As a developer in the fast paced world of IT, one always has to remember that to be a successful developer you must make sure you spend time living life out of the office. Most developers love spending time on computers working through difficult ideas and trying out new technologies. This is a great asset to have in the IT industry that is constantly evolving and changing. Unfortunately all to often people in the IT industry, and developers in particular forget how important life outside of work is to their overall health and productivity at the office. If you work twelve hours a day instead of ten hours a day, you’re not necessarily getting anymore work done. You may also be unbalancing your life by spending too much time at the office. Instead of spending all your extra time at the office, find the happy balance between life and work. If you’re happy in life, your work will be of better quality and you will be more efficient at the office as you won’t be burning yourself out. Often scaling back the overtime a little bit will allow you to get more work done in less time. Your employer is going to notice that you’re happier at the office. You’re working smarter, more efficiently and spending more time with friends and family. Keeping life and work balanced can go along way to ensuring you’re not burning yourself out every couple of months or years.
It’s a win-win situation.
from Lifehacker: “It’s known that most spam (particularly malware such as keyloggers) originates overseas (Estonia, Moldavia, China, Poland, etc.) By blocking email from most of the undeveloped world, I’ve successfully reduced spam by 95 percent in the past year. In Outlook, click Actions > Junk E-Mail > Junk E-Mail Options. Click the International tab, then the Blocked Top-Level Domain List button. Now select the countries you wish to block.”
Very handy little tip.
Shawn Adamsson
One of the original three founders of rtraction, Shawn describes his role as being a "cat herder". He ensures all of the work is done on time, on budget and spends a lot of his time facilitating the dialogue between clients, coders and the creatives. Shawn’s approach to life is based on the belief that it doesn't matter what you're doing if you enjoy the company of the people you are doing it with.
This video has been circulating for some time online. It’s amazing and everyone should have a quick look at this video to see what Web2.0 means to us.
The Machine is Us/ing Us
You can download a high quality version at: http://www.mediafire.com/?6duzg3zioyd
Some terminology used in the video:
AJAX= Asynchronous Javascript and XML
BLOG= an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page;
An unexpected error in Visual Studio 2005:
Could not load file or assembly ‘App_Web_*******, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
To resolve this problem make a change to the file initiating the error, then save the file. For example, add a several characters – save – remove the characters and save again. Now when you refresh the page everything should work properly.
Unfortunately this error seems to occur for no known reason.
Despite the fact that there are many excellent WYSIWYG HTML editors on the market, when designing the layout of a website to show a client a pixel perfect comp designed in Adobe Photoshop is still one of the best ways to go. One limitation of Photoshop as a layout tool has always been the fact that scaling an image in a layout is a “destructive” editing process – once you scale it down you lose image data and scaling it back up again leaves you with a low quality image. Not anymore – enter the Smart Object.
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Shawn Adamsson
One of the original three founders of rtraction, Shawn describes his role as being a "cat herder". He ensures all of the work is done on time, on budget and spends a lot of his time facilitating the dialogue between clients, coders and the creatives. Shawn’s approach to life is based on the belief that it doesn't matter what you're doing if you enjoy the company of the people you are doing it with.
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