The Pomodoro Technique
A developer friend of mine, Toni Feltman, was Tweeting about reading the Pomodoro Technique. This technique is meant to increase productivity by focusing on a task uninterpted for 25 minute blocks, followed by a short break, and then repeating. Every four 25 minute blocks, you can take a longer break. Read more about the Pomodoro [...]
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REAL World 2008 – Day 3
I woke up on time on Friday morning, the last day. I’ve got to get ready, pack up, and check out. My wife is Iming me over Skype with some technical support questions. She’s wanting to black out sensitive information in a contract before sending it to a client. She had loaded the PDF contract [...]
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REAL World 2008 – Day 2
Gawd, is that my alarm? I get up. There I did it. Headed down for some breakfast. Scrambled egg tacos. Yummy. The OJ was super tasty too. I don’t know why but it really was. I must once again comment on how cool RW attendees are. They’re such a diverse crowd from all different professional [...]
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REAL World 2008 – Day 1
So, I check in and drop my bag off in my room. The bed calls my name beckoning me with a call … “Sleep, sleep, sleep.” I will not be seduced. I have technology also calling me and the promise of learning something is stronger than the short term satisfaction of REM sleep. I go [...]
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REAL World 0.1
It seems as if my last few weeks, I’ve been pushing myself to the max. I normally don’t like to fill up my life that much. Well, I’ve been looking forward to RW for a while now, and it has arrived before I knew it. I’ve been in Birmingham, AL on Monday and Tuesday of [...]
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Gates and M$’ future direction in programming?
My friend, Russell Campbell, sent me this link this morning. Gates talks up declarative modeling language effort F(@*$($(*&*#(*$$*#()@) I’m so happy I’m getting off the M$ B$. Here’s my favorite quote that I think says it all: “It’s something that will change software development…” Of course this is a gem too: “… a lot of [...]
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InfoWorld article on REALbasic
Here is a short but sweet article on REALbasic from InfoWorld. The main gist of the article is that RB2008R1 will be gaining the features of introspection and possibly some web features. What I’m wondering is if these two things are directly related. To create an AJAX version of a RB form, say, a program [...]
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Making REALbasic impersonate VFP
When transitioning from one language to another, there’s always an awkward time where you’re thinking like the old language, and struggling with the new. In the past it has been of help to create functions in the new language to help the transition process. Eventually the “transition” function set is abandoned for the pure implementation [...]
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Got a new Puppy
My kids demanded it. They were fighting, causing trouble. I finally gave in. They were fighting over the computer. I had some (very) old laptops hanging around and I decided to slap Puppy Linux on one of them. Just damn. Every time I try Puppy, it is astounding. Stupid name, great product. This doorstop of [...]
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REALbasic presentation tonight at Atlanta Foxpro Users Group
I’m presenting my FoxForward sessions (condensed) at the AFUG meeting tonight. This is a brand new location for us at KC Pit BBQ but it sounds great: food, drink, private room for the presentation, wireless Internet. If they serve Mt. Dew, I’m set! I’m nervous about the presentation. I learned yesterday that I’m presenting so [...]
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