Matt Heerema

Mid-April Design Linkage

In addition to all the GTD links, there were some excellent Web design links. Here are some of the best (IMO)

• Getting Creative with Web transparency - rounds up some good cross-browser PNG transparency techniques
• 60 More AJAX and JavaScript Solutions for Professional Coding - I’m becoming a jQuery or custom-only guy, but there are some neat tricks here.
• eXtreme Type Terminology - Typography lingo 101
• FREE Typefaces from Ten by Twenty - Jura, Nevis, and Munro, three of the hottest free fonts I’ve seen.
• 63 Must-have Grunge fonts - because you know, you need 63…
• Take Control of Your Maps - Don’t default to Google Maps API on your next Web app :)
• 20 Rare Questions for Google Search Guru Udi Manber

Mid-April GTD Links

After having my head down with the Engadget / AOL Tech launch for the last month, I’ve been neglecting organization and pretty much… everything else except for my family. It’s been refreshing to get back into the groove. The inbox is cleaned out, my desktop (computer and physical) is clean again, and I’m starting to communicate with the outside world :)

There were some very good articles backlogged in my feed reader from that time. (most via Lifehacker, Unclutterer, Diethack, and Zen Habits)

• How To Cope With A Stressful Life - very helpful read to me :)
• 8 Little-known techniques to help you burn more fat and calories - going to try and start incorporating these into my diet
• From 10000 to 0 e-mails in an inbox in 24 hours - It is possible. Do it.
• Bringing your bookshelves back to order - constant point of difference between the wife and I :)

Giving Birth to a Tech Network

Well, it’s not news anymore, but we re-launched Engadget (and all the sub-Engadgets) and packaged a few other of our sites into a juggernaut Tech-blog network. I am physically and emotionally exhausted from it all. I could write a book on the process, I may attempt snippets of it on this blog. Sorry I didn’t post about it right away, but I needed a few days away from the computer to recoup. Besides, there was enough being written about it anyway. Here’s some of the coverage:

• Techcrunch
• Blogherald
• Daily Blog Tips
• ProBlogging
• Somewhat Frank
• Silicon Alley Insider
• Official AOL Corporate Release

Great work Mark and Erik, and thanks, Snook for the killer jQuery implementation

Big News Coming Soon (And I’m Still Getting Things Done)

(In case you missed the other big news going on right now: we’re expecting again :) This will be #2 for us. Due in October. We’re very excited and incredibly blessed. We’d appreciate prayers, if you’re the praying type.)

I’ve been pretty quite on the Internets recently. Been “heads-down” on a huge project ever since SXSW. I’ll get to talk about it towards the end of the week :) I can vouch for the absolute productivity boost of remaining off twitter, out of Facebook/other soc.net sites, and staying invisible or offline of your IM. I wonder how people used to work in the days before these things…

I’m still continuing to study and practice “getting things done” methodology. Focusing mostly on staying de-cluttered. This has had the effect of vastly freeing up a part of my brain I didn’t know was occupied. Here are some recent good links along that line.

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