January 2012

Okay, this next step is dear to my heart. I have thus far resisted using templates, favoring instead making documents from scratch, because it seemed so much more pure. But the truth is, I have dependencies left-and-right in this application—not the least of which is the gdata-python-client (the Google Data Python client librarires). And the advantages [...]

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Okay, one of the things I lost conceptually in recent months is to work in chisel-strikes. A day isn’t much time, and if you become distracted and let your mind get cloudy and your vision get fuzzy, the day slips by and you are no closer to your goal. You have to put yourself into [...]

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I’m starting out my day’s journaling directly in my MikeLev.in WordPress, going against all my instincts to keep it in my vim code repository for my latest project. This is in an attempt to force a shift in thinking that I’m coming to believe is of the utmost necessity to push myself to the next [...]

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Designing Site Hierarchy

by Mike Levin on January 29, 2012

Wow, I can’t believe I did that little graphic Sitemap all on my iPhone, and edited it onto the homepage through the WordPress UI on iPhone Safari. Now it’s time to hand code an imagemap and hyperlink it into category or series pages. I looked briefly at desktop software to do this, but my rectangular [...]

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As a daddy of a 14-month old, I find most of my discretionary time reading and writing taking place on my iPhone. I’ve been meaning to organize MikeLev.in for awhile now, and I’m thinking the MindNode iPhone app will be the way to do it. MindNode let me make the graphic and I’m using the [...]

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I have two public projects in the works: a system that I developed for work, which we will be releasing for the public to use as a thought-leadership piece in the SEO and Social Media industries. With this post, I’m taking the rather dramatic step of transitioning my daily development journal over to my MikeLev.in [...]

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