I really love Highrise. It is a 37signals service that helps you organise your contacts, your conversations with these contacts, cases, deals and tasks. Highrise also sends task notifications using SMS. Unfortunately it only supports specific providers for certain countries only. My country (Greece) as well as many other countries all over the world are not included in that list. Nevertheless, I managed to make Highrise send notifications to my mobile phone through Google Calendar.
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!
In 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.
It 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.
After 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.
Recently, 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.
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