Last week Nicolas Leroux and I attended the JavaPolis 2006 conference in Antwerp, Belgium. It was a fantastic conference for us, not because there were better talks than last year, but because we met so many interesting people.
I just worked out how to use AppleScript to create recurring daily to do items in Apple iCal.
I'd like to tell you about the Urban Country Club, but I am not sure if I can. It is an invite only network club in Rotterdam, where members can invite one new member, but only if they don't know them. Or something like that. That said, membership can't be too exclusive as they let me in. Perhaps they needed a token IT company as the rest of the people are very creative, coming from the arts, film, madvertising and the like.
Ernst & Young Indirect Tax selected Lunatech to design and build a new online tax advice product. In the first phase, Lunatech quickly developed a working proof-of-concept prototype to validate the project without requiring Ernst & Young to first commit to a large investment. Following this initial success, we then proceeded to develop the complete product.
In The Seven Habits For Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey says some useful things about task management (habits 1-3), but obscures it in excruciatingly tacky language. The ideas are fairly straightforward, and boil down to four 'generations of task management': task lists, scheduling, prioritised tasks, and urgent versus important tasks - the quadrant model. The interesting part concerns what you should be doing in the first place - why should even have a list of tasks, and how you know what is important to you.
Software developers' use of books varies widely, which is no surprise, but many programmers never read books of any kind. This is a mistake, because there are books we should all read: a good book is still the best way to quickly get a coherent detailed explanation of a complex topic, and no web site comes close to the books on this page.
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