interruptions

Managing interruptions with increased seniority...

As developers advance in seniority, they are more frequently the "go-to" person for questions from business people, other developers, and other teams. As we know, interruptions have a devastating impact on programming productivity. How do people deal with this? Do you give up on the idea of writing code yourself and see your job as a ...

Do you have a physical "developer busy" indicator ?

At my workplace, it has been suggested that each developer is given the opportunity to indicate to his peers that he is busy and cannot be disturbed. This would be done in order to ensure that you don't get disturbed, when you are "in the zone". Do you think this is a good idea ? Do you have anything like that at your workplace ? I am...

Java, replacement for infinite loops?

I am making a program that shows cellular growth through an array. I have gotten it so when I press the start button, the array updates every 10 seconds in a while(true){} loop. The problem with that is I want to be able to stop the loop by pressing the pause button, but while in the loop, it wont let me use any of the controls. I need s...

Can NSUserDefaults be used for pausing the application during a phone call ?

Friends, currently I dont have iphone to test and using Simulator for testing purposes. I am Just curious to know whether an application continues to run even after a phone call.. here i have no option to test this from simulator. If it terminates then how can i pause things.. and continue after a phone call. Is NSUserDefaults can be us...