Software engineering and personal development
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Redmine is a flexible project management web application that is open source, written in Ruby on Rails. If you need to start using it for your own projects, then chances are you need to deploy it to a server. In this article, you can see how to deploy the current latest stable version of Redmine to Heroku, as it sometimes can be a bit problematic. Continue reading
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The number of apps that claim to increase your level of productivity is constantly in the rise. Most of them tend to promote themselves as tools that can help you capture the tasks that you need to do. However, they do not either emphasize nor seem to promote another important factor: Keeping a did-it list, about the history of finished tasks. This might sound a bit weird and unheard, but it is something very helpful that can have a considerable impact on the levels of productivity. Continue reading
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Charles M. Schwab, who used to be one of the richest man in the planet, asked the productivity consultant Ivy Lee for some advice that would help his employees increase their work efficiency. The advice he gave to the executives turned out to be something very valuable for which Schwab later paid Lee a sum that is now worth 400,000 dollars. Continue reading
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When you start doing something, it is usually easier to continue working on it than abandoning it. We might find it very difficult to start, because the project that we intend to work on is a bit scary, or that we are overwhelmed from the amount of work that we ought to do. A solution to these types of cases can be starting a timer and tricking yourself into thinking that you will work simply for a short amount of time. Continue reading
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A very common theme that I have seen is that we usually try to underestimate the actual time that it is necessary for us to finish the tasks that we want to do. We underestimate the task, seeing it easier than it actually is, or overestimating ourselves, thinking that we are capable of finishing this task pretty fast. There is another factor that can make things take a longer period time to get accomplished than we initially anticipated: the unexpected events that might occur. Continue reading
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We have a lot of implanted daily routines that we consciously or unconsciously do at a certain time like brushing teeth immediately when we wake up, drinking a tea or a coffee when we get to work, or going to the bathroom before going to bed. This does not only free up our mind and conserves a lot of mental energy from having to always decide when we should do them, but it also creates for us opportunities to think about solving our problems, coming up with creative ideas, or reflecting about our actions. Yet there are other things that we need to do them repeatedly that we simply do not do them at a consistent time, because we do not have the resolve to set a fixed schedule about them. Continue reading
There are just a lot of things that you have to do and there does not seem to be available time to finish everything. Whenever you finish something, other things simply show up and this iteration keeps repeating endlessly. You are simply forced to choose a few things from an infinite list that are waiting and attracting your attention. Continue reading
If you go to a restaurant and order a meal, you are automatically given the right to get as much salt as possible for free. However, just because it is free, you do not end up putting a lot of salt into your meal, as it will decrease its taste. Similarly, you should not do a lot of things just for the sake of your capabilities of doing them.© 2024 Fatos Morina
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