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Habits

February 13, 2016 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Start with little habits that can grow into big habits.

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: habits, productivity

Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

November 3, 2015 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

The rooster.

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: musings

Getting rich

September 23, 2015 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

The easiest way to make money is to do what you are best at.

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: income, money, rich, skill, talent, wealth

Procrastination

August 18, 2015 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Put off procrastinating.

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: procrastination, productivity, thought of the day

Simple trick to getting things done

October 29, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Overwhelming to do list?

Put it aside and make a new one with just three things on it.

If you finish those three, write another three.

I say “if” because our priorities change daily, so you may not finish those three and the next day the three may need to be different. This can happen when any of the three are large ongoing tasks. For myself, these could be user support or coding an application.

If you want to tighten the list to goals achievable that day, you could qualify the items. e.g. Two hours of user support; Answer 10 support requests; Code feature X; etc

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: getting things done, gtd, howto, list, tips, todo, tricks

My development and design toolkit

October 18, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Being a software junkie, this is always in a flux, but this is how it stands at the moment

PHPStorm

CodeKit

MAMP Pro/Vagrant

Buckets

Gliffy Diagrams

Affinity Designer

Affinity Photo

Snagit

Screenflow

Screensteps

Codebug

DeltaWalker

Patterns

Dash

Tower

Transmit

WPEngine

Headway

ManageWP

Wave Accounting

Updated 9/3/2016

Filed Under: Coding, Design, Tools Tagged With: coding, designer, developer, tools

Incontinent

October 18, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

(adj) Involuntarily crap at some task, knowledge, talent, skill etc.

e.g. Despite my best efforts, I am incontinent at object oriented programming.

Filed Under: Coding, General, Musings Tagged With: incompetent, incontinent

Love & sex

June 12, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Is making love bad for your sex life?

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: love, sex

The recursive paradoxical instruction

June 9, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Don’t listen to anything I say.

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: paradox, recursion

Bite the hand

June 5, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

The dog that bites the hand that feeds it may have been mistreated.

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The customer isn’t always right

June 4, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

The customer isn’t always right – or bright. But you’re not allowed to make them feel stupid for it.

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: customer, support

If it ain’t broke

May 13, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

If it ain’t broke enough, don’t fix it

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A victory for common cents

April 19, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

When the consumers boycott a retailer, forcing change, it is a victory for common cents.

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Absence

February 3, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Absence makes the mind grow wiser.

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: abscence, relationships, wisdom

The world’s simplest diet

January 11, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

The world’s simplest diet: Stop eating EVERY time you feel hungry!

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: diet, dieting, weight

Relationship Pulse

January 10, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Paraphrased wisdom of an 82yo: Want to know the true state of your relationship? Check its resting pulse rate. That is, see how it is when you’re not working it. If it’s weak, so is the relationship. If it’s strong, so is the relationship.

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: relationships

Relationships

January 7, 2014 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

I think I’m the “other woman” in my relationship.

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: relationships

Luck

December 12, 2013 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Luck is for people who don’t know what they’re doing.

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: luck, practice

WordPress developer tip: Adding messages to content list and editor screens

December 6, 2013 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Recently I learnt how to display messages on content list and content editor pages in admin, which has enabled me to put key info I kept getting asked bang in front of users (mainly what the screen is for and how to get more help).

content-editor-help-messages

content-list-help-messages

Use one of these actions:

Content list: views_edit-{post type name}

Content editor: edit_form_after_title

The latter passes $post to your function (i.e. use myfunction($post)) , so grab that and use $post->post_type to check you’re on the right page before showing your message.

Filed Under: Coding, Tips, WordPress Tagged With: coding, content, documentation, help, tips, wordpress

Epithet

November 20, 2013 by chrishoward Leave a Comment

Finally finished someth…

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: epithet, grave

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