December 9, 2007 at 8:32 pm
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My friend Rags wrote about work-life balance lately. He writes about challenges we have to face in current world as professionals:
If I regularly take time off after work to just “chill out and relax”, I realize I’m being left behind in the rat-race while everyone else is constantly moving forward.
As we live in society of ubiquitous flow of information and changing all the time trends and opinions but we have got limited time we are bound to make constant decisions: what news do we follow, which blogs and books do we read, which technology we are going to try and spend our precious time with. We could try to find an analogy with finance sector: we have a limited resources, in our case it is time, and we have to invest this in the best way to get the best result. To quantify this result can be difficult as it is not as obvious what to take into account: career progress, money we earn, being well rounded and conscious professional or maybe the degree we influence and interact with our closer or farther professional neighborhood?
Did I forget to mention private life?
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November 30, 2007 at 6:49 pm
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After reading last entry on David’s James blog about reasons for not blogging enough I started to think about my own reasons for doing exactly the same thing.
User friendliness of the blog content management is important but I don’t think that is my excuse. What it is then?
I am not going to mention the natural human laziness (I’ve just done it). It could be this as well but in my case I can see two things on my way to have more often updated blog:
- perfectionism (sic!)
- type of the content I decided to write about
Perfectionism because it stops me from posting “quick and dirty” posts. Very often instead of writing maybe bit rough entry but actually writing it I wait for a bit of time when I can “do it properly”. And obviously it rarely happens.
Type of the content because I decided to post mainly solutions to common software development problems as a favour to other as I often find answers for my questions in other’s people blogs. But this type of content is pretty time consuming to create. I might to change it as I am not to be honest as excited about doing that.
So… That’s my list of excuses. What’s yours?
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September 27, 2006 at 9:48 am
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The last blog on secreet geek describes interesting idea of Duplicate Driven Programming. I think it was invented and used by big corporations long time ago. Unintentionally.
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September 23, 2006 at 12:28 am
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I recently came across Scott Hickey’s article in IBM DeveloperWorks comparing writing code in Java and Groovy. Simply code written in Groovy has simplified syntax comparing to what we are used to. Hence is less noisy, easier to read and understand. Isn’t it great to focus on solving a problem than on typing curly brackets all the time? What I just realized is that we are boxed by our behaviour, we are get actually used to type the brackets, for loops with index, iterator. Type, type, type… And we think that’s the way software development should look like. Thank’s to good IDEs helping us to generate that noise we are not frustrated completely yet. In Java 5 we have got already some goodies like simplified loops, autoboxing, generics. That is a good change I believe. And I don’t care that generics can have bad influence on performance (see an article on TSS). Coming back to Groovy I will try to have a look how can I incorporate it to my current development behaviour. I’ve read an article about using Groovy for unit testing of java code. Sounds promising to me.
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