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Saturday, October 21, 2006
Snowboard list
After my success at getting the booklist running off del.icio.us tags I thought that it might be time to do something similar with my list of snowboard resorts. So with some quick new tag additions of "riddenat" and "torideat" along with country tags I've got a list of mountains I've boarded at, and mountains I plan to board at. I love del.icio.us tags.
Labels: del.icio.us, Development
// posted by Jane @ 10:43 AM 
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
What Teens Want - IT Conversations podcast
I listened to an excellent IT Conversations podcast this morning - What Teens Want. Taken from the Web 2.0 2005 conference, it featured a panel of teenagers answering questions on their internet habits, what sites they spent lots of time on (myspace, facebook), how they chatted with their friends (AIM mainly) and how they found music. Really interesting to hear what 17-18 year olds see as important - their prime concern seems to be what can they get for free, although at least one of them is happy to spend $50 - $60 per month on ring tones for his phone.
Labels: Development
// posted by Jane @ 9:02 AM
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Reading list now running off del.icio.us
I did some more tinkering last night, and changed the Reading page. On del.icio.us I've set up some tags to indicate things (primarily books) that I've read or am currently reading. In addition I've also got a set of articles and books to read.
I started off finding the html links and so used the object tag to reference the html.
<object data="http://del.icio.us/html/Ull/reading?tags=no&extended=body&rssbutton=no"></object>
which produces
and of course by introducing height and width tags it can be made to look a lot better
This was a good start, but I wanted to have my styling used, rather than the browser default styling. So, I had another hunt around the del.icio.us help and found a page about linkrolls which seemed to do 95% of what I wanted.
So, with a bit of javascript code
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/Ull/reading?extended?extended;bullet=%E2%80%A2"></script>
I get to display the most recent links saved to the reading tag in my list of del.icio.us bookmarks. Using this method I get to supplement my current styles with those provided through the styling. Some day I may try and change it to get the extra 5% of functionality I wanted but this is good enough for now.
This is the third incarnation of a book list, but this is by far the simplest and easiest to maintain - the original set of reviews is still active over at janeandrichard.co.uk.
I started off finding the html links and so used the object tag to reference the html.
<object data="http://del.icio.us/html/Ull/reading?tags=no&extended=body&rssbutton=no"></object>
which produces
and of course by introducing height and width tags it can be made to look a lot better
This was a good start, but I wanted to have my styling used, rather than the browser default styling. So, I had another hunt around the del.icio.us help and found a page about linkrolls which seemed to do 95% of what I wanted.
So, with a bit of javascript code
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/Ull/reading?extended?extended;bullet=%E2%80%A2"></script>
I get to display the most recent links saved to the reading tag in my list of del.icio.us bookmarks. Using this method I get to supplement my current styles with those provided through the styling. Some day I may try and change it to get the extra 5% of functionality I wanted but this is good enough for now.
This is the third incarnation of a book list, but this is by far the simplest and easiest to maintain - the original set of reviews is still active over at janeandrichard.co.uk.
Labels: del.icio.us, Development
// posted by Jane @ 7:13 PM
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Project switching affects productivity
There's an excellent article on the effect of task switching over at coding horror. As the leader of a small (4-5 people) team I spend most of my time task-switching, between doing management activities, supporting our existing products, planning future activities, reviewing designs or code with the team not to mention the odd bit of development or technical investigations that still come my way. There's little wonder that I go home most nights wondering if I've actually achieved anything at all that day. As a team we develop and maintain a large number of related products, and have recently been given assurance that our current main project focus is one of the most important to the company. And yet, I still find extra bits and pieces of work being pushed into the team to work on, "it won't take up too much time and then you can focus on the main project", because our customers (external) have been promised something, or it's really important etc. I'm planning to print this graph out, laminate it and carry it to meetings just in case the "can you just" or "I've got something that I need your team to look at" sentences begin...
Labels: Development
// posted by Jane @ 8:57 PM
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