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Planning for the inevitable end
Software maturity requires planning for the inevitable death of your users. You must implement marketing kill switches, clear data retention policies, and account delegation. Stop annoying grieving families by automating bereavement reporting and protecting user namespaces. Building these mechanisms proves your organization handles every user stage with the respect deserved.
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Productive Time Management
This week I played with the Pomodoro time management technique to see if it would improve throughput. Results are encouraging.
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My Top 2018 Movies
This year, I kept track via an IMDB list of all my viewing output, rating each one out of 10, as and when I watched it. While I tagged over 240 items, here are only the movies that, according to their IMDB rating was released in 2018. I confess to being surprised by some of my end-of-year results, but as they say, data doesn’t lie. The stand out movie, that…
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Amazon Lambda now accepting SQS events directly (nearly)
Amazon has closed the gap between Lambda and processing events directly from SQS, opening up a world of possibilities.
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The Gemini PDA 2018; hands on review
After a few weeks of usage, learn what makes this Psion revival a wonderful addition to the Android smartphone world
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3 simple guidelines to protect our ever connected ‘smart’ device universe
As we become more beholden to companies to keep our smart devices functioning long after purchase date, I propose 3 guidelines to address this imbalance and risk.
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The browser war is over; guess who won?
There is no more browser war. We’ve already traded our data and privacy which yields us unable to fight in the war. Like our music, movies and photos, our browsing has fallen, the powerful internet corporation’s have quietly taken another scalp.
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Couple of tricks to manage a Zero Inbox
A zero inbox is that wonderful feeling of knowing you’ve taken care of business. Discover a couple of wee tricks to make this easy to maintain.
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‘Save’ has all but been eliminated on the web; when will it die on the desktop?
We live in a ‘save’ less world online, but the humble desktop has yet to catch up with this, forcing me to think of when to save my process.
the leg-end that is, Alan Williamson.
For over 20 years, I’ve shared my thoughts whenever the muse strikes. It’s unpredictable, honest, unedited, and occasionally witty. I’m living the best years of my life, working harder than ever, and enjoying every second.
Alan Williamson 