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Time Management

April 10, 2007 By Jeff Leave a Comment

My time management is getting a lot better regarding maintaining my sites, however I am not sure if that is because I have less time to work or not.

My day job is in the process of ramping up, so I am finding I have less and less time to do my own projects.  Right now I am going to be in the office only 2 days this week and one next.  The rest I am going to be on the road.  I also have to fit in Volunteer time for IEEE and all of the general household stuff.

That said I did have time to work on a time tracking program.  I searched the internet for what I was looking for but couldn’t find anything to my liking.  They were either for pay or the one promising OpenSource was way too complex for what I need (Thanks for the pointer Rami).  Right now only the bones are done so I can’t show anyone.  The design looks something like this site, and it has a very simple user interface.  I still have the user management, control panel, admin side and graphs stats etc programing to be done, but that will have to wait.  When it is in the BETA stage I will open it up.  I am also thinking that it is going to be targeted to webmasters and programmers.  I have been talking to a local company who are looking for something like this, so I will build the interface to their criteria and maybe they will donate some programming time :)

Oh yeah, it is my plan to have a FF extension so that you don’t have to actually go to the site to input your stuff, something like the ScribeFire Extension that I am using to write this post ;)

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My Time Management Sucks

April 4, 2007 By Jeff 1 Comment

I have always had a problem with time-management.  I always work on things that I enjoy first, I check my email, adsense, affiliate earnings, and forums WAY too much, and then in no time I realize that I had nothing accomplished and it is time for bed, or to go to the day job.

So I started to track the time I spend on various tasks online on a task/website basis.  This is done in a simple Excel spreadsheet.  The problem that I am finding with this is that I am not always working on the same computer, so that sheet is not always with me and therefore it is not updated.

I am in the process now of finding a good online tracking script with a MySQL backend.  When I find one I am going to install it here and maybe even write a small widget so that you can see the time I have spent on various tasks on a weekly basis in the sidebar.  Then next time I try to figure out why I am not getting anything done, you guys can scream and say it was because I was spending 20hours a week browsing a forum for the last month :)

Maybe when I can SEE exactly where all of my time is being spent I will be able to tweak my schedules and get more done in the time that I allow myself, rather than spending more time and getting nothing done.

::EDIT::

Well I think that I have changed my mind.  The long weekend is coming up so I am going to make my own tracking script.  It is not going to be much but if I do make it into something I will release it to the world :)

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ABOUT ME

April 2, 2007 By Jeff Leave a Comment

I guess it is about time that I did an About for this page.  It is one of those things that is very important.

To start my name is Jeff, and I usually go by the moniker of capebretoner or bluenoser on the various forums, blogs, etc that I frequent.

I got interested in being a webmaster back in 1999 when I first started to learn HTML, and started to work on a website for the local cemetary.

Then in about 2002 I met a friend in University who bought a large portfolio of domains and was selling them at a profit.  That is when I first found out that there was money to be made online.  However I was more interested in learning how to program and build sites then.  So I bought my first couple of domains and played with making sites.  My first was a personal site and then one that was used for the IEEE at Dalhousie.  I learned my first PHP/MySQL then, and even put up some adsense to see if I could make anything with it.

It really wasn’t until 2004 that I “saw the light”, I was bored at my day job.  Times were slow so I started reading some forums online.  It was then that I found DP and NamePros, I spent a lot of time on them and started to make some more sites, buy and sell, dabble in just about everything.  All of that dabbling cost me a lot of money, I was doing this as a hobby so it didn’t bother me too much.  These days I have decided to make my hobby profitable, so I have sold the majority of my sites and only kept the profitable ones.

This blog is really my record of everything that I have done online, I started it about the same time as I started getting serious about my hobby.

I hope that you enjoy reading my posts and most of learn from them.  It is better that you learn from my mistakes rather than make them yourself.

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