Ways to Improve your Workflow

Slides used for a lightning talk given at Rails Girls Bangalore 2015. Whether you're a programmer or not, herein you might end up finding ways by which you can make more efficient use of your time as part of your daily work related life.

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1. Ways to Improve Your Workflow
2. Workflow Scenario 1. Starts from the time we leave our homes for office 2. Continues throughout our office day 3. Ends on reaching home
3. The Ways.. • Podcasts • Programming Workstation • Shortcuts ◦ Daily E-mail ◦ Weapons of a programmer - Tools • Audiobooks
4. The Ways..
5. Podcasts
6. Podcasts • An example - The Ruby Rogues Podcast ◦ Experiences and Perspectives ◦ Knowledge ◦ Picks
7. Programming Workstation
8. Your workstation - Your setup • Dual Monitors ◦ Reduces the frequency of back and forth switching
9. Shortcuts
10. What’s the idea? • Moving away from the mouse ◦ Helps you get some things done faster ◦ Reduces your dependency on something external • A general shortcut to see all the shortcuts - Shift + ?
11. Mail
12. Mail • An example - Gmail shortcuts ◦ Compose a mail - c ◦ Open a new mail - o ◦ Move back and forth between opened mails - j, k
13. Tools for Programmers
14. 1. Your Terminal • Shortcuts for your terminal ◦ iTerm2 ▪ to open split windows - cmd + D • aliases ◦ staging - ssh user@server_ip ◦ bundle install - bi
15. 2. Your Editor/IDE • An example editor - Sublime Text 3 for Mac OS X ◦ Split windows - cmd + option + 2(a number) ▪ The number corresponds to the number of split windows you’d want to have in your editor ◦ To search in an entire directory - cmd + shift + f ◦ To go to a particular definition - cmd + option + down arrow key ◦ To change multiple occurrences of a word at a time - cmd + d
16. Too many shortcuts - how to decide which ones I should focus on? • Introspect • Identify Patterns • Make a cheat sheet
17. Audiobooks
18. Audiobooks • reado • audible
19. Known is a drop, unknown is the ocean - the learning journey goes on..
20. Thank You • Photo Credits ◦ http://karankurani.com/post/24764169513/being-at- funzio-part-2-of-n
21. Twitter - @mohnishgj Github - boddhisattva Blog - boddhisattvadedicates.blogspot.com Mohnish G Jadwani