Setting up a productive development day
Setting up your day to be productive is the sort of thing that should be straightforward, but isn’t always. I…
Using IntelliJ Sequence Diagram Plugin productively
A useful combo for using the IntelliJ Sequence Diagram plugin to generate sequence diagrams and then handing off to an…
Keeping metadata out of your IntelliJ projects
This annoyed me enough that I wanted to write an article about it. Mostly it’s because I wanted to help…
Record meetings to supersize your productivity
Like many of us, I’ve been working from home extensively these last few months. We’ve been using Microsoft Teams to…
Productivity Course on Listenable
The last few weeks I haven’t been as as active as I’d like on this blog due to an interesting…
Debugging Localstack running in Docker
Recently I was using AWS LocalStack (which uses Python and Docker) to run various tests against DynamoDB. I was running…
Don’t let Slack kill your productivity
Most recently I have found my role almost being one of a mini-project manager. I’m helping out with an uplift…
Learning Tests for AWS
I wrote an article on how to use the Java SDK with DynamoDB this month. By having a way of…
Mental Models
I just finished reading an excellent article on mental models here. There are so many models that we could look…
Make it Stick – Michael Young Case Study
From my previous article you may have seen that I have got a lot of value out of ‘Make it…