The president of my company, Mark Griffis at Aviture, posed a question to all of us months back: What is your “Why“? What drives us in our position at the company, in our careers, in our lives? Why are we here? I believe his goal was to inspire us to identify our own career path, […]
Category: Get Things Done
Mind Mapping FTW: Becoming a MindMeister Ambassador
I have been mind mapping since 2010 and I have been using MindMeister since 2011. I have read many books on learning techniques and confirmed the evidence that taking notes, organizing thoughts and rephrasing facts in your own terms leads to better retention and comprehension. I found myself struggling doing this effectively with traditional notes, […]
Google Now Reminders
A major feature announcement at GoogleIO 2013 was Google Now Reminders. When Google Now was launched I was very excited for reminders, but it was implemented horribly. It would set an alarm, like a wake up alarm, to remind you. This is not how I want to be reminded. I ended up putting reminders into […]
Linux Watch Command Fails on Second Try
I am not a system admin so I don’t remember how to do an infinite loop in bash, tcsh, ksh, perl, wtv*sh etc. So I really like the solution of the ‘watch‘ command. Example: The Problem on Second Try Sometimes, however, the first try works as desired and the second try prints weird errors, often […]
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning – Book Thoughts and Notes
Since graduating college I have mixed research of new technologies with research of being as productive as I can be. This includes development tools like IDE’s, good testing tools, and better pair programming techniques. But also I try to keep up with the popular Get Things Done (GTD) movement, most recently utilizing Spring Pad as […]
Hello World
This is not my first website, not my first wordpress blog, not even my first developer blog. It is the first post of what I plan on being a blog I stick with. I plan to document some of the developer habits, cool things, and misconceptions of the professional career of a web developer in […]