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February 28th 2010
A few people have asked me how I went about setting up the ExpressionEngine meetup I’ve been running in London for the last few months. I didn’t quite know what to say at first because I felt like I just stumbled blindly into it. But as time goes on – we’ve just had our 4th meetup – and questions are starting to come up for me, I thought I’d share what I know and maybe gleen some answers from other meetup organisers out there about the areas I’m unsure about.
Gauging interest
This was easy. I asked a handful of people I knew via the ExpressionEngine forums and/or Twitter who are based in London and the South East if they’d be interested. They all said yes so I figured we were good to go.
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January 23rd 2010
I have been running my own business full time for 2 and a half years now and one of the most difficult things to learn has been how little billable time you actually get done in a day/week. (I was reassured to read this week that the well established designer Jon Hicks is still getting used to this too.)
What I found most frustrating about this situation—aside from the fact that I’d have no bills to send out—was that I didn’t know where my time was going. I would spend 8 hours sat at my desk 5 days in a row and then look at a measley 10 hours of client work logged and think –
“What the hell have I been DOING?”
Then I discovered BubbleTimer. It took me a while to come round to the idea, but I have been now been using this little application for a year. In helping me keep track of what I have been doing, it has prevented me from completely losing my mind (and giving up on my business!).
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December 16th 2009
Most of the time when I’m setting up a CMS in which site editors can add images to their entries I will give them a specific image field to upload into, and that image will be positioned in the page template wherever I have designed it to go. End of story.
But there is one type of content entry when this just doesn’t cut it. News and Blog entries. The site editor might want to put 1, 2 or 3 images into an entry and they’ll want to position them at the relevant part of the story, in between, or alongside specific paragraphs. And I have got to give them that – it isn’t such a big thing to ask, is it?
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June 25th 2009
Just a quick note incase you (too) find that the player control slide or “scrubber” bar on your iTouch/iPhone music player has disappeared, it ain’t broke, it’s just hiding!
I was so excited about the added feature in the 3.0 Software release that allows you to skip back 30 seconds in a track – especially useful when listening to a podcast and you get interrupted – but then suddenly it wasn’t there. I was half way through a Boagworld podcast when I accidentally hit the skip button. Without the scrubber bar I (thought I) was looking at listening to 30mins all over again (when in fact if you hold down the skip button it does fast forward through the track you are on – another thing I learnt following the link below).
Turns out you have to tap the album cover/artwork to show/hide the scrubber bar. More info about the additional music controls can be found on the Apple site.
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May 11th 2009
I attended the Future of Web Design conference for the 2nd time last week, I first went in 2007 and since then I’ve been to the @media conference twice and dConstruct once as well. During this time I’ve learnt a few things about how to make the most of the experience, based on these key points:
- Be there
- Book early
- Choose carefully
- Talk to other attendees (and not just your colleagues!)
- Do talk to presenters, they want to meet people too
- Have questions or comments prepared to ask/share with someone you would like to meet
- Have the right appropriate expectations
- Go to the pre + after parties
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