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• In search for the perfect Entertainment Unit

  Posted on 14 June 2011 • Tagged with design

  A techies guide to find the perfect entertainment unit

• Web apps UI trends

  Posted on 11 July 2011 • Tagged with design

• Promises Promises web app

  Posted on 22 July 2011 • Tagged with design

  A suggestion for a web app to follow, record, and rate politicians integrity, truthfulness and accountability.

• Serial Progress Bar for ASP.NET 3.5

  Posted on 1 August 2011 • Tagged with dev

  A guide to create an ASP.NET 3.5 serial progress barr

• Multi-OS/device Task Management with toodledo

  Posted on 6 September 2011 • Tagged with productivity

  Finally I found a way to sync my tasks between iOS and Android

• Productivity Services 101

  Posted on 20 September 2011 • Tagged with productivity

  By definition productivity tools or services must help us be more productive. So what kind of applications do we need in order to be more productive. Here’s a list that tools that help me.

• Nobody’s perfect when it comes to pixels

  Posted on 28 September 2011 • Tagged with design dev

  So it seems that even big old mighty Google makes mistakes on its UI.

• Tag your plug

  Posted on 21 October 2011 • Tagged with productivity

  Being productive involves all aspects of life, whether its how you manage your tasks to how you manage your cables

• Power by simplicity with ifttt

  Posted on 31 October 2011 • Tagged with productivity

  With ifttt.com you can create tasks depending triggers from various channels on the basis of “If this then that”. Sounds very basic … and it is.

• Getting Organized with Evernote

  Posted on 10 April 2012 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  Evernote is an application, or better yet a service, where you can collect or create notes from a variety of sources, organize them, and retrieve them whenever you want (again from a variety of sources).

• Getting Organized with Evernote – GTD Methodology

  Posted on 11 April 2012 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  A guide on how Get Things Done with Evernote.

• Getting Organized with Evernote – GTD Task Management

  Posted on 12 April 2012 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  A guide to implement GTD Task management with the help of Evernote.

• Evernote Working Example – Business Meeting 1

  Posted on 24 April 2012 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  How to use Evernote in real life, specifically for business meetings

• Evernote Working Example – Business Meeting 2

  Posted on 4 May 2012 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  How to use Evernote in real life, specifically for business meetings, in more detail 😊

• Evernote – Life Work Balance

  Posted on 23 May 2012 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  How Evernote can help on resting and worrying less about your Task list

• Fast GTD with Doit.im

  Posted on 9 July 2012 • Tagged with productivity

  Doit.im seems like a great candidate for our GTD needs. Lets take a look

• Evernote – Project Master Note Template

  Posted on 8 November 2012 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  I have come to realize the importance of Master Notes, a notion that is talked extensively on Daniel E. Gold’s book “Guide To Capturing Everything and Getting Things Done”. In this post I am presenting the template I am using for Project Master Notes.

• Evernote – Business Taveling Master Note Template

  Posted on 19 November 2012 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  Further on the whole notion of Master notes described on Daniel E. Gold’s book “Guide To Capturing Everything and Getting Things Done”, I have created a template that I use for business traveling which I am presenting in this post

• How to make your life easy at the airport

  Posted on 6 December 2012 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  So here I am on another business trip. I have learned some stuff about traveling and making my life easier with the right accessories and technology, and so I thought I’d share my knowledge.

• Evernote for ITs – Remote Desktops

  Posted on 31 January 2013 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  Taking advantage of the premium feature of attaching any file type on Evernote, you can create a single note to help you manage your servers (via Remote Desktops).

• Evernote – Control your data

  Posted on 15 March 2013 • Tagged with evernote

  Take control of your Evernote data and make sure that your data can survive a possible stoppage or attack.

• Schedule stuff with PHP

  Posted on 11 October 2013 • Tagged with dev

  I needed a way to schedule notifications with PHP so I turned to the Internet and made a quick search. I couldn’t find a nice post on the subject so I thought I’d make one hoping to help a little bit.

• DIY organization tool – cocoon Grid-It ripoff

  Posted on 23 October 2013 • Tagged with diy

  My DIY project turning an old CD case into an ugly Grid-it rip off.

• Eisenhower Matrix with Evernote

  Posted on 13 October 2014 • Tagged with productivity evernote

  I recently talked with a friend of mine that uses the Eisenhower Matrix technique and I though why not do that with Evernote.

• PRINCE2 Project Management with Google Sheets

  Posted on 13 October 2014 • Tagged with dev google-sheets

  I thought it would be nice to setup some Google Sheets to better manage the project. The idea was to create all my PRINCE2 Registers and Logs on Google Sheets and then have a Dashboard like Sheet (as in the picture above) to easily review the Project and create my Reports (such as Highlight reports). It all seems to have worked out nicely for me, so I thought I’d share my setup.

• Gmail Issue Tracking System

  Posted on 8 February 2015 • Tagged with productivity

  A quick walk through how I turned Gmail into a tracking system

• PHP PDO Connect Everywhere

  Posted on 24 February 2015 • Tagged with dev

  We all know how cool PHP is. What is even cooler is using PHP with PDO to connect to … well basically everywhere.

• PHP Notificator

  Posted on 25 February 2015 • Tagged with dev

  We have been looking for an easy way to programmatically send email notifications to customers and came up with small php application to do just that.

• Getting on top of things with MonitrAll

  Posted on 29 December 2016 • Tagged with dev productivity

  Had to create platform to administer and monitor our crazy IT environments, called it MonitrAll

• Trello Kanban like Board for Issues and Tasks Tracking

  Posted on 7 January 2018 • Tagged with dev trello

  I have been experimenting with Trello with my coworkers and I found that using a Kanban like Boards for our organization’s IT issues, was working for us, so I thought I’d write about it.

• Online search registry (cRegistry)

  Posted on 17 April 2018 • Tagged with dev

  Recently I had a chance to create an online search system which can basically connect to any database type and search and display information. I tried to make the system as configurable as possible and it should be easy to adapt in any business environment so I thought I’d share my work. I called my system cRegistry (supposed to stand for Common Registry) :-).

• Google Sheets script for Trello

  Posted on 23 August 2018 • Tagged with dev google-sheets trello productivity

  I thought it might be interesting to have a Google Sheet with all the Trello Cards. I started working on it and I ended up with an interesting script and Google Sheet template, so I thought I’d share it with the world.

• Google Sheets Script for email report

  Posted on 26 August 2018 • Tagged with dev google-sheets productivity

  A general purpose script to send the emails from contents of a specific sheet. When combining the script, with Google Spreadsheet build in functions and event triggers (in my case Time Driven triggers), you can pretty much automate any kind of report you like.

• Google Sheets Script for Web Apps

  Posted on 1 March 2019 • Tagged with dev google-sheets productivity

  Another Google App Script to show HTML as a web app following the same rules as in my previous post.

• Getting Organized with Google Sheets – Everything in one place

  Posted on 3 March 2019 • Tagged with dev google-sheets productivity

  A nice hack on how to Get Organized with Google Sheets and have Everything in one place.

• Intellectual and Industrial Property eServices

  Posted on 14 July 2019 • Tagged with dev pwa

  Take a look at the brand new site of the Intellectual and Industrial Property of the Department of the Registrar of Companies and Official Receiver of Cyprus (DRCOR).

• Google Sheets script for Trello V2

  Posted on 16 July 2019 • Tagged with google-sheets trello dev productivity

  Since I have posted the Google Sheets script for Trello I made some updates to include members assigned to card and customfields value (power-up), so I thought I’d share the code.

• Why I made my app a PWA

  Posted on 26 July 2019 • Tagged with dev pwa

  A walk through why I developed the Intellectual and Industrial Property eServices app as a Progressive Web App (or simply PWA).

• How I made my app a PWA

  Posted on 29 July 2019 • Tagged with dev pwa

  A guide on through how I turned my last app into a PWA.

• How I made my wordpress a PWA

  Posted on 31 July 2019 • Tagged with dev pwa wordpress

  I discovered that it is fairly simple to convert your wordpress into a Progressive Web App, so I thought I’d share my experience

• GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Pages

  Posted on 27 August 2019 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  In this post I will try and explain how to deploy a simple javascript application on GitLab pages, using Continuous Deployment with a live working example.

• GitLab CI/CD and React Tests

  Posted on 27 September 2019 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  An example of Continuous Integration, this time with unit testing react components.

• Designing the Design System (by DSF)

  Posted on 15 February 2023 • Tagged with dsf design dev

  The way the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus creates consistent, clean, accessible and intuitive user experience throughout the services.

• How to create a page using the gov.cy design system (by DSF)

  Posted on 15 February 2023 • Tagged with dsf design dev

  A step-by-step guide for developers, from the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus, on how to create a simple question page using DSF's reusable components.

• How to create new design elements using the utility classes (by DSF)

  Posted on 16 February 2023 • Tagged with dsf design dev

  A step-by-step guide for developers, from the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus, on how to create a brand new HTML design element using the gov.cy utility classes.

• Writing a good README file

  Posted on 6 May 2023 • Tagged with dev

  Documentation is a key for any coding project and the README file is a big part of it. In this article you can find some best practices on how to write a good README file.

• How to use the Figma community library file to design digital services (by DSF)

  Posted on 24 August 2023 • Tagged with dsf design figma

  A short post from the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus, on how to use their Figma community library file to design digital services as per our Design System.

• Improving Accessibility: Lessons from making design elements screen reader-friendly (by DSF)

  Posted on 23 January 2024 • Tagged with dsf design accessibility

  A post from the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus, on how DSF tried to evolve the screen reader capabilities of their components.

• gov.cy Design System update (V.3.0.0) – Unified Design System

  Posted on 7 August 2024 • Tagged with dsf design accessibility

  A post, about the release from Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus of version 3.0.0 of the gov.cy design system. This is a total redesign of the design system, with branding and styling changes, updated and new components, to accommodate both services and websites.

• Automating accessibility: Site-wide testing and reporting guide

  Posted on 23 December 2024 • Tagged with dev accessibility eleventy ci-cd

  Enhance your website's accessibility with automated testing and reporting. This guide walks you through the process of setting up and running accessibility checks across your site.

• Enhancing the Unified Design System with automated visual testing (by DSF)

  Posted on 8 January 2025 • Tagged with dsf design dev ci-cd

  How DSF uses Percy to perform automatic visual regression testing, to improve the quality of the Unified Design System and provide a more reliable user experience

• Building a Dynamic HTML Renderer with Nunjucks and JSON Templates

  Posted on 24 January 2025 • Tagged with dev dsf ci-cd

  An overview on how a dynamic HTML renderer (gocvy-frontend-renderer) works

• Why release versioning matters: A Guide to SemVer and automated publishing

  Posted on 3 February 2025 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  A look on why versioning matters, how Semantic Versioning (SemVer) works and how to implement an automated versioning workflow for products intended to be used by external teams and developers

• Creating a reliable software release policy

  Posted on 9 February 2025 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  A look at the key aspects of a release policy and a practical checklist for seamless, high-quality software releases.

• Managing multi repository products with GitHub projects

  Posted on 20 February 2025 • Tagged with dev productivity

  How to efficiently manage a multi-repository product using GitHub Projects.

• govcy-frontend-prototype: A dynamic prototype tool

  Posted on 4 March 2025 • Tagged with dev dsf design

  A tool that builds functional prototypes for gov.cy services, using data instead of code.