Author: Funkstop
Date: November 18, 2014
Welcome to the next function: Notifications, Interrupts, Flags, and Semaphores. If you haven’t already, you may want to read the previous posts: Part 1: Multitasking is a necessity Part 2: Starting points for the 1st function: Prioritization Part 3: Time-Slicing It’s been another week and there’s another article talking about the detriments of multitasking, and … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: October 20, 2014
Learning the 2nd function: Time-Slicing Welcome back! The next function in mastering how to Multitask: TimeSlicing. If you haven’t already, you may want to read the previous posts: Part 1: Multitasking is a necessity Part 2: Starting points for the 1st function: Prioritization In the first post, we got the basics of multitasking down (vs multi-processing … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: October 1, 2014
Starting points to mastering the 4 basic functions of multitasking:Prioritization, TimeBoxing, Notifications and Flags, Scheduling. This is the 2nd of a multi-part post on multitasking?—?if you haven’t already, read Part 1: Multitasking is a necessity. Learn to be an executing machine. As mentioned in the previous post, the key to multitasking effectively, is to model … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: September 29, 2014
Multitasking is a necessity. Learn to be an executing machine. (This article is also on Medium) I’ve always been a proponent of “work hard, play hard”?—?sure, ultimately you have to get things done, but no matter what effort you’re putting your time into, you should do it well and with the utmost focus. When you’re … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: March 5, 2014
Following are my notes from MWC 2014 Overall, it was pretty underwhelming as a conference. There were a few interesting standouts, but in general it was more of the same — fortunately, we were part of one of the most exciting events, Samsung’s Unpacked Event for the S5 – which technically was not part of … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: June 21, 2011
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TechnologyEvery engineer, over the years of their career, develops an appreciation for particular design patterns. In general, there are multiple tools that one can pull from for any particular problem, and engineers with different personalities end up with their own customized grab bag of tricks including preferred patterns. My personal favorite pattern was always the … Read More