February 2007
Monthly Archive
Posted by Steve on 23 Feb 2007 5:24 am. Filed under
Technical ,
Programming ,
software development.
Found this website while reading a news feed somewhere. It’s packed solid of all kinds of resources for web development. Everything from a list of forums, code libraries, tutorials, free open source web templates, etc.
http://www.degreetutor.com/library/career-starter/115-secrets
One of the best finds on this page is a page containing Cheat-Sheets for various programming languages:
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/455.cfm
Posted by Steve on 8 Feb 2007 7:10 pm. Filed under
Technical.
When I have spare time, I work on an object layer around the Amazon Web Services API, that I write in PHP. I want to be able to just instantiate an object like:
$books = new AmazItemSearch("search term", "browse node", etc.. )
And then loop through $books->itemArray to display the books (or anything from Amazon)
But when I finally got around to adding support for Amazon Wishlists into my object library, and then started testing it, I noticed that I was seeing only about half of the Wishlists returned, or so.
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Posted by Steve on 2 Feb 2007 5:05 pm. Filed under
Psychology ,
Technical ,
Organizational ,
Mind ,
Programming.
Most of the articles I see about productivity list a lot of mundane type of tips, such as de-clutter your working space, or make a list the night before (which still can be helpful)
Game Producer’s blog entry includes excellent tips that really appeal to your emotional faculties, which to me is the deciding factor behind what you choose to do, among all of the possible things that you face.
Favorite one might be: #6 - Remind yourself about the feeling that motivated you
In short, it’s about recalling the last time you successfully completed or accomplished something, and recalling the full force of that feeling in the NOW moment which will drive your motivation without having to use willpower to do that thing.