Efficiency

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

I am, at times, surprised by people’s inability or unwillingness to find more efficient ways of performing tedious tasks.

Sys admins: Learn to use the unix toolset (sed, grep, etc)
Windows admins: install cygwin so you can use the unix toolset on windows.
Windows software engineers: Get yourself a decent editor.
Documentation writers: Get Docbook, learn LaTeX or at least learn how to use MS Word efficiently. One does not vertically align text using the spacebar! (Nor do you make headings using font-sizes and bold)