Business

Learning from the Past and Looking Forward to 2013

I have done a few end of year / start of new year posts in the past but this one will not be a look back at the past year. 2012 has been a great year for me and my business, a year of growth and the pain that often…

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Why Pixelyzed.com Is Now Running on WordPress

Last night, I started the process of migrating pixelyzed.com from a hybrid static and blog site which ran under blogCFC to a full blogging site entirely powered by WordPress (and PHP). As a long time ColdFusion developer and advocate, this is a huge change for me. It is a decision…

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pixelyzed.com Now Running on Wordpress

This is just a quick note to tell you all that I just migrated the pixelyzed.com blog to Wordpress. I will post again in the next few days to explain the reasoning behind the change and speak  of my experience doing so.

For now, you will notice that he blog…

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Looking Back at 2009

As is becoming a tradition for me, I’m writing a post to reflect on the last year as we’re jumping into the new. I will write another post later to talk about new tools and new technologies I discovered or started using in 2009. In this one, I reflect on…

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It’s Been One Year!

I missed the actual anniversary date which was August 8 (2008-08-08) but it's now been one full year since I quit my job to go freelance full time. The road has not always been easy but I wouldn't go back. I'm the happiest I've been in my whole life and…

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New Site Launch!

Today I just launched my wife's site after working on it on and off for months. Isabelle is a very talented artist-painter and this project has been a labour of love for us :)

The design is minimalist and the layout is very sparse. I wanted to put the…

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2008, The Year of Freelancing and Twitter

I am a bit late with the 2008 yearly reviews but this one will be shorter than last year's. As 2008 has been a very big year for me I wanted to blog about it for posterity and this post will focus on basically 2…

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Do You Listen to Music While Working?

There is a meme popping on Twitter and the blogosphere where some Web professionals are wondering if it is a good thing to listen to music while working or not. I had been reflecting on that very thing recently so this comes at a timely moment for me.

Of course,…

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I’m Now a Full Time Freelancer

3 days ago, I started my new career as a full time Web design professional freelancer...

Well, it's actually not a new career because I've been doing it for over 12 years now. But for a while in the mid 90's, it did play second fiddle to music and working…

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Feeling the jQuery love

I've started to use jQuery on the current project I'm working on and I really love it so far. It's a lot easier to grasp than I expected and is very lightweight for such a powerful framework.

When the site is done I'll post a link to…

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