I have had a 24″ monitor at work for a while and recently bought myself a 24″ for use as a second monitor on my 17″ iMac at home. I really enjoy the extra screen real estate that a large monitor with a resolution of 1920×1200 provides. However most applications don’t really make good use [...]
I have made an interesting discovery since I started taking our new puppies to work with me: I actually seem to be more productive now than I was before I started taking the puppies to work! The pups generally need to be taken outside to relieve themselves and run off some energy every hour or [...]
I was explaining this to some junior programmers the other day and it’s worth repeating. Failure is fine in software engineering, in fact it is expected: I get nervous if something works first time these days as I know my limits and expect to make mistakes. However I think that new programmers don’t always realise [...]
You may have noticed the lack of updates this week, I was in the office all weekend implementing something for a customer, so that they could then evaluate it this week which they were not expecting. I do not mind doing the occasional brief bit of overtime like this, especially when it is my idea. [...]
Regularly taking time to pause and then review and reflect on how you could improve, and then experimenting based on those thoughts is key to personal improvement and increasing productivity. This technique has really been highlighted to me since starting to use Agile development methodologies like Scrum where at at the end of each [...]