Over the past few years freelancing I’ve been testing different styles of scheduling my client services. Typically freelance projects are either spread out (20/hours a week for 6 weeks) or are bunched up into large chunks (40/hours a week for 3 weeks). Neither of these have felt that good to me. Spread out or in [...]
About Eric Davis
I founded Little Stream Software where I help new entrepreneurs build a successful software business. I also created an ebook, Redmine Tips, where I show you how to become more productive using Redmine. I am also the author of Refactoring Redmine, where I go about refactoring Rails using Redmine as an example. Follow me on Twitter and Google Plus.Author Archive | Eric Davis
The ChirkHR Pivot
Admitting you made a mistake is difficult. Doubly so when you aren’t sure that it was a mistake. But after a few months of running ChirkHR as an applicant tracking system, I think I made a mistake. The Sales Safari This lingering doubt caused me to go back to the market research to see what [...]
Three Book Diet
I’ve mentioned it before that I really enjoy reading but have found myself consuming too much information without applying it. There are dozens of books that I’ve read, all of which had good ideas for my life or business, but I haven’t put the work in and took action on those ideas. With the birth [...]
The 3 Common Types of Code Reviews
Much of my development involves reviewing and reading code, both formally and informally. You will only write code once, might modify it a few times, but you will read it over and over. I found code reviews are just a formalization of this code reading process. I’ve noticed a few different types of code reviews, [...]
Postponing Tech Learning Series
I’ve been doing a weekly tech learning series every Friday for the past few weeks. Each morning I’d budget 1 hour to learn a new piece of technology and then write up my thoughts about it. Even though I only budget one hour to the learning, I end up using two to four hours for [...]