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Month March 2009

Donation management for non-profits

For a recent project for a non-profit, I had to make a decision about using an out of the box solution for managing donations versus building our own solution.
We are still working on the decision, but here are the key points to consider:
1) Opportunity cost – What asking opportunities are we going to [...]

We’re all outta rock stars and ninjas

I subscribe to several niche job feeds. At least once a day, I see postings for “rock star developers” and “javascript ninjas’. Occasionally there’ll be a need for a Ruby on Rails wizard.
I’m pretty sure ninjas and rock stars are too busy being ninjas and rock stars to write code.
If you’re looking for [...]

Success

1) Goal
2) Metric
3) Measure & track
4) Action
5) Refine & repeat
Should get you to where you’re going.

Investment wardrobe building

Style Savage has a good breakdown on creating a wardrobe to last, and the concepts behind building such a thing.
[A] man’s wardrobe was like a house – he bought pieces of clothing and he maintained them so they would last, shirts were mended and ultimately their character was enhanced.
There’s very little ambiguity about the [...]