New Stickers!
Locate those Missing Puts!
Do you co workers sometimes forget to remove their #puts; or do you sometimes forget where you put* yours? …
Now you can find them ;D
* Pun intended
“rake spec” with Rspec 2
This year´s Rails Rumble
As co-founders of Coworking Cologne and lightweight sponsors of this year´s Rails Rumble we´re happy to announce that Coworking Cologne opens its doors for Rumble Rails Rumble teams during the 2010 Rails weekend from October 16th-18th and offers free work spaces to use during the 48 hour competition. The competition will begin Saturday, October 16th at 2am (MEZ) and continue until Monday, October 18th at 01:59am.
If your team is looking for a space to work on your app and hang with other Rumblers feel free to join us at Coworking Cologne just give us a call or contact at team@railslove.com.
For more information about the space check out coworkingcologne.de.
Working The Pomodoro Way
The last two weeks I have been practising the Pomodoro Technique.
The Pomodoro Technique was created by Francesco Cirillo 18 years ago.
The basic idea is to:
- Choose a task to work on.
- Set the Pomodoro to 25minutes.
- Work on you task.
- When the timer rings, take a short break (I take 5 minute breaks)
- Repeat
Every 4 rounds take a longer break (I take 15 minutes).
There is a great e-book for you enjoyment.
While working the Pomodoro Technique I have found that I am able to get into “the zone” a lot quicker.
My advice:
- Be as strict as possible with the structure.
- Make sure you have a task before you start. Dont just float into a cycle.
- If you’re on OSX, I recommend this app. It is also open source!
- Have a drink and a snack, like dried fruits, next to you. If you become thirsty or slightly peckish, it won’t interfere with your current cycle
If you have any tips, post them below.
Edit:
In the comments Paule asked for suggestions of things to do in the 5 minute breaks.
The idea of the break is to allow you to disconnect from your work. The book mentions that this “allows the mind assimilate what’s been learned in the last 25 minutes”.
So in layman terms, thats anything that doesn’t make you think too hard.
A few things that I do:
- Eat. Something that doesn’t require too much preparation, like a piece of fruit or a chocolate bar (but not too many ;) )
- Read email. I do not answer my emails. If they require a reply, I star them.
- Read Twitter.
- Read Quora.
- Talk to other Railslovers.
- Get a quick drink.
- Read a quick blog post.
- Prepare/start the washing machine
- etc…
If you find yourself thinking “fuck! Quick! What should I do?”. It may be worth writing a list of things that you can do and pick one.