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Home offices and co-working spaces are growing in numbers. To me, it comes as no surprise that large corporations are losing workers to the freelancing and startup lifestyle.

More and more people realize that there’s only one life to live. Yes, that includes a professional life as well. You have one career ahead of you and you better make it into something you really enjoy doing. Otherwise, why do it?

With freelancing comes the responsibility of marketing yourself. Traditionally that includes printing business card and setting up a cool portfolio website. Okay, we should...

Today I was trying to set up my iPad so that I can connect remotely to my Linux servers in case of emergency. My servers only allow password-less connections via SSH keys, so I needed to set up those key pairs on my iPad and servers.

When trying to connect from the iPad through iSSH or Prompt, I always got the message “Server refused our key”, while I was sure I put the correct key into ~/username/.ssh/authorized_keys. But of course, when we thing we’re right, Linux shows us we are not.

It’s true. Life moves pretty fast and that applies especially to anyone working in the web design space where new interesting frameworks and techniques pop up every hour or so. I love creating applications and websites. But I also love teaching about what I’ve learned to aspiring web designers and developers in school. There’s so much to do and so little time in a day. That’s why it’s important for me to slow down from time to time.

Here are five things I do that help me balance my days. These activities...

I’ve been playing around with Appcelerator Titanium lately and wrote a tutorial for the Dutch edition of Web Designer Magazine on how you can use the framework to build native apps for iOS and Android.

The code I used throughout the tutorial is based on what I used to create the Pakfriet app, an app for iPhone that lets you locate places that sell typical Belgian fries.

If you’re interested in getting started with Titanium, check out the tutorial in Web Designer Magazine issue 49.

Happy reading!

Great things come from small countries and besides an overdose of tasty beers, waffles and Brussels sprouts, we’re still quite proud of our fries here in Belgium. A frituur or frietkot as we call it here, is a place where you go to grab a freshly baked portion of fries.

You don’t find those friet-places like we have them here in Belgium in other countries, definitely not as often as you can find them here.

For anyone fond of good Belgian fries (that’s right, we don’...