One of the tools I really appreciate because it helps me enhance my communication is Jing. Jing has a free edition that supports both screen captures with annotations and video captures with voice!
Using Jing while working remotely
June 24th, 2009How to avoid alienation while working remotely
June 23rd, 2009In my previous post, I mention that we started working remotely in order to improve our productivity. I chose “remote work” because I believe it solves some issues. Most of the times, however, when you try to solve a bunch of problems, you may create a bunch of new ones. In the end you may not gain anything despite the effort.
Working remotely
June 22nd, 2009It all started 6 months ago. I was pressed by management to improve our team’s productivity. We are a team of 4 programmers with me as a leader. I identified some factors that in my opinion influenced our productivity and I reckoned working remotely could eliminate them. As a result we could increase our productivity.
Video on Usability by Adam Dunford and Jason Edwards
June 18th, 2009Failing job post
June 17th, 2009I have just read a job post in some job site and among other requirements, they are asking for a “multitasking” person.
CruiseControl.NET recent version control change behavior in 1.4.x
June 15th, 2009After changing to CruiseControl.NET 1.4.x, my builds started sending weird Subversion related error messages. You see, my CC.NET server is on a different computer and on a different network than my Subversion repositories server. As a result, CC.NET tries download modifications using the Internet.
Jason Fried of 37 Signals @ Big Omaha 2009
May 23rd, 2009Jason Fried @ Big Omaha 2009 from Big Omaha on Vimeo.
Some points of interest from the video:
- Charge for your products
- Don’t use plans
- Don’t work all together in open spaces where every one can interrupt each other
- Share your knowledge and watch for things that can be extracted into products
- Ideas are for ever, but inspiration for implementing them can expire
Be productive by not multitasking
May 2nd, 2009Recently, I discovered something about myself. One way to actually do something worth throughout the course of a day, is break down my tasks into very small units of work. Then, start working on one unit of work at a time.
Use List(T) ForEach method instead of foreach
April 29th, 2009If you have the right .NET version you can use:
Hello world in Ruby
April 27th, 2009This is Hello World in Ruby:
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