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Gettin’ Your Head Straight: Kode Vicious is hungry. He sustains himself on your questions from the software development trenches (and lots of beer). Without your monthly missives, KV is like a fish out of water, or a scientist without a problem to solve. So please, do you part to keep him sane (or at least free from psychotic episodes), occupied, and useful.

Published: 01 July 2007 Publication History

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Dear KV, One of the biggest problems I have is memory. Not the RAM in my computer, but the wet squishy stuff in my head. It seems that no matter how many signs I put up around my cube, nor how often I turn off all the annoying instant messaging clients I need to use for work, I can’t get through more than 15 minutes of work without someone interrupting me, and then I lose my train of thought. If this happens when I’m reading e-mail, that’s not a problem, but when working on code, in particular when debugging a difficult problem in code, this makes my life very difficult. What tricks are there to being able to maintain a train of thought without moving up the side of a mountain?

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  1. Gettin’ Your Head Straight: Kode Vicious is hungry. He sustains himself on your questions from the software development trenches (and lots of beer). Without your monthly missives, KV is like a fish out of water, or a scientist without a problem to solve. So please, do you part to keep him sane (or at least free from psychotic episodes), occupied, and useful.

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    Queue  Volume 5, Issue 5
    Web Development
    July/August 2007
    39 pages
    ISSN:1542-7730
    EISSN:1542-7749
    DOI:10.1145/1281881
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    Published: 01 July 2007
    Published in QUEUE Volume 5, Issue 5

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