sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2011: Context-switching and a four-project day — Context-switching among multiple projects can be tough. I’m currently: working full-time on one project (a Drupal 6 non-profit website) consulting [...]
• 2010: Risks, personal brands, and findability — I started the day with an interview for a course on social media education. The team sent me a list [...]
• 2009: Making business travel awesome — Business travel makes me anxious. When I book my flight and hotel, I wonder if I’ve chosen the right airport and [...]
• 2009: Lessons learned from this phase of our Drupal project — I learned a lot from another three months doing Drupal. Here’s a summary: I learned how to write low-level design documentation. [...]
• 2008: Hooray, figured out Drupal 5 multi-step registration form with validation and invites — The validation of multi-step forms in Drupal 5 was much less scary than I thought it would be, or maybe [...]
• 2008: Quick weekly report, week ending June 29, 2008 — Next week, I’m going to write these weekly updates on Friday or something, so they don’t get squeezed into Sunday [...]
• 2005: I can move in after office hours — Yay! I don’t have to worry about not being able to make it to office hours! I can move into the [...]
• 2005: Public speaking and mentoring — Steve Pavlina wanted to become a professional speaker. He didn’t know much about the business side of speaking, but he [...]
• 2005: Forms, forms, forms… — I have to confess: I’m crazy about forms. When a post like a million monkeys typing: The Crossroads Form turns [...]
• 2005: Teaching an old dog new tricks ;) — My dad is a Mac whiz, but adding new pictures to his portfolio on the Adphoto website is something he needs his [...]
• 2005: Feedburner rocks — If you haven’t signed up for the awesome RSS/Atom feed processor called FeedBurner because you’re afraid there’s no going back, relax. Those [...]
• 2005: Template for Debriefing — Based on Open Loops: Post-Project Analysis: A Strategy for Performance Improvement: During a debriefing, participants should be nameless and rankless. Review the [...]
• 2004: Oh no! I have to dress up tomorrow: CIOF technology briefing on open source — The Chief Information Officers Forum, Inc. (CIOF, Inc.) will be hosting the “The Government CIO Open Technology Briefing: Understanding the Issues Behind [...]
• 2003: UML use cases — http://www.therationaledge.com/content/dec_00/t_usecase.html
• 2003: Debian installation tutorial (from Slashdot) — http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1158
• 2003: Pure Math, Pure Joy — On Slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/06/29/183258.shtml