by Shankar Poncelet | Sep 13, 2016 | Personal, Self Improvement
It’s exactly one year ago since I embarked on the freelancing journey. Freelancing is an experience that nobody can prepare you to. Neither professors at school, nor your friends and relatives have a clue what it is about, unless they have tried it themselves. Let me...
by Shankar Poncelet | Aug 4, 2016 | Marketing, Personal, Self Improvement, Services
A customer of mine asked me to help him create a page about his persona, his interests, projects and achievements. A personal website is different from a company website, an informational website, or an online store. It represents you, which is why it needs to be good...
by Shankar Poncelet | Jun 17, 2016 | Business Strategy, Marketing, Self Improvement
Successful People Agree The growth of a business and good communication go hand in hand. To be a successful professional you need to master the art of public speaking. Warren Buffett has insisted that the most important skill a person should enhance in order to become...
by Shankar Poncelet | Apr 30, 2016 | Personal, Self Improvement
The San Antonio Business Journal printed a very interesting article in this weekend’s issue. The article starts by informing the reader that About 22 percent of the nearly 30,000 San Antonio-area businesses with paid employees in 2012 — the most recent year for...
by Shankar Poncelet | Apr 18, 2016 | BLOC Apprenticeship, Design and Development, Self Improvement
This is blog post number 6 about my journey to becoming a software engineer. As an already experienced developer I was pretty much able to breeze through my assignments so far. Fortunately that changed a little bit recently. Why fortunately? Because I like being...
by Shankar Poncelet | Apr 7, 2016 | Design and Development, Self Improvement
There are several stages every web developer has to go through. For a long time one is just using other developers’ tools. You have no idea how many people are out in the wild, calling themselves web developers, and all they can do is install WordPress and...
