Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Friday, February 03, 2006
Getting Things Done
Last night, I attended the CJUG-West Symposium and was fortunate to hear Andy Hunt of the Pragmatic Programmer fame. His was a very thoughtprovoking presentation on "Refactoring your WetWare". Hopefully, all his teachings will see the form of a book by the end of the year. He stressed on the need for R-mode thinking in Software Development.
Andy, after the talk did mention about the concept of "Getting Things Done". There is a book by the same name and if you do not have time to scout for it, there is a related website/blog on this:
The Anxiety of Getting Things Done
Also, I would like to point out Andy's blog.
Andy's Hunt's Blog
Dave Thomas's blog
Some additional pointers from his talk:
Some salient points from the talk:
* Cultivate R-Mode Processing.
- White board. Sheets of papers and not computer keyboard.
- Think in isolation for few mins/hours with zero distraction.
- A notebook to jot down ideas and maybe a Fisher Space Pen.
* Accelerate Learning.
- Try doing it first.
- Take small pieces. Get it to work.
- Scan a book for its TOC. Read it once. Make notes/ask questions. Reread it again and then finally discuss it with colleagues.
* Manage the Torrent. (Manage the S/N Ratio)
- Make notes.
- Use a personal wiki.
Also, Andy pointed out that you can get free pocket organizers from Pocket Mod
Interesting statistic:
"Interrupted by email or IM, your IQ drops 10 points. You smoke a joint, IQ drops 4 points".
Also, "Context Switching is a killer to productivity".
References:
GTD Wikipedia
Andy, after the talk did mention about the concept of "Getting Things Done". There is a book by the same name and if you do not have time to scout for it, there is a related website/blog on this:
The Anxiety of Getting Things Done
Also, I would like to point out Andy's blog.
Andy's Hunt's Blog
Dave Thomas's blog
Some additional pointers from his talk:
- The Dreyfus Model
- "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", book by Betty Edwards
- Cultivating the R-Mode, Lazanov
- Hackers and Painters, by Paul Graham
Some salient points from the talk:
* Cultivate R-Mode Processing.
- White board. Sheets of papers and not computer keyboard.
- Think in isolation for few mins/hours with zero distraction.
- A notebook to jot down ideas and maybe a Fisher Space Pen.
* Accelerate Learning.
- Try doing it first.
- Take small pieces. Get it to work.
- Scan a book for its TOC. Read it once. Make notes/ask questions. Reread it again and then finally discuss it with colleagues.
* Manage the Torrent. (Manage the S/N Ratio)
- Make notes.
- Use a personal wiki.
Also, Andy pointed out that you can get free pocket organizers from Pocket Mod
Interesting statistic:
"Interrupted by email or IM, your IQ drops 10 points. You smoke a joint, IQ drops 4 points".
Also, "Context Switching is a killer to productivity".
References:
GTD Wikipedia
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Useful Unix/Dos Commands
1. Remove all files and directories with starting character from a-z
rm -rf `find . -name "[a-z]*"`
Subversion Info
Subversion Cheat Sheet
To checkout branch v0.5 of Apache Scout:
1. Remove all files and directories with starting character from a-z
rm -rf `find . -name "[a-z]*"`
Subversion Info
Subversion Cheat Sheet
To checkout branch v0.5 of Apache Scout:
$ svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/webservices/scout/branches/v0.5
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