• Posts Tagged ‘Productivity’

    SSD, Visual Studio and improving developer productivity

    by  • February 27, 2010 • 1 Comment

    After reading lots of reviews, articles and watching a few youtube videos comparing Solid State Drives to Hard Disk Drives, I was unsure that’d see a beneficial improvement in my day-to-day developer tools of Visual Studio, such as building and spinning up desktop and web applications. I was unsure because there is a consensus of [...]

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    Why are software developers so bad at estimating time?

    by  • January 11, 2009 • 1 Comment

    In order to answer this question, we need to understand the term “flow”. From Peopleware: During single-minded work time, people are ideally in a state that psychologists call flow. Flow is a condition of deep, nearly meditative involvement. In this state, there is a gentle sense of euphoria, and one is largely unaware of the [...]

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