After the MySql exam on the previous Friday (followed by labs on the Saturday), week 8 was a reading week. Time to catch up you would hope. Unfortunately, I came out of the labs with a two-page "to-do" list that threatened to absorb all my spare time of the week. Things got off to bad start when I had to reinstall Rails on my home computer. A lot of "cussin" ensued, then it was time to make a start on the Rails project for Server Side. More "cussin".
The "
pomodoro technique" had been mentioned in one of the previous week's classes & I thought to try it out. It's a method of managing your time aimed at improving a person's mental agility while facing a body of work. The steps are as follows:
- decide on the task to be done
- set the pomodoro (timer) to 25 minutes
- work on the task until the timer rings; record with an x
- take a short break (5 minutes)
- every four "pomodoros" take a longer break (15–20 minutes)
Unfortunately, I usually found that I'd get so little of the task done in the first 25 mins that I'd end up working past that & end up taking a longer break after a couple of hours. It may be something I'll return to though if this programming/web development lark ever takes off for me.
