Category: General
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Working from the Beach part 4 – One Week In
Now that I’ve been working from Sayulita for the past week, I wanted to summarize some of the important things I’ve discovered so far: If you turn on data roaming on your iPhone to use the Maps to get from the airport to your rental, be sure you’ don’t have the App Store auto-update turned…
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Working from the Beach part 3 A Different Kind of Travel
Traveling with the intention of working full time is a bit different than traveling for vacation. In this case not only is the purpose of the trip different, but also the duration. Being gone for a month or more is quite different than visiting London for a week. Assuming you have a house or apartment,…
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Working from the Beach (or Jungle or City) – part 2 – Picking a Location
Where you travel to is a big question and there’s thousands of right answers. A few things that you may want as criteria: Affordability- living somewhere for months is a lot different than getting a hotel room for a few days. This can touch on everything from travel costs, to accommodations, to the exchange rate…
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Working from the Beach (or Jungle or City) – part 1 – Introduction
If you work in the technology field, in many cases all you need to do your job is a computer, an internet connection, and some voice communication (cell phone or VIOP). In theory you can bring a laptop almost anywhere in the world and fulfill those needs. Since I started working for myself over five…
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Recent Server Downtimes
I wanted to apologize for the recent outages of this site, and 10MinuteMail, etc… My server’s been having hard drive issues, and after a failed attempt it’s finally been cut over to a new RAID array. Things should be MUCH more stable going forward!
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Office Hours Follow Up
In January I announced an experiment: Office Hours. So far it’s been a very interesting mix of conversations. I’ve spoken with recruiters and tried to provide some insight into what makes the ATG/Oracle Commerce niche different and more difficult to find and place resources for. I’ve spoken with many people about various aspects of ATG/Oracle…