Tag Archive for work

A Year in Code

This is the breakdown of svn commits by our team for 2011. Awesome year, especially on Tuesdays at 4PM and Wednesdays at 6PM

Chart courtesy of Fisheye

Transferable Skills

“If you’re 100 percent qualified, you’re overqualified.” ~ Lisa Panarello

So simple, and so true.

This Tech Bubble Is Different – BusinessWeek

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” he says. “That sucks.” ~ Jeff Hammerbacher

Good perspective on where we stand today with internet-based businesses compared to where we were, and where we might end up. I disagree with the soundbite that I chose to clip, because I think the ad technology industry is at the core of internet innovation for a reason.

Recurring meetings in Outlook for Mac

I made the switch to OS X in 2009, after years on Windows. 3 months ago, I made a slight boomerang back and dropped Mail.app for Outlook for Mac, because I was sick of the lack of formatting and a few other nuances that made it difficult to work in an Exchange-based company. Today was the first time I needed to create a recurring event in the new Outlook. Here’s a little recap of my experience.

First, I created an event, opened up the Recurrence menu, and chose the “Custom…” option.

Customrecur

This presented me with 4 options: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly.

Recuroptions

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Don’t compromise the process

The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.

~Yvon Chouinard from the film 180 South°: Conquerors of the Useless

Great documentary about a couple of guys trying to create their own version of the now infamous 1968 trip of Yvon Chouinard (founder of Patagonia) and Doug Tompkins (founder of The North Face). Worth a watch.

Alex Payne ??? Don’t Be A Hero

Nobody can pull heroic hours for long. Heroes get sick. They get burnt out. Eventually, the hero resents the rest of the team for not pulling their weight, and rightly so: if your team is relying on a hero, they???re not doing their jobs.

Not a new post, but good perspective on the both-end-candle-burners amongst us.

Panic Blog ?? The Panic Status Board

Great implementation of a status board. I’d buy this.