Task list / team management for german speakers SMB

ok, before you ask, my german sucks – like really I am not good at it. However, I sent this to a friend in Austria the other day, and I thought it might be of benefit to others, so I am sharing this here. So, if you need a way to manage errands and task and keep track of what’s going on in your company (less than 10 people) and you need an interface in german, here are some stuff you might find useful:...

June 25, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Quotes to remember on gloomy days

The way get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney  People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. – Rob Siltanen  Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford  Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein  You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great....

June 25, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

No backend – frontend first tools

Traditionnaly – when you build an app – you go from the backend first, i.e – the data model, the database, the API and then only you add the frontend layout talking to you backend. Problems that come with this approach are basically Longer time before client can see anything You don’t build with user scenarios in mind but with database and programming scenario in mind. Some people though to reverse the whole dev cycle and start with frontend first....

June 23, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Logo brief tips

June 20, 2018 · 0 min · Johann Savalle

Sound & video for Youtube – 2 intro videos

Camcorder VS. DSLR for Video, YouTube and Vlogging?  Quick and Easy super effective DIY acoustic treatment panels for voiceover

June 16, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

3 talks about HR and company culture

Leo Widrich (Buffer) – Building Company Culture: Radical Transparency & Experiments Lear Widrich is a the CEO of buffer. Buffer – if you have never heard – is a SaaS product that help you manage your social media publications. They have a pretty aggressively open culture of sharing with the world how they work and this is a really interesting talk, where you will hear about important things from a practitioner....

June 16, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Creating a user persona in a lean development context

Awesome talk. I’ll add some organised notes in there later. Meanwhile just watch the talk. (Speaker is Adrian Howard)<div class=‘avia-video avia-video-16-9 av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed ' itemprop=“video” itemtype=“https://schema.org/VideoObject" data-original_url=‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_XFltujnkE’ >  Just some quick notes while listening: WAP used to be a thing. I forgot about that. You are not the only one who produced made-up persona (you know, when you don’t talk to a customer before you do the persona – happens a lot especially when surrounded by the marketing folks)...

June 16, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Twitter roast – Burger King – Pancake edition

I just woke to a post in some fb group with a mashup of the latest Burger King twitter roast and thought I should start documenting these… so I downloaded that… Enjoy! When Burger King become Pancake King Whataburger is not having it Chili's siding with Whataburger

June 13, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

3 not very well known sites for free resources

I always see the same sites used and quotes for free stuff (unsplash, pexels, freepics, etc.) and that’s cool because these are awesome resources anyways, but today I just wanted to feature 3 places I recently discovered and I haven’t seen quoted or talked about in many places. Resource Cards Growing list of free resources aimed to help creatives with their projects. By Stelianand Sergiu Firez   Web: https://resourcecards.com/....

June 4, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

What if WhatsApp, Snapchat and Amazon launched in the 80s

Ok, let’s chill for a sec. If you don’t know about Jo Luijten, he is a Dutch video artist & video game developer based in LA, and beside his impressive portfolio, he also feed a youtube channel name Squirrel Monkeywith some funny retro videos. I stumbled upon his creations the other day and had to share some here. Check his channel if you want more vids (got on Siri, Tinder, Insta, Bitcoin and more)....

June 3, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

How to connect to Nextcloud using Webdav flysystem and laravel

Ok…. title of this post is a tad specific but I have wasted so much time trying to piece all together all the elements of this short post that I thought it will be probably useful for a few other people out there.  so what are we talking about anyway. On one side of the ring we have Nextcloud– the evolution of owncloud, forked by its own founder to ensure this project remain opensource forever (full story here)....

May 31, 2018 · 2 min · Johann Savalle

Vuejs and jquery – a digest

TL;DR: Really, vuejs could totally replace jquery if it wasn’t for some of jquery plugins. But really as time goes, I am sure we can expect it will come. Comparing vuejs and jqueryReplace jquery with VueJSIf you are not that much of a jquery person anyway, this article should be a good intro for you : A Vue.js introduction for people who know just enough jQuery to get by

May 25, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

When money isn’t real: the $10,000 experiment

Adam Carroll talks about his $10,000 Monopoly game with his kids and how to teach finance management in a cashless society. Adam Carroll is quickly being recognized as one of the top transformational trainers in the country. Having presented at over 500 colleges and Universities nationwide, hundreds of leadership symposiums, and countless local and regional organizations, Adam Carroll’s message of Building A Bigger Life, Not a Bigger Lifestyle has been heard by over 200,000+ people....

May 17, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Camera basics – ISO – Aperture – Shutter speed

Shutter Speed The time the shutter is open to expose light into the sensor. Typically measured in fractions of a second. Slow shutter speeds means more light into the sensor Examples of shutter speeds: 1/15 (1/15th of a second), 1/30, 1/60, 1/125. Aperture How big the hole of the lens is open. The larger the hole, the more light. Aperture also controls the depth of field. Small aperture = large depth of field...

May 11, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Some interesting VueJS Projects

VueJS wordpress theme starter VueRouter integrated Vuex integrated (with sample WordPress-centric modules) jQuery integrated, if that’s your thing Firebase support and sample config Axios for API requests Follows the development guidelines/structure set forth by Vuejs Bare essentials needed for a functional WordPress theme All requests are redirected back to the index.php so your Vue routing is respected. SCSS support Bootstrap-Vue integrated Voten.co It is like Reddit but in VueJS...

April 26, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

wordpress and redis

Ludicrous Speed: WordPress Caching with RedisHow To Configure Redis Caching to Speed Up WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04WP Rediswp-redis-cache by Benjamin Adams How to Drastically Speed Up WordPress with Redis How to load WordPress in a few milliseconds using Redis Lightning Fast WordPress with Nginx + Redis

April 26, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Why do I write var log

Most post in this category are unfinished, imperfect, lack the polish a proper blog article should have, very often they have typos and even some time unfinished sentences. So why even bother? Well, because life isn’t perfect, and most imperfect. But it is important to get going anyway. It is important to persist. I know as I keep doing it it helps me shape my thinking. Mostly I avoid accumulating ideas in my head....

April 26, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Cool video editing technics

April 26, 2018 · 0 min · Johann Savalle

SEO on a budget

SEO isn’t hard you need good content and good link. That’s kind of all. But when you cannot do any of these or you want to accelerate the process, might be worth thinking how you’re gonna optimise that process. Finding good content on this is pretty hard. This video however is really a neat finding. So enjoy !

April 24, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle

Vue component layout

https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar https://github.com/vuetifyjs/vuetify https://vuematerial.io/ https://github.com/buefy/buefy https://at-ui.github.io/at-ui/#/en http://element.eleme.io/#/en-US  

April 24, 2018 · 1 min · Johann Savalle