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Refactoring - why some software changes are easy, others are hard

(From an email I sent to one of my clients regarding our software project.)

Last week we left the meeting with an open item to have [CUSTOMER_NAME] IT staff work w/ [DEVELOPER_NAME] to understand why some programming changes are easy, and some are not. More specifically, I think the question pertained to times when an application works one way in one part of the application, and then a user would like to see that same behavior in another part of the application. The question was something to the effect of "Why isn't this easy?"

By Alvin Alexander on August 5, 2011

Sometimes being tired helps me focus and concentrate

I've learned something about myself the last few weeks that maybe I didn't know before. While I don't like being tired, these last few weeks have been very trying, with long hours and hard work. The thing that I've learned is that this actually helps me to settle down, and focus on one thing at a time.

By Alvin Alexander on August 5, 2011

Gregg shorthand - Learning shorthand

In the name of being more productive I try a lot of different things, so I started teaching myself shorthand recently (Gregg Shorthand, to be specific). Yes, shorthand is an obscure technology these days, but I thought it might help me take better, faster notes at meetings, and at the very least, make the note-taking process a little more interesting. If you have a curious mind and wonder how things work, then learning shorthand might be interesting to you too.

Here is the first group of good links I've found related to the topic of learning shorthand:

By Alvin Alexander on January 18, 2013
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