Programming is energetic!

jan
25th
Posted on January 25th 2012 at 8:12pm by SKN3

Some may say that all computer programmers are lazy and their jobs are easy. I say, they are wrong!

I recently discovered this awesome tool call Gource. Gource will let you give it a log file and then it will generate a beautiful animation based on the information in the log file. The idea is that you retrieve the log file for your programming repository, feed it in and then Gource will animate the flow in which you worked and how your project grows over time.

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The Curious Case of the Hoodie

dec
2nd
Posted on December 2nd 2011 at 2:37pm by SKN3

It was a quiet evening in San Francisco. The roads were eerily empty and only the daring few scampered in and out of shops as the leaves blustered along in the wind. The air seemed thick with tension and the sounds of chattering game developers drawing ever closer murmured subtly pass Josh’s ears.

Earlier that week there had been an exciting delivery through Josh’s front door. A package from the UK! The parcel had a squishy dull sound but seemed to be shouting “open me!” Naturally Josh welcomed and obeyed his new parcel overlords and opened it without hesitation.

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Mmmm tomatoes and time management...

sep
14th
Posted on September 14th 2011 at 10:29am by SKN3

Everyone likes a good tomato, right? Well usually not for me but I will make an exception…

At SKN3 we have discovered that when you are working for yourself it is all too easy to get distracted. That one YouTube link someone sends to you soon becomes five-hundred and before you know it you have literally devastated an entire rainforest with the carbon emissions it takes the servers to deliver your crack like habit of pointless YouTube brain-farts. Wow that was a mouthful of a sentence. So what should one do?

About a month ago I was searching on techniques to help keep focused at work but without getting bogged down in graphs and that performance vs. keystrokes idiocy that some companies like to employ. I came across something called The Pomodoro Technique®.

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