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I think mzbridget and krsgoss make sensible suggestions elsehwere in the comments. On the topic of work/life balance, I'd add: try your hardest to "close the door" on your workspace when you've finished for the day. If you have a home office and can do this literally, then even better.

On the topic of having the same routine as if you worked in an office, I heard somebody once say that they left the house before work and walked round the block, rain or shine, to simulate a morning commute. They said it helped create the mindset mzbridget mentions (point 1).


I think this might be the one you're talking about: http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/11/11/if-youre-busy-youre-do...

HN discussion from a few days ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3222725


Many banks in the UK are referred to, and understood, in everyday language without the "bank": Barclays, Halifax, Natwest, Santander, Lloyds to name a few.


I think an important difference is that those are relatively unique words, unlike Simple, which is common and ambiguous.

Telling someone that you have your money in a simple account doesn't convey as much meaning as telling someone you have your money in a Barclay's account.


That's a very good point well put. "Simple account" might even be a description of the level of account you have, causing further confusion.


> Not sure if it is possible to share documents with non-GMail email addresses on GDocs, which would be a must.

This is possible. You can set a document to be visible to anyone with the link, so sign-in isn't requred. More info here:

https://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...


Clickable: http://castle.so


Thanks


I imagine these is already on your radar, but it seems appropriate at this point to link to two of the 1000 True Fans essays from a few years ago.

Original -- http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...

Followup -- http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/04/the_case_agai...


This is the full Ofcom report (pdf): http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/telecoms-...

Another interesting nugget from the summary: "Mobile broadband data volumes are now significant, at an average of 240MB/month for each 3G connection." (p. 2)


Why does Google Analytics not meet your needs? Rather than creating different landing pages, have you tried tagging the links in the ads using Google's URL builder [0] and then using Goals and Funnels in Analytics to track conversions?

[0] http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?...


Settings > Themes


thank you :-) (stupid me)


My first two steps: I started from nothing with Pine's Learn to Program, and then moved on to Learn Ruby the Hard Way.

http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/

After you've got the basics, the best way to learn is to have a problem to solve or need to address. About halfway through LRTHW I started making notes on little programs I could try to build once I'd finished the course. None were very original: a custom contacts book, a script that scraped football scores and added them to a text file, a simple single-serving website that told me the weather for my area. My learning spiralled out from there.

Finally, this is an online version of the famous Pickaxe book, which I found to be a good reference. I wouldn't recommend it as a first port of call if you're new to programming, but once the terminology (object, class, method, variable etc) has sunk in it's useful for looking things up.

http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

Have fun!


BTW, that online copy is the 1st edition of the book, for ruby 1.8.6 (or maybe even earlier).

The language is now at 1.9.3, and while things are fundamentally the same there are assorted little differences.

Still, as a free intro to the language it's not bad.

If you want to buy a book I'd suggest The Ruby Programming Language, as well as anything by Gregory Brown or David A. Black.

Greg also produces the Practicing Ruby newsletter which I cannot recommend highly enough.

http://practicingruby.com/

Greg does amazing stuff.

See also http://university.rubymendicant.com and http://blog.rubybestpractices.com


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