Category Archives: Productivity

Optimize Your Notetaking With Glyphs

I wanted to share a quick tip that I’ve been using for years to make my notes (written and typed) more useful. By nature I am a pretty disorganized note-taker.  When jotting down notes I typically work in a very scattered “mind map” layout.  I find if I try to keep to any sort of [...]

A Small List of Best Practices for Sysadmins and Programmers

I present you with my small list of best practices that I have used in the past as reference material and guidelines for work I have done.  I hope that by sharing this it will inspire you to share your favorites, or even create your own best practices documents to help move the practice of [...]

An Introduction to Graphviz with a Crazy Story About Turnips

Audience: Slightly nerdy, comfortable installing software, not afraid of using the command-line, somewhat OCD about organization Graphviz is a graph visualization suite (clever name huh?) created by AT&T to quickly and powerfully map out complicated networks.  This compelling, open-source project will allow you to to see the emergence of patterns that are not immediately obvious, and to [...]