Pomodoro and Bulleted Lists

Productivity and moving away from App Todo Lists

I have tried them all, every new app or system and always digital. Some better than others and some work well but do not sync across devices or lose data. And I always have the feeling that an analogue (paper!) system might suit me better.

At the very least it would not run out of battery and my handwriting since I became a programmer would put a doctor to shame.

So after a stressfull week leaving me behind with goals and feeling pressured with everthing I decided to utilise the flow mentioned in one of the posts I am about to link to that will help me get stuff done and feel good about it.

The two methods essentially are using the flow that the pomodoro technique will give me

http://lifehacker.com/the-bullet-journal-productivity-method-empowers-your-pa–1169313228

And the second here is how to set up a paper todo and project management list on paper

https://medium.com/life-learning/how-to-work–40-hours-in–16–7-the-simple-technique-that-gave-me-my-life-back–8f98ec011862#.crp5szwdq

November 26, 2015 at 05:38PM

i wrote a blog post about responsive logo design. http://ift.tt/1NwmJ27
http://ift.tt/1ELo697

i wrote a blog post about responsive logo design. http://ift.tt/1NwmJ27

Solrevdev Tech Radar http://ift.tt/1ELo697

Responsive Logos

Responsive Design and Responsive Logos are important right now. Google likes mobile friendly sites and me personally I probably browse more websites on a mobile or tablet than I do on a laptop or desktop hooked up to one or more large monitors. 

I haven't won this battle personally yet proof being that my own blog (Google blogger based) http://solrevdev.com doesn't handle this too well by the fact I don't have a logo as such and it has too many words and therefore doesn't respond! 

So not being a designer it's something I am trying to learn and adapt to even though i could shield myself away as being a "DevOps" guy or a "Developer".

But I've always cared about the front end .The front end is the application for the user not the super fast IOC container or funky ORM framework being used.

So with that in mind I'll try and find things on the web to help websites snap and look right when "responding" to device screen real estate.

Here is the first useful link but I shall probably find an expert on 

https://uk.fiverr.com to do this for me :) 

That said here is a good link to get me started:

http://justcreative.com/2015/11/19/the-problem-of-the-logo-in-a-responsive-design-world/

Dropbox Paper Invite

So it's been a while since I've posted here. I've been busy looking after family and trying to get back into boxing and health recently. 

Anyway what's shiny? 

Dropbox have given me access to the beta program Dropbox Paper. 

So hold tight for a review soon. I'll try and do a better review than my last techie review which i think was an Amazon AWS review. 

Mac OSX Terminal Permissions Issues

So with Node Package Manager, HomeBrew, PIP and various other package managers that throw errors on my aging development Mac the following rightly or wrongly fixes most if not all of the issues.

I am posting here to save me searching every day for the syntax and answer

sudo chown -R :admin /usr/local

Numi ‒ Beautiful calculator app for Mac

I use Soulver on the Mac/iOS to do natural language style calculations on my finances and software startup ideas and bootstrapping costs but there is a new similar application that's worth having a look at and that's Numi - The beautiful calculator app for Mac 

http://numi.io/

Amazon Web Services goes down, taking Netflix, Reddit, Pocket and more with it

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Amazon Web Services goes down, taking Netflix, Reddit, Pocket and more with it
// The Next Web - International technology news, business & culture


If you're having trouble accessing several parts of the Web today, it's because Amazon Web Services is having a bit of a glitch this morning. A server issue in Virginia is affecting most of the northeast, killing the infrastructure for many popular products and services including Netflix, Product Hunt, Medium, SocialFlow, Buffer, GroupMe, Pocket, Viber Amazon Echo and more. The outage occurred around 6 AM ET. Amazon DynamoDB goes down. Takes down Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Nest, Medium, Mediacom, IMDB, and 21 other AWS services. Ouch. — Adrian Jimenez (@AdrianJimenez) September 20, 2015 At The Next Web, we use SocialFlow as our tool…

This story continues at The Next Web

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3 Small Discipline Habits You Can Train

3 Small Discipline Habits You Can Train
// Zen Habits

By Leo Babauta

While I'm not a fan of trying to be disciplined every moment of the day, there's no doubt most of us could use a little more discipline in our lives.
We procrastinate, we waste time with online distractions, we go an entire day without getting done what we really wanted to get done.
How do we overcome this?
With training. Practice small, effective habits, and practice some more. Don't expect yourself to be perfect at skills if you don't repeatedly, deliberately practice.
If you want to get good at these skills, don't worry about not being motivated. Just enjoy the joy of practicing something that you can get good at. It's amazing when you're learning something new, and that wonderful feeling is what can motivate you.
What should you practice? Three simple skills that can be turned into habits with repeated practice.

The 3 Small Discipline Habits

The habits that work for me are all about talking to myself:

1. Tell yourself, "This is what I'm going to do next.". Instead of having a long to-do list of things you want to do today, have just one thing you want to do right now. Instead of saying you're going to do this important task sometime, say you're going to do it right now. Instead of allowing yourself to randomly open websites that give you distraction, deliberately figure out what you want to work on next. Pick one thing. It doesn't matter what it is, but try for things that are important in your life.
2. Ask yourself, "What is the smallest step I can do?". Most of us look at something on our (mental or digital or paper) list and subconsciously think, "That's too hard." So we put it off. But that's because we're thinking about an entire project, which has many tasks. You can't do a project right now, you can only do a task. Instead of saying, "I'm going to write that paper that's due," you should say, "I'm going to write 3 things in the outline of the paper." If the smallest task stills seems too hard, say you're just going to do 5 minutes of that small task right now. Or just two minutes. Make it ridiculously easy.
3. Ask yourself, "What is stopping me from focusing on that small step?. Even if you figured out a task to focus on, and you've broken it into the smallest step, there will still be distractions or resistance. If you're not immediately doing the smallest step of the next task, ask yourself why. What's stopping you? Can you resolve this issue, close all browser tabs, shut off your phone, ask co-workers or roommates or family members to give you 30 minutes of focused time? Can you ask for help, get some accountability? The easiest solution is usually to close all distractions. Then get moving on the smallest step.

Once you've done that, repeat this process two more times, taking a few minutes' break between each round. Then take 20 minutes off as a reward. That's your training session. If you can do several training sessions a day, you'll get good at this in no time. And as you get good, the cost of doing anything will begin to seem miniscule.

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Raising money for cancer research UK by going booze free for a month.

So I have joined the #dryathalon movement where people give up booze for a month and raise money that goes to cancer research UK.

I'm posting this as my own father died of cancer and also suffered from cirrhosis of the liver due to alcohol so it has personal meaning to me but also I am trying to lose weight for health reasons and to get fitter for my boxing training where I am aiming to take part in some white collar boxing again for charity. 

I would appreciate any donations you can afford. If not why not do something similar yourselves.

Do some good and get healthy at the same time.

Thanks for your time.

Cheers!
+John Smith

#boxing #fitness #cancerresearch

Windows 10 will not run on this PC" error due to the issue with Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM)

Not sure if I will upgrade for free yet but here is the article and downloads on how to fix the error

How to upgrade my virtual machine to Windows 10?