In the past I have used rescue time from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rescuetime.com%2F

It lets you mark any program or website either as productive or non productive on a five point scale.
Then you can enable focus mode and it will disallow you any of the non productive things you do.

Also it gives you great insight in where you are spending your time, for example you can see if those e-mails really take that much of your time away.
Using tools like this is said to improve your productivity about 15% just by creating awareness you are going to be more focused.

The linux integration is not official supported and not so good at the time, but it works really good on a Mac or Windows. Also on multiple machines or virtual machines at the same time. I think they also have mobile clients.

And as others have suggested try to become a advanced user of the pomodoro technique: http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/download/pdf/ThePomodoroTechnique_v1-3.pdf

Thanks this looks great, just what I needed.

This sounds like a nice weekend project, wonder how fast you can fill up a harddisk with just some javascript.

I have played the game back in 2010, then I thought it was already a great game, but I only play games casually due to the lack of time mostly. Playing 10 dollars each month for only a couple of hours seems pretty steep.

I really like the new MMO business models like Planetside 2, where its free to play, but the paying does not screws the balance of the game, just buys you time or less grind as i see it..

I understood clearly, just wanted to illustrate why I don't like e-mail and why I do like short face-to-face updates.
Also just because you can't derive all the context you need from a text message as we noticed in this short comment conversation.

But I guess you couldn't care less. ;-) have nice weekend.

E-mail? Whaaa, help! You mean everyone CCing me more bullshit. Not more e-mail, please! E-mail is really the biggest productivity killer ever, or is it PowerPoint?

If life was only that simple. Often people are too proud to ask for help, they think they can find the solution themselves even if it takes them some more days.
Of course you fire the lazy fucks, but sometimes its hard to spot that some is not really productive, certainly if management has no clue what developers are doing.
I saw many small companies where developers (or other personal) are telling their boss, this and that, and thus and so. But in the end they deliver nothing.
This is an issue with the managers, just trying to saying its not so easy as you describe. Shame it isn't, but it just isn't.

True, I am really sorry.

The "Daily Stand-up" is a way to monitor the sprints progress and adjust the sprint accordingly to make sure the sprint goal is met at the end of the sprint. If someone is stuck on a task for a day, maybe he needs help. Also its harder to hide and do nothing for a week, telling the same bullshit story everyday gets old very quick. Agile is about team work and team's need to know what everyone is doing to meet a team goal.

From your comment I read you are a loner, you don't care what others are doing, you don't work in a team.
I think you are doing something wrong if you think you work in a Agile environment, by just doing Daily's.

Still I wonder why you can't spend 15 minutes a day with your fellow colleagues. I seem to like social interactions...

You don't have to use the real answer to these questions. Its just another password, but one with a hint.
Now that I am thinking of it, time to change all the security questions to the same hard to guess answer.

Maybe its not to please the die hard linux community, but its great for the average linux Joe.
I would love to play the steam games (LFD2 for example) I own under Linux.

Personally I think crossplatform game developement should be the norm and bringing steam to every platform might help.

Being a good hacker is fine, but acting like a cowboy (someone who is reckless or irresponsible) when putting code in to production isn't.

Creating quick and dirty solutions can give you great insights, implementing them that way in production environments will bite you in the ass later on.

Yeah! Hetzner is great. You can cancel the contract per month. So just try it for a month for 8 euro and if you dont like cancel it.

I have been using for about a year now. Its stable,fast and has a very easy webinterface for reinstalling your OS if needed.

I suggest you fund a noble project to crowd fund. This way you can also monitor what is happening with your money. And if you really invest in something you might even have a small influence of where this project is heading. Companies are often way more transparent then charity is.

Personally I put some money in the www.wakawakalight.com project, which is designing cheap solar powered lights for the third world. You can either buy equity at www.symbid.com or donate at www.kickstarter.com

Rob Malda is Steve Jobs, makes way more sence...

Yeah, for this guy you at-least know what he does when you piss him off. Other IT managers might do the same or worse (delete all your files and backups), but you wouldn't be prepared for it.

Also i think he will have learned a bit from this and might have better control over gis emotions next time :)