While poetry is a product, being a poet is, to me, a worthwhile and lifelong pursuit. In my latest column for Read Write Poem, I dig beneath the question of writing daily, to answer how one can, in fact, engage life as a poet every day.
Some of the tactics may surprise you. Would you believe that actually limiting your writing time to shorter bursts can make you more prolific? Or that getting organized might make you more creative?
Check out this month’s Poetry Advice Column for more unusual approaches that just might help you live a bit more like a poet every day.
Part two of this series deals with some of the corollaries between Extreme Programming and GTD® and is aimed as much at those who manage programmers as those who actually write the code. Again, it is available on The David Allen Company website and 43Folders.
Part one of a two-part series on best practices for applying GTD® to software development is now available on both The David Allen Company web site and 43 Folders. I lay out software development and teamwork best practices we lived and breathed building GTD Connect. Hopefully a lot of the concepts extend beyond software development, into how to apply GTD to other long-range group projects. Part two is due out tomorrow. Enjoy!
Issue 05.05 of International PHP Magazine is out, featuring my article on, “Optimizing, Staticizing, and Caching PHP”. I have written about this topic quite a bit in the past (including here and here) and still consider it an essential part of the greater picture of how to bring PHP into the enterprise as a reliable, fast alternative to solutions like ASP and JSP. This issue should hit newsstands in Europe today, and is available overseas to subscribers.
Issue 04.05 of PHP Magazine just hit newsstands all over Europe with my article about Farming PHP on the cover. My preview of the subject generated considerable interest from the community, making me realize what an important and far-reaching topic this really is. If you are serious about running PHP in high-traffic, business-critical situations, I highly recommend picking up a copy or better yet subscribing. This issue looks packed with interesting topics, including MySQL clustering (a great companion to my “Farming” article) and some fascinating work by Harvard graduate students to write speech recognition software entirely in PHP.
Issue 03.05 of International PHP Magazine is out, featuring my article on, “Enterprise PHP Coding Standards.” This topic seems to have sparked considerable interest from my previous entries (here, here, here, and here) and the teaser article available on the IPM site. This issue should hit newsstands in Europe today, and is available overseas to subscribers. More on the IPM website from the editor.
