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Essays On Self Improvement

How to change your life without changing anything, the scientific way

Every year I look forward to the winter snowfall, the reason is that I love to ski, but that all changed about 8 years ago. My friend was teaching me how to ride a dirt bike. A passion of his. Sadly I shattered my knee. The bike was a two stroke and my friend was […]

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Essays On Culture On Leadership

More than a profession or a job description

To say we are one thing is to say we are not another. In preparing for his talk, Bassam Tariq says, “Here I say, ‘I’m a blogger, filmmaker and butcher.’ The hardest part of my talk was saying that I was x, y and z. I have worked hard to dodge these kinds of labels. […]

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CSS Downloads Tutorials

How to use the simple responsive CSS grid – SimpleGrid

Introducing an easy-to-use and lightweight css grid.  Flexible 12 column grid Easily extend for custom styling Fluid (works no matter the size of the containing div) Responsive (looks nice on mobile & web) Option to maintain grid column layout on mobile screens Download latest release 

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PHP Tutorials

What does the symbol “&” “&&” “||” “::” “%” “!!” “**” mean in PHP?

This is the best guide on PHP symbols I’ve every seen. If only something like this existed when I was first learning to code. Reference: & =& &= && % !! @ ?: : :: \ -> => ^ >> <<< = == === !== != <> | || ~ + += ++ .= . , […]

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Essays On Business On Culture

Is a good life and a successful one compatible?

Have you noticed all this focus on the perfect habits of successful people as if the cause for their success can be summed up as a daily 8 hr sleep, 30 min exercise, and 30 min reflection time? But it’s not real. New Years Eve, Christmas Day, birthdays… we’re pretty good at celebrating important occasions. In between […]

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Essays On Design

The beauty of imperfect

What do Christmas, responsive css design, National Geographic and a walk in the forest have in common? The internet turns 25 and people are connecting via their PCs, tablets, phones, game stations, e-readers, … (you name it). The world of devices has changed. Yet, it feels like only yesterday that I met my first client curious […]

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mac Terminal Tutorials

Mac – How to clear a file’s contents using Terminal command

A quick trick to empty a file using Terminal on Mac. 1. Open Terminal 2. enter the following command in Terminal cat /dev/null > fileName If you get a warning Permission Denied you can do the following trick. sudo sh -c ‘cat /dev/null > fileName’

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Linux MAMP Tutorials

How to setup multiple sites hosted on your Mac with OSX 10.8 + (MAMP Part 5)

Welcome to part 5 of the MAMP tutorial. In this post we will go over setting up friendly URLs on your Mac server. We will be adding a new site called http://mysite.localhost You will also learn how to run multiple domain sites on your local server. Having Virtual Hosts enabled is really useful when developing sites on […]

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Essays On Culture On Social Media

We need to talk about the impact of Likes

Have you ever experienced information overload? Maybe I’m alone in this, but I love discovering new things. And for me learning from blogs, forums, or videos is an easy way to do it. With all that input I am influenced by the thoughts and ideas of the content. Which is part of the joy of […]

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Essays On Social Media

Facebook is broken

Facebook is broken. The site isn’t down, you can still login to your account. The problem is with its business model. Have you noticed how your newsfeed is getting more filtered? When you post something to your Facebook wall, it is only seen by a few of your friends. To prevent people’s walls from being […]