What do you do in your spare time?
February 6, 2009 at 10:28 pmA post at the Canadian Developer Connection blog last week caught my eye. Joey deVilla posted about something he had read at the Harvard Business blog related to interview questions. In both posts you learn about Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who safely made an emergency landing in the Hudson river last month. What [...]
Tags: development, interviews, outliers, passion, resume, success, workMore on co-working
September 16, 2008 at 10:03 pmA couple weeks ago I posted about WorkSpace in Vancouver, and suggested it would be good to have something similar in Edmonton. Clearly I’m not the only one, as there were quite a few comments on both that post and Twitter. Cam posted a link to Edmonton’s Beans and Boardrooms, which while not quite [...]
Tags: citizen space, coworking, edmonton, productivity, shared workspaces, the hub, work, workspaceEdmonton could use a place like WorkSpace
September 4, 2008 at 11:04 pmA few years ago I started reading about shared workspaces. In particular, I was interested in what Boris Mann started calling The Innovation Commons – a place for “creatives” to gather and feed off one another. These are physical places, with tables and chairs and Internet connections. They are perfect for programmers, designers, mobile workers, [...]
Tags: edmonton, entrepreneurship, innovation commons, productivity, shared workspaces, vancouver, work, workspacePros and cons of telecommuting
August 9, 2008 at 11:23 pm The company I work for, Questionmark, is a big believer in telecommuting. As a result, I work from home usually two days a week. We were talking about it in the office this week, and this article in the New York Times made me think about it again recently:
Gasoline has become the new workplace [...]
Why the Facebook ban will be lifted within two years
May 4, 2007 at 11:33 amAccording to the Globe and Mail, government employees in Ontario have been banned from accessing Facebook. Kristen at Mashable points out that YouTube, online poker, and various other sites are also banned. And Mark Evans points to this story about TD Bank banning Facebook during business hours. There are undoubtedly many other major organizations that [...]
Tags: facebook, government, ontario, productivity, td bank, workSimple advice for acting on your software ideas
November 4, 2006 at 6:50 pmJustice decided to play the “hypothetical situation” game today, with a post asking what you should do if a great idea hits you. I started out writing a comment, but it got ridiculously long, so here’s a post instead. First, I’ll answer the questions Justice included in his post, then I’ll suggest some of my [...]
Tags: advice, business, ideas, life, programming, software, workOff to California
November 10, 2005 at 12:09 pmIt used to be that an all-nighter was a rare event, something that only happened once in a while and only when absolutely necessary. Lately though it seems like every night is an all-nighter! Dickson and I have been working like crazy lately, but I think it will all be worth it. I guess we’ll [...]
Tags: california, Paramagnus, portable media expo, sleep, travel, work
