Contents tagged with goals2004_Estimation
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Re-useable harness for tray-based applications
Today I started writing a new little hobby application / productivity tool which I'm planning to implement as tray application. The first thing that I did was to crack open the code from Duncan's 3rd Coding For Fun article titled: "Checking My Email"
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Some quality developer time
My previous 3 weeks has re-installed the feeling that building computer applications is a great thing to do. Some quick reminders for myself:
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Only making Good mistakes helps :-)
After my last blog entry about the risks relating to juggling to much uncertaintly I stumbled upon ^Z's 1999 entry about making “Good Mistakes“. I think that there's something profound in there - for me especially! Thanks for that Mark :-)
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Always try one new thing but not two.
I've got a software related creed that I've managed to adhere to for several years now and, in my opinion it has been largely responsible for keeping me out of harms way; it's a simple creed and it goes something like this:
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Productivity and Efficiency - being more productive
Good to see that Mark has blog'ged about some of the productivity based ideas that came up during a recent e-mail session that we shared. Hopefully I'll have time to construct some of the ideas that I had about this topic into a well written post sometime soon :-)
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Software Construction - Goals for '04
I've seen many a New Years resolution blogged over the past week: promises, hopes, dreams and even pure speculation; so, I thought that I might lay down my own vision for the year.