Author Archives: jonezy

100 Pushups

By jonezy | Published: July 16, 2008
I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled on the 100 Push ups Training Program, but it immediately caught my attention as something I could integrate into my existing exercise program (note: my current exercise program consists of nothing more then waking up every morning). The frequency and pace of the program seemed like something I [...]
Posted in exercise, life hacks, personal | 1 Comment

Cross Post: Rockefeller Habits meet SCRUM

By jonezy | Published: July 16, 2008
Thought I would repost something I wrote for my companies blog here, it’s exciting news and I thought it would be appropriate to share! Rockefeller Habits meet SCRUM
Posted in business, q4, work | 1 Comment

Embracing constraints

By jonezy | Published: June 17, 2008
In the design and development world there is a lot of talk about constraints and embracing them to foster creativity. I love this movement and subscribe to it (at least I try to). One thing that has slowly crept up on me though is that this type of attitude is starting to gain some real [...]
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Spread Firefox!

By jonezy | Published: June 16, 2008
Tomorrow, the Mozilla foundation is releasing the latest version of the Firefox browser. While they are at it they are also trying to set a record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period. If you aren’t using Firefox tomorrow would be a great time to try it, it really is [...]
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Why can’t I do that?

By jonezy | Published: June 16, 2008
I just had to post this video I came across the other day, it’s a google tech talk and the presenter is Aza Raskin (Son of Jeff Raskin, the guy who started the macintosh project for apple).  He’s also one of the founders of Humanized who make the most excellent Enso launcher product, a company [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, awesome, design, development, google, software | 2 Comments

Birthday Contest @ CodeSqueeze

By jonezy | Published: June 8, 2008
Max Poole is holding a contest at his blog to give away a copy of Bamboo 2.0 (continuous integration software) and a copy of Slick Edit (suite of add-ons for visual studio) I’ve never used the Slick Edit product but I’ve got lot’s of experience using Atlassian products (Jira and confluence) and would love to get [...]
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NIRI and Web 2.0

By jonezy | Published: June 8, 2008
For the past 2 years the amazing sales team that I work with at Q4 Web Systems have ventured out to San Diego for the annual NIRI conference. It’s a really important event for us and it’s always great to hear about it when the team get’s back. This morning while I was going through [...]
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Rocks and Rewards!

By jonezy | Published: June 2, 2008
So as part of our company alignment and implementing the Rockefeller Habits at Q4 our quarterly theme was moving rocks together. We set aside a room with a video camera and plates with peoples names on them, if you felt the urge to recognize someone you could go into the room and record a short [...]
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How often do you commit?

By jonezy | Published: May 31, 2008
I was working on some code today and was getting ready to do a check in and I thought to myself, should I be checking this code in? I made tiny change that would end up being part of a bigger refactoring of some tests I was writing, I wasn’t sure if I would be [...]
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jonezy.org.BackpackAPI

By jonezy | Published: May 27, 2008
Is the reason why I haven’t been posting here, I’m working on building a c# wrapper for the 37 Signals Backpack API. Nothing terribly exciting yet (I’m basically just implementing the services per the api docs). I’m hosting this at Google Code and this will be an open source project. I’m also [...]
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