My good friend asked me to do a web site for him and well, I finally got around to knocking it out. Its basically a business card web site but for an artist, its anything but cut and dry. Check out my latest development effort artbyluka.com

The site is pretty minimal as really, its best to keep the text to a minimum here and just show off the art work. One little item that I found a lot easier than expected was being able to harvest data out of facebook. With a little bit of coding, I was able to create a very function portfolio using images that were posted on the ArtByLuka fan page. The whole portfolio probably took me less than 2 hours to do. Its that freaking easy!

As I was doing my best today to not check email and actually program I thought about something that I would be intersted in using. Heck, I might even be willing to pay $5 for something of this nature. The software that I’m looking for is a software plugin for Mail.app that would give me stats on my email activity. Things I’d like to track are:

• Number of messages received in a given time period/li>

This is one of my biggest frustrations at work. I tend to get more done when I have the headphones on, email closed, IM on do not disturb, and no meetings scheduled. This is done the easiest at home.

One step we can take to help our fellow co-workers out is, don’t IM them, email. You can safely ignore email for a while. IM should be reserved for ‘I need your attention right now!’

A while ago, I wrote about my Inbox being out of control. I didn’t just bitch about it, I took action. And so far, I’ve done what I would consider a decent job of keeping it clean. I wouldn’t say its A+ work, but I’d give my efforts a B. Ok, maybe C lately with the little one arriving and trying to play catch up.

How have I kept up with the email onslaught: