Mental notes to myself » Productivity

Standardized Web Site Development Workflow

Harun Yayli — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:21:28 +0000

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)

Harun Yayli — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:43:44 +0000

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

Harun Yayli — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:40:03 +0000

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

Ten Ways to Kill Design

Harun Yayli — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:21:03 +0000

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

Harun Yayli — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:52:44 +0000

43 folders has a great article on writing an email

Cornell Notetaking Method

Harun Yayli — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:00:24 +0000

Very effective method for notetaking…
Good for meetings.

2005 SALARY SURVEY

Harun Yayli — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:28:58 +0000

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

Harun Yayli — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:11:50 +0000

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

Harun Yayli — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:55:04 +0000

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