Today I worked out how to use Things as a Kanban system. The trick is to use the "Focus" top-level item on the sidebar properly. A lot of my tasks had built up in the "Next" folder. I moved all those tasks from "Next" into the "Someday" folder. Then I only move into the "Next" folder the stuff I'm planning to work on that day. The task I'm currently working on I move into the "Today" folder.
Productivity for 2013-05-30
Not a hugely productive day today, unfortunately. Although since I have been monitoring my productivity hourly, I have been way more productive than normal, which is interesting.
This morning I was planning to write a cron job to save my daily productivity totals to a database, but I realised that I actually have all the information in my Mac OS/X calendar anyway, and can just retrieve the data there.
Productivity for 29th May, 2013
I coded up a script to output a chart of what my productivity looks like for the day. It is based on my Pomodoro software that logs all the time-boxes to my calendar on Mac OS/X. My program extracts all the information and constructs a nice looking chart. The idea is that I track what things are making me more productive.
You can find the script over in my GitHub repository
callistevents now on GitHub
I wrote a small command-line program this morning called callistevents (from Calendar List Events). It is a Mac OS/X program that lists all the events in a specific calendar between 2 dates.
Awesome Code Commenting
The comments in this JavaScript file by Lunametrics are hysterical. To give you a taste; here is the start of the file:
//To Track Thy Youtube Upon Google Analytics
//Regardless the number of Players upon thy stage
//Revised and Revisioned to Version 2.1
//Within the March of Two Thousand and Thirteen
Renaming XCode Projects
It turns out that renaming XCode projects is easy! This StackOverflow thread showed me the trick. All you need to do is double-click slowly on the Project Name in the project hierarchy tree. This allows you to change the name. You then get a dialog showing the refactoring of everything related to the new project name.
An Unexpected Detour
Yesterday we were supposed to fly back to London from Denmark. Unfortunately our flight was cancelled. We found out about it when we arrived at the airport, but couldn't check in. There was a massive queue of people waiting to try and rebook a flight or get a refund. I jumped on to my iPhone and changed flights for one the next day (tonight). I also investigated hotels. We managed to book The Renaissance hotel in Malmo, Sweden for the night. We also organised a late checkout, so it was quite a pleasant day today. Having O2 International Roaming was fantastic. It's one of the big pains of travelling; not having data on your phone when you need it most.
Ale's Stones
We drove out to the South East of Sweden until we found the largest standing stones in this region. They are called Ale's Stones
Disas Ting
Part of a stone square - standing stones called "Disas Ting" (Disa's Thing in English). In southern Sweden.
Last day of Unite Nordic
Yesterday was the last day of Unite Nordic. The highlights of the conference for me were: