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Become a Better Developer with Life Coaching

Jonathan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:56:21 +0000

I have always felt that being a good software developer means that you are continually learning new technology and techniques. Just doing this is not enough though, as a person you also need to learn about life.

I have challenges in life and sometimes I need to lean how to solve these in the same way I would have to find a solution to developing some technology.

There have been a number of people that have inspired and helped me on my life journey, including Tony Robins.

Recently I came across Lars Pind who not only is a fellow geek but also a life coach. I actually first got to know about Lars when he produced a video on Productivity for Programmers over at peepcode.com

Lars runs a website coachtvblog.com where he produces regular videos on different life subjects. I especially enjoy him talking about what he calls Spiritual Entrepreneurship.

I highly recommend watching the videos and as a developer get the Productivity for Programmers over at peepcode.com

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008 HD Video)

Jonathan — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:33:57 +0000

This is an amazing adventure seeing Matt meeting people from around the world and everyone sharing in a fun dance.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

If only we had Barack running for Prime Minister

Jonathan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:38:52 +0000

The current Birtish Prime Minister and future running give our country no inspiration. We need someone like Barack Obama to bring a breath of fresh air to the government.

Snow in London

Jonathan — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:01:36 +0000

Woken up to snow in London. It’s not exactly Canada but exciting all the same.

How to Recruit the Right Person

Jonathan — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:10:01 +0000

A company called Bloxx, based in London UK, posted a job at jobs.joelonsoftware.com this morning and I thought their description of the type of engineer they wanted to recruit was just perfect.

We are looking to hire a software developer confident enough to describe their own skills as excellent.

The problem is, like those so called singers that audition on the X-Factor and can’t sing to save their life, sometimes delusion is not a good thing.

24 Tips To Becoming An Early Riser

Jonathan — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:53:10 +0000

Since I’ve become a full-time freelancer, I’ve found one of the hardest things to do is to get up early. Without the threat of being fired, there just hasn’t been a whole lot of motivation to get out of bed in a timely fashion.

GTD for Blogger’s

Jonathan — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:50:06 +0000

WebWorkerDaily has some recommendations on how to use GTD for blogger’s. It’s a cut down version of the full GTD and has some interesting suggestions.

Preserving History

Jonathan — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:32:52 +0000

After the sad loss of my cat at the weekend I started to think how I could preserve the past for my future family.

It’s always fascinating to look though old photo’s of my family from the past and I decided to preserve this history.

The plan is to scan all my old photo’s and upload them to Flickr. So get ready for a look into the Funcoder Family History. You can even see my attempt at being a photographer.