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RPG Development Progress Pulse

Progress Pulse Series I figured this would be a fun thing to start to do just to get small updates out and talk about what I've been working on for ProjectXyz and my RPG I'm building in Unity3D. This will hopefully be some small updates on the order of semi to bi-weekly about what kinds of things are going on when I'm programming for these projects. This could include: How and why I decided to refactor something A new design practice I'm trying Reflecting on why a design decision has(n't) been working out A new feature that's interesting etc... Some of these will be technical and others much less. A bit of progress pulse allows me an outlet to talk about interesting things I'm doing and maybe sheds some light on some areas (game development or just general programming) that…

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June 27, 2018

Small Business / Tips

Experimenting with Paid for Ads for Web Traffic

Why Did I Consider Paid for Ads? I wrote a post about focusing on some of my strengths in order to minimize risk in new areas, and part of that meant focusing on increasing brand awareness for DevLeader as a proving ground. The idea of driving more web traffic to my blog via ads came up because I was interested in experimenting with Instagram ads for my show car branding, but not knowing anything about paid for ads made taking that first step feel pretty risky. What should I expect for paying for ads? What will $1 get me? What will $10 get me? I have no idea where to start with this kind of thing, so I felt it was important to use my more solid brand, DevLeader, as the basis for this experiment. If I can watch what happens…

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June 1, 2018

Perspective

Doubling Down: My Specific Strategy

Doubling Down: The Quick Background I recently wrote about how and why I'm looking to double down on my strength to improve a weakness, and I figured it would be a great follow up to try and explain the specifics in my strategy. It's an interesting learning opportunity for me, so why not share it with those that are interested? The format of this post is really just to call out the specifics of some strategies I'm looking at exploring when building the brand for my vehicle to help with sponsorship opportunities. Reach Outside Core Audiences This one shouldn't be a shock to you if you're familiar with this blog already. It's primarily aimed at programming, leadership in a tech environment, and self reflecting as a means to improve. One of my goals is to explore attracting other audiences that…

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May 31, 2018

DIY

Raspberry Pi + WordPress => A Beginners Guide to PiPress

In the past, I've dabbled a bit with hosting my own server on a spare outdated box that likely should have been thrown out. My least favourite thing to do is sit down and tinker with trying to get services and such configured so that they all work together... But once it's working, it's glorious. Enter the Raspberry Pi. Earlier this year I decided I wanted to get a Pi. Why? I wasn't too sure... But they're cheap and nothing bad could come of it :) Once I got the thing up and running I was reading about how people were using them. Hosting a Wordpress site was definitely one of the uses, so I figured I'd try my hand at that. There are other guides on The Internet about how to do this, but this is what got me up…

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September 4, 2013

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