Archive for December, 2008
Long checklists? Use dice…
My thesis editing checklists are at least 20 items long. “Fix figure axes” takes a minute, but “translate Abstract into French” takes almost an hour.
If I go through them chronologically, I run out of steam before the end. And if I just go ahead and pick them, I’ll procrastinate on the harder ones.
So, I number [...]
Pushing for a New Year’s Beta
I figured New Year’s would be a great time to release a beta version, so people can try HabitShaper out with their New Year’s resolutions.
I’ll try for it. My thesis is taking a while to complete. True to the 80-20 rule*, 80% of it took 20% of the time and effort. But the last few [...]
Feedback: Of the Positive and non-Positive varieties
I woke up the other day, and stumbled over to my office. Waiting in my inbox was: some Feedback!
First, I received a gushing response from a friend I haven’t heard from in a while. He predicted I will be sitting on a shiny mountain of gold coins thanks to this program. He also made a [...]
User Interface Mockup
Here’s a sketch of the main window. It consists of a goal per row. Each goal can be expanded (as the first three) to show more info, or left collapsed (as in the last three) which shows only the essentials.
I have switched from using Windows Forms to WPF for the user interface. It’s not just [...]