Emacs + Org-mode.
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#12Getting well.
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#13Groovy/grails + Extjs + Netbeans + Customer Development (Four Steps to the Epiphany)
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#14Writing down what I just did and what I need to do next before every break has been a HUGE productivity boost for me at virtually no added effort. Heck, doing it just before every context switch is worth the minor inconvenience because it completely eliminates the ? "where was I?" from my mental vocabulary and lets me focus entirely on whatever the new problem I have to face is. It's literally a game-changer. Write i…
I've gotten into a habit of summarizing my work after a programming binge, and lately I've been modifying the way that I write comments (using different symbols to indicate different things) to facilitate automated documentation generation for my code. It's saved a ton of time.