January 2007
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Are Your Actions "Next" Enough?
If you’re not getting things done, it’s not GTD.
Early on, I often found myself looking at an action on my actions list, and thinking, “nah - I’m not going to do that now.” It didn’t take long for the alarm bells to start ringing.
I started asking myself why I wouldn’t do that action now. In most cases, I found that the action wasn’t...
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GTD Evangelism
A few months ago I was in bad shape. I had recently taken on a lot more responsibility at work, and found that the main thing I enjoy about work, Java architecture & coding, I didn’t have any time left to do. More than that, I couldn’t seem to find time to do the other stuff either. And on the rare occasions I found myself with a chunk of spare time to get some work done, I...
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6 Tips for Java Threads
A while back I replied to a message on the Java Posse newsgroup entitled “Threads are EVIL”. The poster was having trouble with Java threads, so in addition to recommending Java Thread Programming and Java Concurrency in Practice, I summarised the basics in the following tips.
#1 - Know what each of your threads does, and which threads can be inside which methods …You can use...