Archive for the 'Productivity' Category

Standardized Web Site Development Workflow

on Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

There is an interesting article about Web site development workflow at smileycat.

Worths checking:

  • Concept
  • Discovery
  • Content development
  • Design
  • Development
  • Launch
  • Post-launch

When C is the Best (Tool for the Job)

on Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Here is a great article why C should be prefered sometimes, which I totally agree:

  • Portability
  • Open-Sourcability
  • Low-levelness
  • Self-contained-ness
  • Making use of UNIXisms
  • Integrability
  • Speed and Memory Consumption
  • Here is the rest : link

    The Noguchi Filing System

    on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

    This is an interesting article about Noguchi Yukio’s filing system.

    Ten Ways to Kill Design

    on Monday, October 3rd, 2005

    Kim Goodwin’s nice article about killing a design reminded me that these analysis can be applied to any kind of software project.

    Here is the killer 10:
    1. Poor choice of pilot project
    2. Not having one consistent project owner
    3. Incomplete design or insufficient design communication
    4. Not getting buy-in from top executives
    5. The wrong people doing design
    6. Not committing resources to design
    7. Failure to separate innovation from renovation
    8. The inmates are running the asylum
    9. Unrealistic expectations
    10. Unhealthy corporate culture

    read the rest here: link

    Writing sensible email messages

    on Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

    43 folders has a great article on writing an email

    Cornell Notetaking Method

    on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

    Very effective method for notetaking…
    Good for meetings.


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    2005 SALARY SURVEY

    on Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

    According to adtmag :

  • Application Development Managers range between $74,000 at entry level to $98,400 for more than two decades of experience.
  • Application Programmers range between $59,000 and $67,000
  • Systems programmers make between $67,150 and $77,000
  • Application programmer/analysts range between $63,800 and $73,000
  • Systems analysts $67,900 and $75,000
  • All in US dollars.

    http://www.adtmag.com/print.asp?id=11708

    Good programmers and Bad Programmers

    on Thursday, August 4th, 2005

    What does it mean to be “the best programmer” and are there really such major variations between the quality of software produced by different programmers?

    Joel Spolsky answers this question on his website

    Roboform

    on Friday, July 15th, 2005

    Hello,
    this time I’ll tell you about RoboForm.
    Roboform is a tool that fills all the forms in a webpage for you.
    It’s very simple to use. I use it everyday.
    Simply install it on your USB drive (no install needed). Boom. You’ve passwords everywhere you go.
    It encrypts your saved passwords with 3-DES or 1-DES (you select). So there is no problem if you loose you USB key.

    It also has a desktop version too…

    Download USB version: here.
    Download Desktop version: here
    Screenshots etc. : here