Hey, we still have 365 days... you never know!

Mr. Reed was royally pissed off.

The virtual whore house those scrawny-necked geeks had set up at his geocoordinates was a blemish on the otherwise spotless reputation of his fine foods business. Bitches and caviar didn't mix. And Mr. Reed was not about to let anyone jeopardize the success he had scraped together from the crumbs of so many sacrifices.

Follow request: The_Cleaner_Brighton.

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As a developer you have one resource that is more valuable than any other. It is also the scarcest resource you have. That resource is time.

Given such a limited and valuable resource, you should be looking to make the most of how you invest it. In other words, which tools and technologies should you devote this limited resource to learning?

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As I enter another year on Earth, I thought I'd reward myself with a little birthday present: the luxury of taking a couple of days out to actually design my blog. I think it's about time as I've put it off for about – oh, eight years or so. (This is where I mumble something unintelligible about the footwear of certain young individuals birthed to a cobbler.)

It was really getting to the point where I was ashamed of the blog and thus not posting to it. And my 60,000 or so unique visitors (and you are, all of you unique, don't you forget that) deserved better.

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In my talks on user experience, I mention the importance of focus (in the context of user experience being the central focus-point of the development process). It's time to apply the same principle to my life in general. My interests, the technologies I work with, my various projects, and activities have somewhat accumulated to the point that it had gotten impossible for one person to keep on top of them. So I need to consolidate things, close some things down, and focus on the things that matter to me in the here and now.

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