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IT frustration and counter-productive applications

almost 3 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Frustrated by internal systems! I just finished writing a page for our intranet. But now I ended up frustrated with no article published: First attempt...

Hitler’s Final Agile Planning Meeting

almost 3 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
It all ends with the fatal Iteration#6 — at least according to this video a colleague pointed me to. Video clip is taken from “The Downfall” and texted...

Jef Raskin’s First Law of Interface Design Explained

almost 3 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
In variation of Isaac Asimov’s first law of robotics, Jef Raskin writes the first law of interface design: “Any system shall not harm your content or...

HTML Guide Textmate Snippets Open Sourced

almost 3 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
One year ago I published “Design Guide or HTML Markup Guide” with link to the HTML guide we did for the biggest Danish business internet portal. The...

Shorthand to clean up installed Rubygems (but don’t cleanup Rails)

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I trimmed my installed Rubygems on my local development machine. The command “sudo gem cleanup” is just for that. Only problem: What about my older...

Importing Existing Git repository into SVN

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Many of my colleagues know svn but are in general not (yet) ready jump over to using Git for bigger projects. Today I had to import my existing Git repository...

Remove smileys in messenger program (iChat for mac)

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
It has long annoyed me that there is no intuitive, straightforward way to disable smileys in chat programs. Today I found that these two commands can do...

Rup vs Scrum vs Kanban

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
For a presentation tomorrow, my colleague Mads decided to include this illustration that compares the number of “rules” in some of the most used software...

How to add Git Pull Shortcut to Different Github Branches

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Short explanation on how to pull changes from different Git repositories into your local Git repository. Last week I worked with three different Github...

The Quick Way to Creating Disabled State Icon With Photoshop

over 2 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
For an internal demo, I had to make my own disabled and :hover states of some buttons. In Photoshop (Elements) it was dead easy by adjusting the color in...