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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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.