A philosophy of enjoying oneself first, and foremost, will provide the greatest encouragement to continue going forward.
Edward Caissie
practicing habitual skills
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Posted on September 28, 2012 at 3:07 pm by Edward Caissie
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I often describe things as Mallory-Everest, and along those same lines I also use the descriptor Macy’s-Gimbels. Feel free to follow the link back to my explanation of Mallory-Everest … or continue reading to better understand what I am referring to when I say something is Macy’s-Gimbels. This all started after my umpteenth watching of … ∞
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Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:34 am by Edward Caissie
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Multitasking is one of the worst ideas ever to be conceived … do one thing at a time; do it well; do it right; then, move on. Perhaps the above is overly simplified, but the idea behind it is really simple. Trying to do more than one thing at a time is simply asking to … ∞
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Posted on May 8, 2012 at 3:28 pm by Edward Caissie
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Some may say “don’t sweat the details” and I would reply, “but it’s the little things that make it great”. The attention paid to the finer details of code will always play an important part in how well the code works. The documentation written to excess will only serve to better explain the code down … ∞
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Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:49 am by Edward Caissie
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Some may say the code is the documentation … and others may reply with the documentation is the code. I believe both are true; and, more importantly, they are not mutually exclusive.
Good UX is not solely in the realm of the end-user.
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Posted on March 29, 2012 at 3:57 pm by Edward Caissie
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Over the last 15 or so years, I have learned many things about writing code; about documenting code; and, about providing support for this same code, too. Coding Standards When writing code, I make every effort to keep a consistently structured format with the use of white-space, tabs, etc. This helps to provide clear delineation … ∞
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The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution!
Steve Jobs – Wired, February 1996
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I could not help but think: wow! I know I have been quoting a lot of Steve Jobs recently (I really like quotes from interesting people) which have been arriving in my inbox via a subscription to DailyLit’s “The Wisdom of (Steve) Jobs” Click on this link to DailyLit if you would like to receive these in your inbox.
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Posted on November 13, 2011 at 5:50 pm by Edward Caissie and modified on December 11, 2011 at 11:10 am.
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Although WordCamp Toronto 2011 was last weekend there were several ideas I will be taking away from it in regards to future development, best practices, as well as some interesting concepts and discussions. To keep it simple I’m just going to list these items (with their inspiration): Install MultiSite for use with Theme Demos (Ron … ∞
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