Questions tagged [time-management]

Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.

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flutter: how to change current date and time from my app

Flutter or kotlin or Java: How to change the current device date and time from my app. without going to device settings. My phone time is now 6:45 and I want to change it to 07:30. I can do it from settings but how I can do it from my flutter app. I…
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Get the name of the current opened application in python

I want to get the application name that is currently opened using python. This is my code import win32.win32gui as win32gui w = win32gui window_name = w.GetWindowText(w.GetForegroundWindow()) window_name = str(window_name) start_time =…
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How do you balance working for a living and contributing to open source projects?

I have been a working programmer since the turn of the century and I have always been fascinated by the open source world. I have wanted to contribute to these projects but I find it difficult to find the time that I think these projects would…
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What is the best practice for estimating required time for development of the SDLC phases?

As a project manager, you are required to organize time so that the project meets a deadline. Is there some sort of equations to use for estimating how long the development will take? let's say the database time = sql storedprocedures * tables…
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How to organize team resources with ever changing clients / project requirements

We have a pool of technical resources consisting of some front end developers, back end developers, graphic designers. Those resources are separated from clients directly by one or two account people per client. Requests from clients come in…
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Fix Web App bugs by reloading page, or reloading script / external resource

Say I just found a bug involving javascript workflow in a web app. Most of the time I will fix the bug and reload the page. Unfortunately this is a time consuming process reloading the page all the time. Does anybody else save time by reloading…
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Which strategy to choose when you do not have enough time to complete the project?

You work on an important project that contains 7 independent modules, and you do not have enough time to finish the project in time. In front of you is a choice: to complete 3 modules in full or to start work on all the 7 modules in parallel, but…
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Good Gantt-diagram software?

I have multiple projects on my own, each one with a deadline and a (personal) estimate of the time that I should invest to get the thing done. At a particular time I can be involved in multiple projects. What I need is a software that lets me plan…
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The effects of design on application delivery time

Some developers when given a task go straight into the IDE and start coding with very little design. They may have an idea of where the application is going as they are coding. I am 1 of these developers. I do this because I feel that if I spend a…
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Javascript discontinuous stacked bar graph

I am trying to plot daily tasks in what i would describe as a discontinuous stacked bar graph. Another description would be a vertical gantt chart of past events. If the description is lacking, the result i want is something like that shown in the…
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Need a time management solution

I'm looking for a pc app that runs in the background and collates simple information about applications im running. Hopefully including the opened project (whereby visual studio includes the title of the project in the window title). Also if it…
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How to fix java spring mvc web application run time in Apache Tomcat 6 server?

I developed an web application using java spring mvc. Now i want to deploy the application on tomcat server and want the application to run in a certain period of time in a day. Say, the application will run from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM everyday and…
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Which Project Management Software is adequate for Software & Non-Software Projects?

PMS = (Project Management Software) I used trac for software development some time ago. Right now I'm searching for a new more powerful (scheduling, gantt charts, ...) free solution (as in free beer ;-) and free to install on my server) for my…
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Android Programming execute function at determined time

I am developing a project in Android and I would like to do the following: at a time determined by the user, like 15:40 for example, I would call a function to change the cellphone to silent mode. How can I set it so this function would be called…
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In using OpenErp 7 or Odoo 8, how do I modify it such that a manager assigned to a project is the one who will approve all timesheet entries for it?

I have downloaded and installed and also tested via a virtual machine online Odoo 8 and OpenErp 7. I have spent many hours tinkering with the apps and features of both. I am unable to find any way from hours I spend searching or tinkering for a…
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