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: February 26, 2012
I’m looking forward to MWC 2012 this year – the excitement has being growing insanely for the past couple years, and it feels like 2001 again when the last mobile wave swept the industry. This year, it is going to go from strength to strength from last year. Before going in, I thought it would … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: November 11, 2011
So why did I join Movember this year? For the past couple years, as winter has started to set in, I’ve watched as fellow gents not only adorn winter jackets and wool caps, but also well groomed whiskers, transforming into alter-characters in an attempt to raise awareness for prostate cancer. It has grown to be … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: September 10, 2011
I sometimes look back at 9/11 and wonder if my memory of it has altered and if the reality was different than I recall. It was such a long time ago – I had wrote about it on my laptop at the time, but unfortunately lost it before backing it up and never ended … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: August 22, 2011
Slowly, Cautiously… foot’s trembling, but stable. Just need to go slowly. It doesn’t seem like anyone has been along this path – the spider webs are huge. Just don’t look backwards. Heights are scary enough and there’s no need to look backwards to see how far I’ve climbed. I’ll do that when I get to … 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
Author: Funkstop
Date: February 23, 2011
Following are some of my high level observations from Mobile World Congress 2011 Overall, the conference was incredibly large. I have not been for 2 years, but this year it seemed a bit overwhelming with a record number of attendees – an indicator of the amount of money that is flooding into Mobile currently. There … Read More
Author: Funkstop
Date: December 28, 2010
So this year was a bit of out with the old, in with the new… and part of the Decade theme “bring back the fun” was started with consolidating media, tracks, and pics. Much of it was spent nostalgic listening to old tracks reminiscing about years past… but even then, there were some notable tracks … Read More