Google Calendar vs Scrybe

Some days ago I decided to to compare two on-line calendar utilities — Google Calendar and Scrybe. I had a question — what is better for me?

Result came very very quickly — I'm choosing Scrybe for now. And do you know what make choose it? A very simple detail — in Scrybe when you click on event you instantly has an access to it's settings and can change them. In Google Calendar when you click on event flying baloon appears, closing some of other events and suggesting you to delete event or change details. Are few more clicks but that is very important while creating a shedule with lots of entryes. I was bored by those clicks in Google Calendar. So I choose Scrybe. Althought it doesn't support russian letters.

Moreover I want to compare some other tools — Google Notebook with ThoughtPad in Scrybe. Moreover I want to understand what is better place for blogging for me — here on Blogspot or on WordPress.

Holidays are comming!

I've get a first "finish" in my study: today I passed last laboratory work on physics. Moreover today I've made in Engeneering Graphics work 7 and pieces of work 8, the last. I also started to work on lab #5 in programming.

Now I'll have 4 holidays. I'll try to make them productive in my study: finish Engeneering Graphics works, write application for 5th lab in programming and solve task in physics. What is more, I hope I'll have time to work on my software "project" CodeExplorer, or whatever it should be called. I want to implement better organisaton in project. In near plans I'll work not on code but on documentation and will document existing elements, in despite of that not all main modules of application exist. I think not-coding work will help in future development of project.

In conclusion alittle bit about how I'm trying to organise my activity. Not always well and correct but I'm trying to write plan for next few days and follow it. These days I'm using for plannig Scrybe and Todoist.

New tool

I've recently found new web-tool Todoist. Name speaks for itself. This tool is for tracking your todos. First view shows it is much better than similar tools I saw before. Moreover it is on some case can work as calendar. So i will try to use it actively and exlpore it and shape my opinion about it.

Morover today I spend some time working on my CodeExlporer -- some changes in architecture. As a result now I need documentation system to track those changes and organize them, bugs and ideas. Moreover I found how I can test my application with use of Python scripts. So in near plans I should make some documentation for project, roadmap, create test and after that continue to develop it. Good plan, isn't it? :-)

There is only one problem — university wants me to study and it takes a lot of my time...

A few words after long silence

Do you hear it? It is silence. Silence of time when I didn't wrote anything here. Now I again make some buzz in the blog.

I continue to read book "Code Complete". Good book. I get some new knowledge from there I more structured appearance of information I've already know. I think soon I'll try to use this knowledge in programming.

What is more I started to develop CodeExplorer — application to create documentation for source files. For example make description of class interface. I write it on Python, though in future may be I will rewrite it on other language.

Moreover I have in my head project of developing computer language! Optimistic idea, I have to say. Now I couldn't give time for it — still in war with arranging of time. However I try to use Scrybe.

And some piece of wisdom — just switch on your head!

In brief — lab #3

I have a little time, so will be short. Yesterday I passed lab #3 on programming. That's cool :-)) And now I get new exercise on recurse. That's not very cool :-(( You can find my lab on Picasa.

Finding time for all you need

The result of my ideas, which I have written in last posts: don't put all perspective projects on shelf, try do do them. So I started to read new book try to make my own software project. So I need to split my time between studying, self education, reading news, implementing some software projects and of course... living an interesting life! Not an easy task, I need to properly set priorities and to find useful activities, which should be dumped.

Recently I finished work on lab #3 on programming. It was big: about 45 pages. So what will be in future labs??

Moreover I've started to read "Code complete" by Steve McConnel. Hope this book will help me improve my coding skills.

Moreover I periodically think about my own software project. There were some ideas like on-line RSS reader. However it needs from me to know how to interact with databases. So now this project is going on the shelf but I've decided to restart studying of PERL and get another attempt to learn MySQL. After I learn to use them in one system I will try to make something like RSS reader.

But now I have in mind another big project — my own programming language!!! Sounds like a buzz.... And now it is really only a buzz. But I think in next few days I will start little steps on road of developing this project. I should start with an mission, aims and roadmap. I will implement project on C++ of course. I don't have a name for the project, to be honest I don't sure I will make something interesting, so now I will call this like P1. Good codename, don't you think so? :-)

Another day

This is a respond to the last article: what I've done today (or yesterday in some terms :-).

• of course had a classes in university. Moreover I've done some homework
  
• read a lot of news, also from the Monday
• bought a new book: "Code complete, Second Edition" by Steve McConnell. A heard good feedback on this book so I've decided to buy it.
  

Parallel tasking

In the last post I said that the one should do what he want now without postponing his wish to the future. But what what to do if you have a lot of wishes and passions? I.e. I want to read a lot of books. Should I read all these books simultaneously? Of course not, but putting all tasks in one queue will set me in situation, when I want something, but haven't enough time or resources to do that. So, I think, what I should do is to divide my wishes and passions into groups and form several queues. Items from one queue are performed simultaneously, while queue itself are performed in parallel mode.

Not difficult idea, it was formed long times ago... But I in someway walk through this way of organizational principles and getting them for me and trying to use them.

All in all unless you are child it's you who are shaping your mind. It's you who decide what to read, what to do, who to respond on this new knowledge, how to use it.