Had a great time with Dre and Brad on DradCast today
Check it out:
Coding with Konstantin Obenland in Mumbai
With my new retina MacBook just a couple of days away, I’d like to set it up as a lean, mean coding machine.
Right now, I have some bad habits that I’d like to unwind. I find myself falling out of PHP Storm and into TextMate more often than I’d like, devving on a remote server because my local environment isn’t working properly, I have the same repos in at least 3 spots on my hard drive, etc, etc, etc.
My favorite parts of my workflow:
Coding while on vacation in Greece
So, developers, I’d really like to hear about how you have your environments set up.
What IDE do you use? Do you use VVV or something else? What else do you do to help yourself be as productive as possible?
In exchange, I’ll be eternally grateful and put together a follow up post in a few weeks about how I incorporated your suggestions. And I’ll probably buy you a drink at a WordCamp sometime..
While practice makes perfect, when you’re coding, practice can just reenforce bad habits. Want to be a better coder? Go read some more code.
Carl Alexander explains:
We have to take a look at how we (humans) learn. In particular, we want to look at how we learn from observing others. That’s because the internet acts as your personal observation laboratory.
As a developer, you learn a lot from observing the behaviour of other developers.
Over the past decade of dealing with clients, I’ve dealt with a lot of misconceptions about website hosting. I’ve dealt with all of the major hosts, and many of the minor ones. I have friends at a number of hosting companies. I’ve had good experiences, and I’ve had (really) bad experiences.
The one thing about hosting that continues to blow my mind is the level of price-sensitivity around it. Many clients are so used to seeing that they can get super-discounted hosting for a few bucks a month that they balk at the idea of paying more. I have had clients who were paying over $100,000 a year for development who didn’t want to pay more than $10 a month for hosting. While this is obviously an extreme example, it probably resonates with plenty of other developers out there.
Your website is a major factor in the success of your business. Even if it’s just telling people about your store, it is creating a customer experience before your customer even sets foot in your store, and it’s telling potential customers what to expect from you. Don’t have that experience be “We don’t care about your time.”
At the end of the day, I implore you to not treat hosting as a pure commodity, where the lowest price always wins. Evaluate your needs, evaluate your options, and decide on value, not price.