Thanks to my new employer, I’m now happily a member of the three monitor club (better late than never). Three monitors are good, but three monitors plus WinSplit Revolution is freakin’ awesome. Snapping windows from monitor to monitor and resizing them from quadrant to quadrant with a quick keystroke actually makes me feel like this [...]
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Here’s a fun productivity enhancing tip that I picked up from JP at the Nothin But Net course I just took. If you’re much of a gamer, then Typing of the Dead, an old Sega game that was released in 1999, will probably make you wince due to the poor graphics and absurd storyline. In [...]
This is a screenshot of my current desktop. I exported a snapshot from the ReSharper Default Keymap pdf and set it as my desktop background. I got the idea from Jean-Paul Boodhoo when I asked him how he had become so proficient at using ReSharper.
I presented a session on ReSharper at the Kansas City Day of Dot Net conference this last Saturday. Kudos to Lee Brandt for organizing the event, which seemed to be a big success based on the attendance and the number of interesting topics being presented. A few attendees requested that I post the slide deck, [...]
I’ve been using ReSharper for over a year, but it recently occurred to me that I’m still only using about 1/4 of the functionality. Although there are a plethora of cool, productivity-enhancing features in ReSharper, there definitely aren’t a year’s worth of things to learn. In fact, I’m pretty sure that I picked up most [...]
I recently read an thought provoking article by Nicholas Carr, entitled Is Google Making Us Stupid? In the article, Nicholas describes a phenomenon that I have observed happening in myself over the last few years. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, [...]
In my last post I mentioned that I had recently decided that it was time to overhaul my approach to managing tasks. The changes I implemented were mostly inspired by a book by David Allen called Getting Things Done and I have been extremely pleased with the results so far. As promised, here are some [...]
I’ve always been somewhat prone to procrastination, especially in my personal life, but I’ve watched with growing trepidation as my task list has slowly grown out of control over the last several months. Part of this trend is due to being a new parent. I expected that having a newborn would consume the majority of [...]
I firmly believe that the answer to this question is…yes. A Little Background (a.k.a. My Hermit Roots) – Like most geeks, I’m an introverted fellow by nature. I’ve never had trouble mustering the requisite polish when it came to interacting with clients and executives on the job, but when given a choice I would always [...]
I recently came across an excellent blog post via Dzone from Ben Watson called 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Developers. He lists humility, love of learning, detail-orientedness, adaptability, and passion as the most important traits that a developer can have in order to be effective at their job and provides some well written insight into [...]
