I spend this weekend organizing my computer. It isn’t fun, but it has to be done. Why am I sharing this? I think one of the downsides of LinkedIn posts is that it tells you something that is easy to do, but doesn’t share the things that take real work. I spent the majority of my weekend doing the boring task of deleting and organizing emails. My hand was tired and I would have rather done something more fun, but I was running low on space so I had to do it. Being successful means that you have to do things that you would rather not do sometimes. I had…

I wanted to experiment with a tabbed interface in WordPress. I used Everest Tab lite to do it. Why did I choose this? I tried two dozen other tab plugins. They all had issues with the content I wanted to put in it. I use a plugin called H5P content to create interactive content. Many of the tab plugins didn’t support this content or had issues with it. As you know many WordPress plugins don’t test with other WordPress plugins, so when you use them together you sometimes find issues. What I liked about this is that it worked with the H5P content plugin, and it worked well on mobile…

I am taking today to organize and optimize my computer. I finally get a break and now I am making myself even more efficient. Why should you organize and optimize your computer? There are several reasons. The more files you have on your desktop the slower your computer goes. I learned from my computer friend that the more icons and things it has to redraw and keep in memory, the less resources are available for running programs. Last week I got an out of memory error message on my Mac with 8GB of ram. So I have to organize some of my files. The more things you have on your…