifestyle as a sales person. So here they are.. Presenting the top 5 “Must Have” items for a happy lifestyle as a sales person 1. Hand Sanitizer…
There are three things that make me feel like I succeeded as a web designer: 1. The user knew the purpose of the site 2. He or she found the information they were looking for 3. They loved it so much that they alerted the masses through their social networks of this so called ‘said’…
We are ecstatic to announce that we’ve once again made the Nashville Technology Council’s Tech Awards Nominees List! Not only is our agency up for Company of the Year, but our own Brandon Valentine and Lyndsay Rush scored noms for Developer of the Year and Social Media / Blogger of the Year, respectively. Even better,…
What tools do you use daily in the course of your development, and why those tools in particular? Textmate. Q: How do you start an argument in a room of developers? Ask them “what texteditor is better and why?” I’ve always subscribed to the classic “if it isn’t broken don’t fix it” train of thought…
Thanks to Josh Crews for cluing me in on how to set up staging on Heroku last February First, add heroku to the development group in the Gemfile and bundle install. If this is a client site, you will want the client to own the application, so we’ll sign in as the client from the…
I’m a productivity nerd. I’ve tried more to-do applications and note-taking systems than I can remember, and have built up several ridiculous systems to help me stay organized over the years. I think geeks typically build systems for two reasons: Most geeks have some form of ADD. Seriously. Geeks typically have a lot of complex…
No, really… I do love long car trips. There’s something fun and exciting about the process of charting out the best path to get to your chosen destination. You spend time carefully thinking through your stops along the way — based on what you want to be able to see, how much time you have, and…
You’ve probably caught wind of it already. A snide remark here, a subtle eye-roll there. What started as vague muttering in the ether of the twitters has grown to a dull roar of complaints: Barcamp Nashville is not legit. Whether or not these complaints represent a growing sentiment or a vocal minority remains to be…
As a print designer gone web designer, I’ve entered into a world of unfamiliar phrases that I’m quickly becoming familiar with. The first unfamiliar phrase I heard was “Ruby on rails”. In my mind I would think, “Ruby who?” and “What about the Wizard of Oz and her ruby slippers”? (Laugh it up developers). Well,…
We have a series of internal meetings called “Lunch & Learns” where a CentreSource staff member will spend the lunch hour sharing some tip, tool or best practices about a topic in which they are knowledgeable to the rest of the team. Yesterday, I covered the topic of screencasting and gave a basic overview as…
