I recently took part in the second annual Las Vegas GiveCamp event, which is a weekend long hack-a-thon for charity. The way it works is pretty cool. They invite a number of Non-Profit groups who are looking for some assistance, then they invite dozens of volunteers to spend the weekend helping the Non-Profits in whatever…
Yesterday I was on a call with a client when I was reminded of a lesson I had learned early on at my last job. It was a little more than a decade ago, I got to my desk around 8am and checked my email. There was an URGENT email from a client, we’ll call…
Have you ever played the game Cards Against Humanity? It’s a card game where each turn one player will read a card and the other players will all play one of their cards that they think the first player will pick as ‘the best.’ As an example, the first player might play a card that…
With WordCamp Vegas less than two weeks away, it’s pretty much on my mind 24/7 at this point. Just making sure I’ve got all the details sorted out, food and shirts ordered, schedule sorted… It can be a bit overwhelming. But there’s only so many times you can go over a list of tasks, right?…
When people ask me what I do for a living, I semi-jokingly respond “I answer emails.” With a team of developers and a stack of clients, it’s a fact of life that I’m going to have to deal with a fair amount of emails. Keeping clients informed of what’s going on and making sure developers…
On my company site, we get a fair number of people filling out our contact form looking for help with a project. Believe me, I consider ourselves very lucky to be in a profession where there doesn’t seem to be any shortage of work. As the forms come in, we do our best to review…
Last week my company was listed in an article on VegasInc.com titled Eight Las Vegas tech companies you probably haven’t heard of. I always find it interesting to get listed in articles that aren’t directly related to the WordPress community. The attention they garner is very different than, say, being mentioned on poststat.us. What I…
This week has mercifully come to an end, and not a minute too soon! I’m not going to say it was a terrible week, because it really wasn’t. It was just a bit more chaotic than even I like. And I like me some chaos! Even through the chaos, I was able to wrap up…
I’m a doer. It’s probably why I have such a hard time handing off tasks that should be done by other people. An email will come in with a small task and instead of forwarding it over for somebody else to take care of, I’ll either stop what I’m doing and take care of it…
I consider myself a developer. Yet, as I’m sure is the case with most people who start a business, the more your business grows, the less you get to do of the thing that got you in to business to begin with. I spend a good portion of my day working with clients, answering emails,…
