The Evolving Worker

When people discover mind-mapping, they often want to know how to use it better, what can be done. They wonder if there a “right” way to achieve a specific task with it. I don’t believe there is a “right” way, but I do believe looking at how other people use... read→

Getting Real is a great book, advocating simplicity and pragmatism in web application development. In fact, the advices in this book also apply to most kinds of projects (a recommended reading). After re-reading it, I wanted to find some tool to achieve rapid prototyping and user interface design in a... read→

I’m always looking for tools that make things easier in my day at work, like password managers, tools to find free space on your disk or such things. It’s almost obsessional, but I believe it’s a good thing. OmniGraffle is one of these tools – it’s a pretty neat charting... read→

This post will tell you why I now use password managers and which tools I’ve settled with. I’m a strong believer in simplicity. Despite this, it took me quite a bunch of time before starting to use password managers. That was procrastination, definitely. After starting to handle my own servers... read→

Running out of hard-disk space can cause troubles ranging from minor slow down to irreversible data loss when an application hangs. In this article I present a couple of tools to cope with this situation and try to prevent it. First two tips worth sharing: don’t delete files (or buy... read→

I wrote a while back about common use cases for mind-mapping. In this article I present a less common use: mind-maps can be used to create data used by database driven web applications or any other software. Two years ago, one of my customers wanted to build an intranet to... read→

Mind mapping is a technique I find very valuable to use on a daily basis at work for a variety of purposes. I first heard about it roughly one year and a half ago, through a friend of mine (thank you Céline!). At that time, Céline was playing around with... read→