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For episode 68, John Rogerson returns to the podcast to share more tips on efficient ExpressionEngine development.

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Tags: Don't Repeat Yourself, DRY, EE, EE Podcast, efficiency, embeds, ExpressionEngine, John Rogerson, optimization, podcasts, templates, templating

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Since going freelance full-time (almost two full years ago, oh my!), my professional life has been a series of learning experiences. Of course, I'm picking up new techniques and attempting to master new technologies. But the most important lessons, I've discovered, have more to do with who I am (and how I handle myself) as a person and a professional.

When I worked as part of a team for my former employers, the success (or failure) of a project was distributed. Additionally, as the lowest person on the totem pole, my opinions rarely counted which pretty much led to me not voicing opinions. As such, I never really took the time to evaluate myself much outside of what I produced.

Now that I'm wholly responsible for my success, I'm starting to discover that I can make my projects better and my clients happier with more than excellent web design and dev. It isn't just the work I produce, but how I go about producing.

Ego, for instance, can be a major roadblock to any endeavor. Which is why I chose it as the topic for my April contribution to The Pastry Box Project.

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Tags: business, ego, Emily Lewis, freelancing, humanity, relationships, shameless self promotion, The Pastry Box Project, writing

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A new episode of the EE Podcast is available for your listening pleasure!

For episode 67, Lea and I talked with EllisLab CEO Leslie Camacho, who gave us the lowdown on running EllisLab as a virtual company.

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Tags: business, distributed companies, EE, EE Podcast, ExpressionEngine, Leslie Camacho, podcasts, remote teams, virtual companies

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A new episode of the EE Podcast is available for your listening pleasure!

For episode 66, we discuss managing galleries natively with ExpressionEngine, as well as add-on options and front-end considerations.

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Tags: add-ons, EE, EE Podcast, ExpressionEngine, image galleries, images, podcasts, tips

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I recently came across the following quote from sociologist and Harvard professor Charles Willie:

“By idolizing those whom we honor we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves. … We fail to recognize the fact that we could go and do likewise.”

This quote was the inspiration for my March contribution to The Pastry Box Project, which is now available for your reading pleasure!

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Tags: colleagues, cut people some slack, Emily Lewis, humanity, idols, quotes, relationships, shameless self promotion, The Pastry Box Project, writing

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Script Junkie, the tutorial site I've been writing for since 2010, has been fairly quiet lately. That's because they've been making a move to MSDN Magazine.

Now the move is (mostly) complete (aside from a few URL redirects they are still addressing), and tutorials should return to a regular publishing schedule. I've seen some of the topics lined up, and they are not to be missed!

Speaking of not to be missed, I wrote an article for Script Junkie in the midst of their move and it's finally live! Flexibility: A Foundation for Responsive Design covers the process I followed for creating a flexible layout for the EE Podcast site.

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Tags: Emily Lewis, flexible design, fluid design, layout, media queries, MSDN Magazine, responsive web design, Script Junkie, shameless self promotion, writing

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A new episode of the EE Podcast is available for your listening pleasure!

For episode 65, Lea and I share some time-saving techniques to help make your ExpressionEngine workflows more efficient.

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A new episode of the EE Podcast is available for your listening pleasure! And this one is already in my Top 10!

For episode 64, we talk about selling ExpressionEngine with EllisLab's Marcus Neto and Brad Parscale of Parscale Media and DevDemon.

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Tags: Brad Parscale, business, EE Podcast, EE podcasts, ExpressionEngine, freelancing, Marcus Neto, sales, selling

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There's a new podcast in town, The Non-Breaking Space Show!

Hosted by Christopher Schmitt and Dave McFarland — with the editing and production talent of Chris Enns — the show features interviews with “best and brightest on the web.”

Already the show has talked with such great and talented guests as Ethan Marcotte, Paul Irish and Chris Coyier. And the third episode is an interview with me!

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Tags: Emily Lewis, freelancing, microdata, microformats, podcasts, schema.org, semantic markup, semantics, shameless self promotion, The Non-Breaking Space Show

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A new episode of the EE Podcast is available for your listening pleasure!

For episode 63, we talk with Aaron Gustafson about progressive enhancement and his book Adaptive Web Design.

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Tags: Aaron Gustafson, Adaptive Web Design, EE, EE Podcast, ExpressionEngine, podcasts, progressive enhancement

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