Tool Sharpening: August 24, 2014

Sunday, 24 August, 2014 — development improvement

For some background on what’s going on here, see the first tool sharpening post

This week has been pretty light, so I’ll present this without much in the way of ceremony:

• I read up on using pry as a debugger for Ruby
• Started a small project to work on in order to refresh my Rails knowledge
  • Identified the project from a list of potential projects I’ve been keeping
  • Fleshed out the questions I want the product to answer
  • Instantiated a Git repository for the project
  • Sorted out dependencies
  • Built an initial schema diagram
• Rebuilt smart mailboxes for Apple Mail
  • My previous mailboxes disappeared a little while ago and rather than chase down recovering them, I set-up new ones
    • All unread
    • Unread from the last two weeks
    • Unread from the past 2 days
    • Mailing Lists
    • Recent from the last two weeks
  • In the morning, checking email, I can check what’s new from the last two days and move on with my day
  • As I have other time, I can knock down more of the backlog