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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Mon, 28 May 2012 04:07:03 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Jay On Software</title><subtitle>Jay On Software</subtitle><id>http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/atom.xml"/><updated>2012-01-11T12:41:24Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Daily Routine of a 4 Hour Programmer</title><category term="CodeProject"/><category term="Mind"/><category term="Productivity"/><id>http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/2012/1/9/daily-routine-of-a-4-hour-programmer.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/2012/1/9/daily-routine-of-a-4-hour-programmer.html"/><author><name>Jay Janarthanan</name></author><published>2012-01-09T11:59:01Z</published><updated>2012-01-09T11:59:01Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Everyone knows the routine, get to work by 9 AM, sit in front of the computer, code all day, and head home at 5. Now, thanks to guys like Tim Ferris I have started to re-think how I work and what makes me productive as a software developer. Recently, I made some big changes to my Monday to Friday schedule. For a long time, I did things just like all of the other coders I know. But during the second half of 2011, I started experimenting to see what type of daily schedule makes me most productive and here is my current schedule:]]></summary></entry><entry><title>About this blog: Becoming a productive software developer</title><category term="About"/><category term="Mind"/><id>http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/2011/12/14/about-this-blog-becoming-a-productive-software-developer.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/2011/12/14/about-this-blog-becoming-a-productive-software-developer.html"/><author><name>Jay Janarthanan</name></author><published>2011-12-14T13:21:39Z</published><updated>2011-12-14T13:21:39Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Golf has Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus; and the programming world has its own list of superstars. Check out this post on Quora for a full list of rock stars selected by other developers. These are the guys running the start-ups and working in lead spots at Google and Facebook.  You see, anybody can tee up and swing, but only a few hit it on the green every time. In my personal experience, the top 10% of developers can write more code then all the other 90% combined.  How? The greats—golfer and developer alike—shine by maximizing their mental and physical capabilities.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>What demotivates me the most as a developer?</title><category term="Mind"/><category term="Productivity Killers"/><id>http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/2011/12/8/what-demotivates-me-the-most-as-a-developer.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/2011/12/8/what-demotivates-me-the-most-as-a-developer.html"/><author><name>Jay Janarthanan</name></author><published>2011-12-08T08:58:01Z</published><updated>2011-12-08T08:58:01Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[I have been developing software over the last 20 years. In this time I faced several things that de-motivated me from my work.  In addition, I passed on that same non motivation to fellow software developers. In my experience, a properly motivated developer can be exponentially more productive than one who has lost their motivation.  I have made a point to keep a list of the things that leads to such a state in an effort to combat it. Today I am writing about the worst of worst.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>What I learned from Steve Jobs</title><category term="Mind"/><category term="Steve Jobs"/><id>http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/2011/11/19/what-i-learned-from-steve-jobs.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.jayonsoftware.com/home/2011/11/19/what-i-learned-from-steve-jobs.html"/><author><name>Jay Janarthanan</name></author><published>2011-11-19T12:00:30Z</published><updated>2011-11-19T12:00:30Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[About 20 years ago, I was in San Francisco. It was my first visit to  the city, and while walking along Moscone Center I saw Steve standing  outside waiting for his car. This was during the time he was running  NeXT. I walked up to him and said, You must be Steve Jobs, I just want  to shake your hand Keep in mind, I was 20 at the time. We shook  hands and spoke for about a minute. This chance meeting, was  inspirational]]></summary></entry></feed>
