Productivity

Having to keep track of your day to day work, habits, goals, achievements and misses can feel like a full-time job much of the time. And that's why most people just don't bother to do it at all and live life hoping that it just works out in the end. Or they keep a notepad on their desk and randomly doodle important notes when they remember to do so....Read more

During the past few years I've had the opportunity to work on a variety of coding projects, both professional and personal. And in that time...Read more

The term burnout gets used way too liberally these days to imply any kind of dissatisfaction with your job.If you have an argument with your...Read more

The longer we do anything in life, the more bad habits we will inevitably accumulate. And the same holds true for programming. Sometimes we ...Read more

Whether you are brand new to coding or have been at it for the past decade, odds are that there is some area that could use improving when i...Read more

A programmer is many things. Particularly at a company. Not only do they build the software that other people rely on, but they also act lik...Read more

If you are a programmer then you know that there are those moments when you need more focus to get a task completed. Maybe it involves too m...Read more

Today I'm going to discuss a popular topic that comes up in conversation enough that it warrants a bit more information. And that is how to ...Read more

Have you ever found yourself driving down a new street in a different part of town than you are normally used to and you notice every single...Read more

For the past week, I've gone ahead and actively and almost religiously lived through the Pomodoro time-management Technique. And this m...Read more

Every individual has their own method for getting things done in their life. Whether it's through some online to do list application or thr...Read more

Programmer burnout is a common occurrence in this day and age. And probably back in the day too. It's hard to imagine that people like Alan...Read more

It's hard to picture a coffee shop these days that doesn't offer WiFi to its customers with the purchase of a drink. It's become common pra...Read more

To do lists are hard, as one can tell from the hundreds upon hundreds that exist out in the interwebs today. And for the most part, they al...Read more

No matter what stage your company is in, having a set of agreed upon standards is key to a maintainable code base and an organized eco-syst...Read more

There is a problem in the web development community when it comes to tracking user data. Not a problem, as in "it's broken again". But more...Read more

Just recently I re-read Steal Like An Artist, a fantastic book on the art of stealing ideas and being creative. And how the two concepts ar...Read more

I have a stuffed doll that talks when you put pressure on his chest. He says a number of things in a sequential order. And as I cleaned up ...Read more

One of the toughest things to battle once you reach a certain level of programming knowledge is the influx of ideas that will flow into you...Read more

Like many office workers, I had a long history of being a paper weight for office chairs. And I've tried all the chairs in life, believe me...Read more

Programming is a very dynamic field for the most part. Hundreds of languages, hundreds of frameworks, millions of people. But essentially, ...Read more

There's this place that a programmer goes to at times. Sometimes for a few hours and sometimes for a few days. It's a good place. A place o...Read more

What do you think of this? You do it, I do it, alot and lately I started to wonder why I bother. You know the moment. You just designed a w...Read more

If you look at the top 10 healthiest jobs in the world, being a software developer won't be in the top 100. For obvious reasons. Mainly, th...Read more

This is a question that has run through the minds of many many programmers in their coding career at some point or another, including mysel...Read more

Have you ever been around a group of friends and that existential dread, that looms over everyone, hits and you start to think about life c...Read more

Remember that time you took a super hard exam in elementary school, and you skipped question #1 because you were going to circle back to it...Read more

Anyone that saw the film The Pursuit of Happiness with Will Smith will remember that iconic scene, where Chris Gardner is walking down the ...Read more

So you finished that big project for a client and now you and your team are reveling in that feeling of completion. There were ups and down...Read more

Most jobs nowadays, still require you to get up early and get ready and to then spend a percentage of your life sitting inside of a vehicle...Read more

If you know me, you know that I'm not a fan of the standard 8 hour workday. And alot of that has to do with my outside of work activities, ...Read more

I've worked in several different companies throughout the years, and at home for a part of that time, and I've been comfortable and I've be...Read more

We've all been at the barrel end of that dreaded word we call a deadline. Many of us first encountered it during our school days. "This ass...Read more