productivity

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

I do it all the time. And it is hard not to sometimes when you get into the flow and you keep thinking of cool new feature after cool new fe...read more

Finding ways to manage a project can be a challenge, particularly these days with hundreds of new apps coming out claiming to be the champ i...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

This morning I was sitting down sipping on my usual Peruvian light roast coffee. Getting that energy spike up and firing up my editor to wri...read more

One of the hardest things to do these days if you are a student, researcher, scientist, etc, is to keep track of your notes in an effective ...read more

Many of you have been trying to learn to code for weeks, months or even years and as soon as you feel like you are getting somewhere and thi...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

Technology is rapidly changing these days as the number of developers and companies increases at a surprising rate. It definitely makes sen...read more

Nikola Tesla has been making the news rounds lately, probably due to his recent birthday. Happy late birthday Mr. Tesla. And after reading ...read more

Sure, the reds, blues, and purples on the IDE look like a ton of fun, but there comes a time when stying a nav bar for 2 hours just isn't a...read more

There are main 2 ways that you'll be working in an office environment if you're a programmer. And that's either in a cubicle, which we've s...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

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

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

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 there's one benefit to working for any tech company, it is that most allow you (the programmers) the freedom to drown out your entire su...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

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

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

Greetings there. Before you continue with the post, please hit the start button down below, read the passage and then hit the stop button w...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

Multitasking has been my enemy for as long as I can remember, I just didn't know it at the time. The concept of multitasking is fantastic. ...read more