Coding on the go - Setting up local Apache

As one might imagine, I’ve setup Apache with PHP support quite some times over the last years. A thing I’ve already enjoyed, is having a local development environment installed on my laptop, and having my development environment with me, everywhere I go. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll walk you through setting everything up. We’ll start out by setting up Apache. Read the rest of this entry…

GTD - a crash course

I’ve been on the GTD (Getting Things Done) wagon for a couple of years, and as part of it, a lot of people ask the obvious question: What is it, and what’s the point ?

Let’s start at the beginning: Getting Things Done is a way of improving productivity. It’s a way of organizing your life, it’s a way of optimizing your day-to-day life and it’s a way to combat stress. This might sound like just yet another scheme to steal money, but it’s not really. The only thing you have to invest in, is the book, and from there on, the implementation of GTD in you life depends on what you make of it.

GTD has had quite a lot of success during the last couple of years, and is in general very popular among especially developers, as it has a very structured approach to projectmanagement, and life in general. Read the rest of this entry…

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