When Penguins Can Fly…

Category: Organization

  • Harnessing Chaos: A Framework for Team Management

    Programming is a misunderstood art. Unfortunately many commercial ventures treat programming like a science and managers treat programmers as engineers. Engineers build things based on repeatable technologies and designs. Programmers craft code, a process more akin to the unpredictable and unrepeatable production of art like writing. Companies get in trouble when they try to apply…

  • Open Source Palm-Desktop Groupware

    I recently discovered the comfort of using groupware, to organize all my communication and email needs. I never used a groupware application before, so maybe I am just realizing the potential of such software. But I am getting ahead of myself. I commute to university the majority of the time. This means 3-4 hours on…

  • KPilot Bugginess Fixed

    Success! I need to download and install a newer version of kpilot (fortunately in a Ubuntu deb). Now everything works. Except the Palm email, but that I can look at another day. Bug 66313

  • Kontacts, Palms & Course Juggling

    Greetings again! 6 days into a brand new year 2007, and I am starting to feel the ominous feeling of stress. Without getting into details, things are not working out as planned, backup plans seem to backfire and a tense atmosphere has enveloped my personal life. Fortunately I have 359 days left to make up.…

  • Task Logs – Managing Fragmented Time

    As promised last week, an update to my self-experiment. After a week of battle testing, consulting with Lina (my university counsellor) and observing myself, I can report success in with my self-experiment. But first, lets backtrack to the “theory” behind my idea. Last Friday, I came up with an idea to deal with creating continuous…

  • Self-Experiment: Fast Personal Context Switching

    Time for a self-experiment, where I get to play the part of the guinea pig. And you get to observe the final results. Speaking of time, this university semester I felt rushed and busy like never before. I found myself with six assignments/exercises a week, and in a constant lack of time. In response I…