Archive for the “Productivity” category
GMail IMAP, Apple Mail and iPhone
by jpreardon on November 21, 2007
GMail’s IMAP support has made a lot of people happy. I’m one of those happy people. I’m even happier now that I’ve configured Apple Mail and my iPhone by following this How-to on Proper Gmail IMAP. This short guide picks (…)
Favorite Mac Applications
by jpreardon on October 29, 2007
Now that Leopard has been released, I’m going to order a new Macbook. Sorry PowerBook G4, you’ve served me well for many years, but its time for an upgrade. As part of the upgrade, I took a quick inventory of (…)
Evidence Based Scheduling
by jpreardon on October 26, 2007
Joel Spolsky explains Evidence Based Scheduling (EBS), in detail, at Joel on Software. EBS, which is included in the latest version of Fogbugz, predicts ship dates based on individual developers’ historical accuracy in making estimates. Nice.
GMail Supports IMAP
by jpreardon on October 24, 2007
If you like GMail, but want to use a different mail client from time to time, you’ll be happy to know that GMail has added IMAP support. To get started, just enable IMAP in your GMail settings and follow the (…)
Rails and SVN
by jpreardon on September 15, 2007
Writing code without using version control is the equivalent of swinging on a trapeze without a net. Sure, if you execute each move flawlessly, you’ll be fine. But, one wrong move and you’ll fall to your death. Okay, coding mistakes (…)
Tracking Time Off the Easy Way
by jpreardon on September 11, 2007
Dealing with a group of people’s time off can be a headache. Spread that group across several locations and that headache quickly turns into a migraine. There are hundreds of applications to help with this which range from the very (…)
Fog Creek Open House
by jpreardon on July 12, 2007
Fog Creek Software has an open house every year in their beautiful offices. But, even though I used to work right across the street, I missed it every year. This year will be different, I’m actually going to make it (…)
Amazon -> Public Library Bookmarklet
by jpreardon on July 10, 2007
There’s a place that has many, many books. You can take these books for free so long as you agree to bring them back. Yes, this place is your local library. Even though these libraries are everywhere and the price (…)
Wireless Bunny
by jpreardon on July 7, 2007
How did I miss this? I should have been well aware of this Nabaztag bunny last year. I will immediately adjust my RSS feeds so I’m get the appropriate level of gadget news and this sort of thing doesn’t happen (…)
Quicksilver: Keeping Hands on Keyboards
by jpreardon on July 5, 2007
The mouse and other pointing devices are great innovations for personal computing. Excessive use, however, can really slow you down. Since I’m not a fan of deceleration, I’ve been loving Quicksilver lately. Other Quicksilver users I’ve talked to share the (…)