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Things Productive People Do Differently

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Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently interviewed over 200 ultra-productive people including seven billionaires, 13 Olympians, 20 straight-A students and over 200 successful entrepreneurs. I asked a simple, open-ended question, “What is your number one secret to productivity?” After analyzing all of their responses, I coded their answers into 15 unique ideas. 15 Surprising Things Productive People Do Differently Kevin […]

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Effective Software Development with Agile SCRUM

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Reading Time: 13 minutesThis article outlines my experience with using Agile Scrum to develop enterprise level software. The steps listed below are compiled from across the internet. See the end of this article for sources. Development Team Metrics Agile metrics are an essential component of the development process and are critical to communicating development estimates as well as

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MySQL Best Practices

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDatabase operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. As programmers need to do our part by structuring tables properly, writing optimized queries and better code. Table Names By convention, the “snake case” in lowercase (no PascalCase – we’re not using Microsoft SQL Server here!), plural name of the class will

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Connecting to Ubuntu Servers With RSA Keys

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Reading Time: 2 minutesI manage a bunch of internal servers and for those that aren’t part of the wider web I like to use key pairs to speed up my sign ins and maintenance. Key-Based SSH Logins Key-based authentication is the most secure mode of authentication usable with OpenSSH. Key-based authentication has several advantages over password authentication, for example

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