How ‘Resilient Management’ Helps, Part 1
Lara Hogan’s book “Resilient Management” provides a great reference for managers and served as a great validator of my management style.
Diving into Design Systems
It seems design systems have taken the web world by storm, so I thought I’d dive in and see what it’s all about.
Update: The Bland Brettrospective
An update on where I am with redesign my blog’s theme.
My Creative Toolbox
I ran across a post in 2014 where the writer documented his web development toolbox. I loved the idea, so I’ve documented my toolbox here.
What Is ‘Uncle Sam, Inc.’?
It’s important to me to keep a clear separation from the work I do for the government and the work I do on my own.
Website Content Workflow
As I’ve (slowly) began writing again, I documented my workflow for planning content, writing it and ultimately posting it.
The Perfect User Interface Sketch Pad
Check out the perfect sketch pad for me to take pencil to paper as I ideate on designs for brettro.com
Content Management Systems I’ve Used
Documenting the content management systems I’ve used over the years.
Closing Brettro
After 12 years in business I closed Brettrospective Media’s virtual doors in mid-2017.
The Bland Brettrospective
As I rekindled my blog I realized its custom theme hadn’t been touched in nearly seven years so as I design and develop the new one I plan to document my decisions and the things I learn here.
Where Have I Been?
With an already demanding full-time job, I was burning the candle at both ends trying to meet the needs of my clients and the demands of my job and in early 2013 I burnt out.
On ExpressionEngine vs. WordPress
Because I was already using ExpressionEngine on a daily basis, I felt that I needed to use WordPress on a website that I would also work with daily so that I would become equally as familiar with it. And so I chose WordPress to be the CMS for brettro.com.