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This is too cool: Onlife looks at what you do in several programs (Safari / Firefox, Mail, iChat, iTunes) and stores all kinds of information about the interaction. You can then tag it (or leave it) and search for it. For example, I’m installing PostgreSQL on my Mac and I found some info on the Apple Developer Connection website about this. If I need this page again, later, I can search for “Postgres” and “I looked at it longer than 2 minutes” and “Safari” ...

Just a collection of links to paper based organization systems: Pocket Mod: Flash based creator for small pocket agendas. Drag and drop layouts, print, fold: ready PigDogPDA: Use a Moleskin notebook for your GTD processing. Looks like it could actually work Moleskin Notebooks: From 43Folders -tips and tricks More Moleskin stuff: also from 43Folder Technorati Tags: arbeitstechnik, kreativ, gtd, planning, reduce, zeitmanangement

Somewhat of an add-on to the post “Lotus Notes is not agile”. The project I’m working on with the good folks of sourcepole, is a network monitoring tool. We are using Ruby on Rails to build a web frontend to some Ruby Network monitoring-fu. The network topology is stored in a database, and in our first delivery we got the fundamental database design wrong. So I spent half a day thinking about a new database model and spent the remainder of the day to build a quick spike to test if the new database model would be able to sustain the requirements. This remaining day was spent over the weekend with much cursing and muttering, but finally it seemed to work. ...

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Julian Robichaux has a recent article “Agile Development is not for me”. As you can guess from the title, he’s not in the agile camp: What's worse is, the "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it" mentality doesn't take into account that there's a certain kind of butterfly effect with software design. A tiny change in architecture at the beginning can have huge impacts later on (for better or worse). Likewise, having to make a seemingly tiny change to core functionality or design later on down the road can be a major undertaking. I have been doing agile development for the last couple of years with good results and experiences, both for me and my customers. There is one big caveat though: You will need to work with a technology that supports agile processes. ...

What a nice little program! Active Timer keeps track of where you spend your time, while working at the computer. [via TUAW] Technorati Tags: mac, zeitmanangement