How to Increase Your Brain's Cache Hits?

Being a professional developer requires staying up-to-date all the time.

Time is a very precious resource for us. We need to learn new programming-languages, technologies,
keep the knowledge we already have, while being expected to work fast and produce high-quality results.

We frequently find ourselves with the feeling we work slower than we could. Whether its over-googling
for things we did dozens of times in the past, using too much the mouse instead of alternative keyboard shortcuts
or searching for that famous Github repository we know exists but having hard time remembering its name.

Our brain has a cache too. In this talk we will tackle various techniques of how to increase dramatically our cache's hits
and work faster and more productive

we will address these main issues:
1. How to learn a new programming-language/lib faster and better?
2. How to remember more keyboard-shortcuts in less time?
3. How to learn from technical mistakes encountered during coding?

Transcript

1. How to Increase Your! Brain’s Cache Hits? Yaron Wittenstein http://YaronWittenstein.com
2. Do You Know That Feeling?
4. “ Human Task Switches ! Considered Harmful ” Joel Spolsky http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html
6. Spaced Repetition 4th Reminder 3rd Reminder 2nd Reminder 1st Reminder
7. Friendly, intelligent flash cards ! Remembering things just became much easier!
8. http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html
10. QWERTY Keyboard: ! symbol ____ goes with 7 7
11. QWERTY Keyboard: ! symbol ____ goes with 7 7 Easy Again Hard &
12. bash: ! ! command to kill a process by its PID bash hacks Suspend Delete Edit search goes here
13. chrome web-dev Suspend Delete Edit chrome:! ! shortcut for Launching the Chrome Developer-Tools (under OSX)! shortcuts
14. Regular-Expression: (Ruby) ! ! /^\d+/ vs /[^\d]+/ /^\d+/ - line should start with at least one digit /[^\d]+/ - any non-digit sequence of length > 0
15. Shortcuts Troubleshooting Hacks Syntax Flashcards Categories Nuances Technical Terms
16. Self-Awareness! is a Prerequisite for Proactivity
17. Make it a Daily Habit!
18. More than 1700 Cards (and growing…) Goes well with Evernote Started 9 months ago I Practice Anki Daily (5 minutes)
19. More Exposure More Collaboration New Tools
20. How to start? Get Anki Set Aside Time for Creating Cards Start Creating Your Own Cards Have Daily Reminders For Review http://bit.ly/brain-cache-hits References: