February 2014 Archives

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The fundamental relevant question at the project level is simply this: What do I need to complete? As the next level up from actions, this horizon is the source of many of the physical things we need to do.


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Some parents take the carrot approach to homework enforcement, others the stick. This is the best carrot I’ve ever seen. Some world-class parenting skills are on display right here. This is the homework desk of Jeff Highsmith’s older son:


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Content curation has long been a dirty word for many content creators across industries in recent years, but in others respects, a powerful means of growing an organization’s reach by sharing valuable information.


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Albert Einstein offered us more than just the amazing theory of relativity and E=mc2. Through his persistence in his discoveries in science, Einstein shined a light on how each of us can do the impossible by hard work, experiencing failure, and valuing people.


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Ever since reading The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 I’ve been interested in Navy SEAL training, particularly the psychological aspects. How successful were these techniques?


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Reading a few books by samurai there was one thing I saw repeated again and again and again that surprised me. It has nothing to do with swords, fighting or strategy. Actually, quite the opposite when you think about it.


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Think about that. Your last fight happened. What did you learn (win or lose)?


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If you’re honest with yourself, there probably aren’t many events that have occurred in your life which completely changed the way you perceive your capabilities and your innate ability to defend yourself.


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This is the article to give to your boss or anyone else who doesn't have much time, but needs to know the basic usability facts. Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use.


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Somehow, when we weren't looking, productivity became cool. For stepping up its omnipresence in users’ lives through smart partnerships and acquisitions. How omnipresent? Try 200 million users saving 1 billion files every 24 hours.


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“If you want to get to my level, you will be working all the time,” she said, “this will put strain on your marriage, and your husband will leave you.” I was a lowly engineering intern at the time, she was the director of my department.


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Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in October, 2010.


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Entrepreneurs aren’t average people. The average person doesn’t hedge their bets against the odds and zig while the rest of the flock chooses to zag.


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Every line of code comes with a hidden piece of documentation. Whoever wrote line 4 of the following code snippet decided to access the clientLeft property of a DOM node for some reason, but do nothing with the result. It’s pretty mysterious.


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Who can resist software that helps you organize and work more efficiently? While many apps claim to do this, these three really deliver on their promise. Day One: One of my challenges is to find a way to create random notes and be able to retrieve them quickly.


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​ For immediate release Feb. 20, 2014   NEW YORK – Continuing to provide its advertising partners with the best platforms and most engaged audiences, Food Network has improved and redesigned FoodNetwork.com with enhanced video features and optimized mobile performance.


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In many ways, we’re all beginners in self‑defense. Street violence is chaotic and therefore, cannot be mastered in the way we master an instrument, a tool or a kata. It’s easy to become an expert in a field where changes are minimal.


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...and Make You More Valuable and Productive to Potential Employers Imagine you are either searching for a job or looking for a career change. Think about the company you'd like to work for - whether it be a start-up, a midsize company, a multi-national, etc.


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CIO — You've got all the right skills. Your resume shows a clear progression through your career, with a long list of accolades and accomplishments. You work well with others, but can excel independently.


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Researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing attack that infects home and small-office wireless routers from Linksys with self-replicating malware, most likely by exploiting a code-execution vulnerability in the device firmware. Johannes B.


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“During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we observe a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple.” Facebook might understand your romantic prospects better than you do.


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It's a cliche, but one that most smart people aspire to. Reason being, working harder is… well, harder. Working smarter requires a lot less effort, while also making you a shining diamond in the eyes of supervisor and colleague alike.


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The other day I was reading a book and I came across a little anecdote. It was about the great Athenian general Themistocles. Before the battle of Salamis, he was locked in a vigorous debate with a Spartan general about potential strategies for defeating the Persians.


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The Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal is bigger than you think.


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The first step in learning guitar is mastering the major chords. As any new player will tell you, it’s not difficult to learn where your fingers are supposed to go for each chord, the real challenge is training your finger muscles to actually hit the desired positions cleanly.


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Software development is a lot like meeting a friend for dinner. I’m serious! Every now and then I find myself sitting at a restaurant bar at 6:58 waiting for my friend to show up for our 7 o’clock reservation. All of a sudden I get a text: “Running 5 minutes late. See you soon.


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Many of you may have read a post by Terrence O’Hanlon on the LinkedIn site (www.linkedin.com) of the Association of Maintenance Professionals. A toothpaste factory had a problem. They sometimes shipped empty boxes without the tube inside.


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Day One is passionate about making software that people love to use. From creatives to lawyers, parents to photographers, there are people from all walks of life that use Day One every day to capture the important thoughts, events, and experiences in their lives.


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Update: This article is NOT a sponsored post. We received absolutely nothing from Evernote in exchange for this post and have never communicated with anyone at Evernote.


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Meet North, design and development standards to align and guide your project. It's a comprehensive guide contributed to the open source community to encourage, "a mobile-first, in-browser, system based approach to design and development."


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Every morning, Clay Morgan sends an email that has company-wide priorities for the day, things to get accomplished, and an article to read that helps set the tone for the day. In the beginning, I teased him mercilessly about it. But the truth of the matter is, we all love this ritual.


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Release Testing is high cost, low value risk management theatre Described by Elisabeth Hendrickson as originating with the misguided belief that “testers test, programmers code, and the separation of the two disciplines is important“, the traditional segregation of development and testing into


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I haven’t experienced stress for quite a long time—until recently. All of a sudden, I found myself anxious, pressured, and ruled by my to-do list which contains way too many things to accomplish. I know how it happened—it’s the way any habit takes hold.


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It's not at all uncommon to see Honda two-wheelers at a local track day event. After all, the Japanese company is the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles, and its VFR, CB and CBR line of sport bikes have become synonymous with reliable performance.


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The term IoT has seemingly sprung up out of nowhere recently. It stands for Internet of Things, and from everything I hear it is going to be big – both in the enterprise and for individuals / households.


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CIO — How can CIOs and IT executives help their teams be more productive (besides providing them with free food)? Here are the top 11 tips -- from CIOs, IT executives, productivity and leadership experts and project managers -- for getting the most out of your IT team. ? 1.


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Few cultural products so fully captured 21st-century American anxieties as Jericho.


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CIO — The now-notorious rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health insurance exchange website, healthcare.gov, brought the issue of software product failure to national attention.


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As a software developer, there are a bunch of repetitive and tedious tasks you have to do almost every day. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to automate them? Well, there is – by using the app Automator that is built right into Mac OX X.


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It is tempting to think that the declining number of subscribers at the U.S.'s biggest cable-television companies is a symptom of the industry's malaise as it slowly slides into obsolescence. Don’t buy it. The losses are accounted for in the gains by smaller and nimbler rivals. Comcast Corp.


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Because of the intercom, the idea came that it would be funny to use the intercom for what it was intended: contacting your personal assistant to get information or to give him/her a task. The only difference is that this intercom isn't connected to its other half but to the raspberry pi.


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The first time I was invited to give a keynote speech, I thought “Why would they want me? I have nothing to say.” The second time was a few months later. Same thing. What should I talk about? What’s worth listening to? Previously I had been asked by my favorite publisher to write a book.


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Closures are functions that refer to independent (free) variables. In short, variables from the parent function of the closure remain bound from the parent's scope.


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Design teams that handle user experience and user interface will know; when working on an MVP (Minimum Viable Product), we are often on tight deadlines, have limited resources, and a great need to test and iterate.


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This week’s weather fiasco in Atlanta, which stranded thousands of commuters on glassy-slick roads and gridlocked the entire metro region for the better part of 24 hours, was caused by a freak snowstorm, they say.


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Jeff Doubek presents a short time management tip that will allow you to make a better to-do list, with tasks you’ll have a harder time procrastinating with. Jeff shows examples in his day planner, and gives 2 takeaway tips for writing out your morning to-do list. Visit daytimer.


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Last year saw both a clampdown on remote working at Marissa Meyer’s Yahoo! and the publication of 37 Signals’ Remote, an occasionally breathless but largely convincing treatise on why and how to work remotely.


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This article was inspired by the work of Julien Smith & The Flinch. I share with you the struggles and lessons that I’ve learned from my own journey. We‘re all guilty.


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Now there’s a damn good chance I’m actually an idiot, but the self-respecting part of me wants to challenge that notion. When I get stuck on a task or am looking for recommendations for tools/resources/strategies/solutions/whatever, I often take to Twitter to ask for help.


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