Here’s my RPM track list for November 2014. [table] Track,Title,Artist,Time,Release Pack Ride,Make the World Move,Christina Aguilera feat. CeeLo Green,4:44,59 Pace,Take Over Control,Martina Lorene,5:27,52 Hills,Don’t You Worry Child (Promise Land Remix),Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin,6:31,61 Mixed Terrain,Flesh and Bone,Winged Dune,5:07,59…
November 2014 BODYJAM Mix
Given I’ll probably only be teaching about two classes each month, I’ll be using this mix through the end of the year. I’d like to launch the 2015 Q1 release (BODYJAM 71) in early to mid-January. [table] Track,Title,Artist Warmup,I Can…
Made to Stick
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Other Die (by Chip and Dan Heath) is one of the books I revisit at least once a year. My memory is failing me about where I found this book — maybe seeing it…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 44
Dates covered: October 27 – November 2, 2014 (week 44 of 52) Career Career planning: Disaster recovery (via The Morning Brew) Career planning: Mine (via The Morning Brew) Culture You Are Not A Machine. You Are Not Alone. (via Smashing Magazine) The Couch…
Productivity Process – Part 2
In the previous post, I covered the Getting Things Done (GTD) method in general terms and mentioned some systems that I use to help me focus on getting useful work accomplished rather than remembering what work I have to do. I…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 43
Dates covered: October 20-26, 2014 (week 43 of 52) Culture Your Community Door (via Jeff Atwood) What If We Could Weaponize Empathy? (via Jeff Atwood) The Evil “Tests” Job Interviewers Can Give (and How to Avoid Them) (via Lifehacker) Process, and Culture (via…
Productivity Process – Part 1
Everyone has some process, even if it’s not formalized or even consistent, for doing things. In this series of posts I’ll share some insights about my method of staying productive. Image credit: Rawich The Fundamentals The basis for my current process is the Getting…
Video Splitter Project – Part 1
A few months ago, I was contacted by a professor, Dr. Jeff Larsen from the psychology department at The University of Tennessee, about a simple automation project he had in mind. In this series of posts (and as the project progresses),…
Undoing Work in Mercurial
Some context The genesis of this post was a training session I had with a coworker who was new to distributed version control. Two things to keep in mind: Up until fairly recently, our dev shop was using TFS. We’re…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 42
Dates covered: October 13-19, 2014 (week 42 of 52) Communication Always Bet on Text (via Jeff Awtood) Culture The Humanized Expert Beginner (via Eric Dietrich) The Old Guard (via Michael Lopp) The Code Warriors (via Eric Dietrich) Getting Drunk off Our Own Kegerators…