Background noise

It is the best medicine for those who are working alone. Although I’m not technically working alone, but I do feel that when I’m working. So I like some background noise all the time, no music, just movies. So I can get away from those weight loss pills emails and really really focus on the tasks I have in hand.

I have a few season of Hero, full set of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, a season of House. All those has been repeated 1234 times, so I hook up with YouTube :D Let’s check out what I watched:

As you can see, I just clicked on the related videos and the movie will just go forever :D No Facebook, no Twitter, no 9gag, those movies are enough :)

Get WP header working

Recently made the decision to shift from adding own logo to using the built-in header. I used to have the uploading in theme options for better editing when installing the theme. However, it comes to my concern that, not everyone has the idea of cropping, not to mention, Photoshop it.

Placing the graphic editing of WordPress to theme option is a bunch of work and of course resource taking if not develop properly. So the header it is.

First off, define the size and text, here I got no header text, force to use logo:

define('NO_HEADER_TEXT', true );
define('HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH', 400);
define('HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT', 140);

Then add the function, I still hate WordPress don’t built that in first for us to eliminate instead.

add_custom_image_header( 'header_style', 'admin_header_style' );

Now we need to create both function (header_style and admin_header_style):

function header_style() {
if( '' != get_header_image() ) : ?>
<style type="text/css">
.header-title {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
text-indent: -9999px;
width: <?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>px;
height: <?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>px;
background-image: url(<?php header_image(); ?>);
}
</style>
<?php endif; }

function admin_header_style() { }

Depending on your CSS, I use .header (for a H1 tag) for the site name. The whole thing:

define('NO_HEADER_TEXT', true );
define('HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH', 400);
define('HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT', 140);

add_custom_image_header( 'header_style', 'admin_header_style' );

function header_style() {
if( '' != get_header_image() ) : ?>
<style type="text/css">
.header-title {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
text-indent: -9999px;
width: <?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>px;
height: <?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>px;
background-image: url(<?php header_image(); ?>);
}
</style>
<?php endif; }
function admin_header_style() { }

Custom header

Now it has cropping function to have the exact logo size that will not distort the layout. Easier for explanation and documentation too.

Meeting is about a conclusion not need

Meeting, I think a lot of people attended before. The main reason is to get a conclusion at the end of the day. Usually, the more people sitting in the table will lead to longer meeting hours, eventually spending more time in the room than getting a job done. Discussing Quality Assurance Specialist Jobs shouldn’t involve all employee, the same with most decision. That is why we have managers to discuss with his/her team and come to meeting alone, not the whole team.

Meeting

I do meeting, although only 2 persons, but it worth the time (little time with firm decision) to solve problems and create timeline. As usual, meeting don’t come with one-time only, it comes with a lot just to get into one particular problem. When another new person joined in on second meeting, the time will push again.

That’s why I don’t really like meeting, beside a maximum of 3 persons meeting. If second meeting comes another new person, I will try my best not to waste the time in the room, as it will only prolong whatever we already have in hand.

To have a good meeting, one need to be very firm of who, what and then.

“Who” is going to responsible for that, don’t matter how many people, the point is, those who responsible must be in the room together all the time, doesn’t matter how many meeting going to need. Because a conclusion comes with one-time inputs, not many times. “What” is the main thing the meeting is about. And “Then” the step to take to solve that agenda.