Today I used The Pomodoro Technique at work and for the first time. I had heard of the technique before, as well as the Pragmatic Programmer book Pomodoro Technique Illustrated. Thanks to fellow geek Rachel Ober I was made aware of the free Pomodoro book, which I promply downloaded into the Books folder of my [...]
In an effort to prepare myself for potentially adding some Maven-based projects to our AntHill Pro system at work I grabbed the Apache Maven 2 Reference Card from Refcardz. It was a good overview but didn’t include some of the basics, like creating a basic project. Maven in 5 Minutes on the Maven web site [...]
I’ve always had a passing interest in electronics but the most electronic work I’ve ever really done was fixing the cracked solder of an input of a multitrack recorder I had when I was in high school. Other than when I used to build my own computers, I haven’t done much else. Recently my friend [...]
This Saturday will make it 14 weeks since I made a fool out of myself in front of a bunch of ten year old kids. Today I went back to the “ankle doctor” after 4 weeks of physical therapy. The last few weeks have been pretty good. I’m getting flexibility back in my ankle, I’ve [...]
