MediaGirl Toolbox

New Tools

I tend to take a ton of screen captures as a programmer and have tried a number of tools that have been okay but not great.

The latest software I'm trying is Jing which installs on PC and Mac. So far I'm liking it a lot. You can capture the screen or capture a video of what's happening on the screen. Once the capture renders, you have the option of adding text, arrows or highlights, then can share via screencast.com, save it or copy it to your clipboard.

Filed Under: Tools

Hello Facebook

I've just set up a MediaGirl, Inc. page on Facebook if you'd like to follow what's going on here in the office.

Filed Under: MediaGirl

Nothing For Free

In my many years as a full-time freelancer, I've worked hard not to underestimate the value of my work and contribution to a project. Thankfully, my clients have always understood my value as well and I've never had to experience this nickle and diming drama (trauma).

I'm not a taco stand, I can't do $8.50, I don't do tests, I don't roll costs over to the next project, I can't help you out, I can't "do this", I don't need "opportunities" and I won't show you how I made it!

Warning... If you are one of these clients, I'm booked for life with other work.

Mad love to my awesome clients.

Filed Under: For Laughs

Where Are The Women?

When I look at conference lines-up, I tend to checkout how many women are on the speaker list. Imagine my disappointment to see that out of 25 speakers for next week's EECI conference, only two are women... Lea Alcantara and Leslie Flinger.

Come on EllisLabs, there are a ton of amazing women designers and developers who have rallied around ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter... surely you could have balanced that speaker list a little better.

Filed Under: Expression Engine

One Awesome Database

Just grabbed this screenshot from an ExpressionEngine project I'm working on. It's been up since I was 9 years old! That would be 1983 to be exact... and yes that makes me 36.




What are the odds... Two nutty database up-times in the same month.



Here's a third one...

Filed Under: For Laughs