while often overlooked in our industry, it's the importance of hitting the "reset" button. we're making sure clients are happy, sales people have the information they need, and that can creep very hard into the rest of they day.
instituting a "hard stop" can go a long way, it did for me. i've spent 12-15hrs at the office, per day, dealing with meetings, questions, providing guidance and the like.
eventually you must put you interests first. whether it's picking up that book, working on that personal project, or calling that friend who works in a different field.
ultimately, the problems are not crazy new, but it's the day to day that burns people out. there's knowledge to be shared but when you feel like day in and day out it's the same old, then all the more reason to institute basic guides/metrics that let us know things are on track.
vacation is equally important, truly the 'reset' button, get off the grid. after all, it things fall apart while we're getting replenished, it's time to rethink our priorities.
found that interesting as well, given that the release is around python+django, but it makes sense for the sake of quickly doing a demo with minimal requirements.
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does adding Flask in requirements.txt automatically handle the easy_install portion?
This is a step in the right direction for Microsoft when it comes to addressing the basic needs the majority(?) of their install base. Getting enterprise users to follow right along might not be as straightforward, but the creation of a curated environment for app distribution and an ecosystem that is center around the common user is certainly welcome.
All the items described in this article are the reason why I love my suite of Apple products, specially iOS devices. Glad to see Microsoft headed that way.
My father was the first one to migrate to the States pursuing academia because he found that it was a path he couldn't pursue to a degree of his liking in our country of birth. Having said that, I chose option b as an alternative wasn't necessarily present that I felt was close to my situation. At 15, 4 years after his initial migration, I moved to the States. Do I qualify as an immigrant myself? It has been 13 years since I migrated.
it will be interesting to see if this is a way for google to provide a marketplace within ios devices (specially) via a potential release of chrome for iphone/ipad/ipod, effectively allowing android developers an in to both consumer groups.
ios does it with the search bar in safari, but it'd be nice if spotlight would also let you search the current document, search the web, etc. all with a simple command+spacebar.
