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Comment on Dealing with job-related stress by Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:20:14 +0000

Stress can be good as it can help push your boundaries and improve your work, but like most things - only in moderation. I quite often find myself thinking about work related problems at home and often find that these continued background thought processes mean that come the next day you see a solution you didn’t see earlier.
However, when I start having dreams about the problems I know it’s maybe gone a little too far!

Comment on Dealing with job-related stress by Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:59:41 +0000

Dealing with stress on the job is one thing, but dealing with stressfull people/boss on the job is another. Taking personal responsibility in our work enviornment is vital to job happiness. Shelly Anderson’s book “Dealing With Divas” was handed to me not too long ago and I can tell you that it offers great tips to learning how to start enjoying my job again. I love it and highly recommend picking it up.

Comment on Dealing with job-related stress by Cameron

Cameron — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:22:20 +0000

Good to know I’m not alone Tomek! For what it’s worth, four hours solid work the following morning had it solved :)

Comment on Dealing with job-related stress by Og2t

Og2t — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:04:46 +0000

I exactly know what you mean, I had to cope with some relative simple algorithm couple of days ago and it really did my head. Couldn’t stop thinking about it at home till I finally worked it out… No much stress involved though, just too much of ambition ;-)

Comment on Designer vs Web Designer by Paul

Paul — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:22:47 +0000

Nice post Cam.

I believe it is fair enough for designers to dabble in js/flash but when your separating languages to certain roles this must fall to the developer as the designer is likely to fall at the first hurdle.

It all depends on who is driving the ship and what sort of background they came from, design/ dev (if any). Maybe also on workload, if the company gets more dev work than they can handle it ultimately fall to the designers to handle the learning curve.

As for Andrew’s previous employment, replace support-monkey, with super -monkey

Comment on Designer vs Web Designer by Cameron

Cameron — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:37:49 +0000

I’d like to hope that the first two places you mention are in the minority, but somehow I’ve got a feeling they’re not.

Solely doing HTML/CSS is a job position so limiting that I can’t imagine any serious agency would be actively looking for just that individual skill - especially when you consider the number of people able to do the same but so much more besides (JS, Flash, Server-Side) …

Madness!

Comment on Designer vs Web Designer by Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:22:28 +0000

The first two places I worked had a slightly different (more common? More retarded?) approach.

1) Developer told the name of a company and what they sold
2) Developer creates design for said company
3) Developer makes templates for said designs
4) Developer integrates templates into homebrew CMS
5) Developer trains customer on CMS
6) Developer deals with support requests

Feel free to swap in Developer with Designer with Support-monkey!

Now though, I know people who are virtually 100% HTML/CSS, who are just taking baby steps into JavaScript and who haven’t/won’t touch server-side languages. Impressive!

Comment on Nike takes it to the next level by Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:29:40 +0000

’tis a truy great advert.

Comment on Installing PHP on 64-bit systems by Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:59:43 +0000

hah!

Wish I’d found this post last night! I installed PHP through Litespeed and got snagged on this point. Same solution, though all mine was done through the webmin!