http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog Matthew Morgan's software notions Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:51:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This has become a veritable series: first I posted about GTD media I've tried, then about the mobile version of my current setup. Now it's time to look at what's on the computer itself. At one point that just meant OmniOutliner for my lists and iCal for my calendar. ... http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog/archives/2007/03/13/gtd-at-the-desk Last time I hinted at a hybrid paper/computer GTD scheme. Here's the on-the-go version: I keep my inbox and next actions on paper, specifically a long narrow piece of Rhodia 7.4x21cm graph paper. My next actions cover one side, and there's plenty of inbox room on the other side. ... http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog/archives/2007/03/12/gtd-on-the-go One of the great things about GTD is that it's technology-agnostic. You can do it with pen and paper, or use all sorts of software tools. And in the last year, I've wandered all over that map. When I first got into GTD, I kept all my lists in ... http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog/archives/2007/03/11/a-gtd-journey Inspired by Michael McCracken's Webmail.app, I came up with a way to turn a copy of Camino 1.1 Beta into a dedicated Gmail-reading application. Here's how to do it (assuming you're used to messing about inside an application package): Make a copy of Camino.app, and rename it Gmail.app. Change ... http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog/archives/2007/03/05/hacking-camino-into-gmailapp And not just any job: I'm working at Google. Google Kirkland, to be precise. I started with a week of training in Mountain View, and have just finished my first week at the Kirkland office. (So, for the record, now that I have an employer: This is my personal ... http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog/archives/2007/03/04/i-got-a-job My allergic reaction to hype and personal distaste for keyword block delimiters (do...end) has kept me away from Ruby, but I gave it a try the other day and you know what? I like it. I had some minor XML-munging to do, so I started writing a Python script. ... http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog/archives/2006/11/29/a-taste-of-ruby I've been wondering whether to keep programming or switch careers (see my last post), and I think I've found a way to do both. I like working as part of a team, and I missed that as an indie developer. So I'm going to get a programming job. I like balancing ... http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog/archives/2006/11/29/where-to-go-from-here A lot has changed in the months since I last posted here. I've been rethinking my life and my work, and a lot of things are now up in the air. One thing is clear, though: my indie-development experiment is over. I won't be completing or shipping ... http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog/archives/2006/08/21/a-long-overdue-update I've been on an enforced vacation these last few weeks, much of it away from the computer. And on top of those goings-on, I've been launched into a reevaluation of my vocation and what the heck I'm doing with my life. So that's why there hasn't been anything ... http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog/archives/2006/05/01/im-still-here This iMac I'm using is my last uniprocessor computer. After decades of predictions about parallelism, the multiprocessor machine is finally going mainstream. And now that multiple cores fit on a single chip, they're going to multiply at a Moore's-law pace. So it's about time we figured out how to ... http://www.matthewmorgan.net/blog/archives/2006/04/14/concurrency-is-coming