My new books order just arrived.
This time the chosen one’s were:
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to Drive Your Career and Create a Remarkable Future
The Dip: The Extraordinary Benefits of Knowing When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Have you read any of them ? What should be the expectations ?
Procrastination doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing, there are several ways to perform active procrastination.
In the video below, Gina Trapani explains how you can turn passive procrastination into active procrastination.
You can read the full story on Fast Company post.
As many of you may have noticed, today, a new look and feel is present at the blog, not all the changes were merely visual, as the process is undergoing i will explain some of the changes.
Nicole Steinbok (@nicolesteinbok) came up with the 22 minutes meeting concept, presented at Seattle Ignite 9, according to Scott Berkum, got the first touch with it on his blog.
I tweeted about it and Qworky asked my opinion, so i will try to express myself.
Just finished the reading of the “Focus: Use the Power of Targeted Thinking to Get More Done” book, the book was a pleasant surprise.
One big aspects of the book , EASY TO READ, i bought this book on a Saturday and got it finished by the next Wednesday, is really an easy to read book with lots of small tips on getting your productivity into the right path.
Image from the Cover of the Portuguese Edition
Just had a “back to the old times” weekend, a lot of readings around the internet, below are the more interesting readings i had over the last week(end).
Blogosphere
“How I Made $100K With Twitter” by Amber Naslund
The number could be impressive, but the content is even more, a lesson on how to monetize your business using Twitter. A must read.
“10 Ways To Generate Business Leads On Twitter” by Raj Dash
Great tips on maximizing your business Twitter presence.
“5 Ways to Get Customer Feedback — For Free” by Doriano “Paisano” Carta
Some tools suggestions on customer feedback collect.
“7 Must Read Success Lessons from Donald Trump” by Mr. Self Development
Some motivational success phrases by Donald Trump. Always good to read about.
Books
Just couldn’t resist buying a book, this time the chosen one was:
“Focus: The Power of Targeted Thinking” by Jurgen Wolff [Amazon link]
What were yours ?
Hi, just enjoyed the weekend putting my readings on time, and i must say, some of the readings were just superb.
1. Finished reading the book “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal (Hardcover)” – Link to Amazon
The story is just great! A lot of tricks and leaving people behind scenes, always with a goal in mind, make Facebook one of the biggest websites live, i believe that the result speaks by himself. A must read, for sure a 8 in 10.
2. Things I’ve learned as an entrepreneur — Part 1 Blog post – Link
A list of truths that every entrepreneur will say, i have been there.
3. 10 Things every young entrepreneur should know – blog post Link
Just another list about global entrepreneur tips, the strongest of the list for me is “get used to receive NO as an answer”, still worth your 5 minutes.
This were my weekend top readings, what’s yours ?
Now, that i am back home, i can write down my thoughts on PHP Benelux 2010, realized in Antwerp, Belgium.
I just signed out for the conference, without really knowing anyone, except from the blogs and previous presentations, i landed in Belgiun without any real expectations about what i was going to bring back to Portugal form the conference.
The venue was nice enough for the event presentation, the reception of the event was just great, no need to be a long time waiting for the badge and no hiccups when asking for it. The conference rooms where nice, talk 2 room chairs where somehow not so comfortable, but in general everyone was happy from what i could see. The schedule was nicely controlled by the organization and no big delays occurred, it’s the first time that i saw no real delays happen on a conference of this size, cheers for you guys.
The speakers were just great, a lot of PHP known names in the list, with a set of great talks to deliver. Just loved all, but Lorna Jane and Cal Evans where just great, i had to deliver this opinion.
Sometimes had the hard job of choosing what talk to see, when some of them just overlap at same time, but i’m convicted that i made a great choice, so what did i saw ?
1. Opening Keynote: – The PHP Universe by Derick Rethans
2. Dependency Injection in PHP 5.2 and 5.3 by Fabien Potencier
3. Get the most out of Solr search with PHP by Paul Borgermans
4. PHP applications/environments monitoring: APM & Pinba by Patrick Allaert/Davide Mendolia
5. PHPillow & CouchDB & PHP by Kore Nordmann
6. Passing the Joel Test in the PHP World by Lorna Mitchell
7. Generating dynamic PDFs using Zend Framework and JavaBridge by Eric Ritchie
8. Closing Keynote: Open Teams by Cal Evans
I just left my comments on Joind.in, if you’re feeling curious just go on and check the audience comments on each talks. http://joind.in/event/view/110
Some of the presentations are now uploaded into Slideshare, sho go on and check them out: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/phpbnl10 and some photos on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/phpbnl10/.
In conclusion, the conference was just great, i am extremely happy for making around 1000 miles to go there and meet the people and watch the conference live. It as great to meet Jeremy and Priscilla Coates and quickly meet Lorna Jane.
Congratulations to all the people that put effort on making the conference memorable and see you all soon.
Just run into a link where the Twitpic story was being told, just found the numbers around Twitpic just impressive.
The interview deserves your time, it’s a really inspiring story, on, how a weekend project worked on a Millions revenue stream.
And great news about this, Twitpic will soon have oAuth support, is just like someone hear me.
Inspired by the article of Mixergy.
