> I know the feeling....I like working when there's just > me and the PD (Puppy Dawg) here. Nobody to ask me > stupid questions, no client interruptions, just me and > my music and snoozing dog.
When I'm working a 9-5 job I have a tendancy to feel "stifled" or "stagnant" or just plain "unproductive" in response to frequent requirements to perform repetitive, non-developmental tasks, and/or a lot of what often seems to be what could have been easily avoidable bug fixing. Don't get me wrong -- when I'm at the office, I give 110% and it's not that I don't enjoy my job (most of the time). The issue is more one of dealing with the aftermath of software that's developed too quickly under client demand because it was sold before any product existed and scheduled without consultation of the people who do the work. In the long run that leads to situations like most of the places I've worked where the software is to a great extent sort of "spit-and-duct-taped" and ends up taking more time to repair than it would have taken to build well (note that I don't say correctly) the first time around. My own experiences seem to coincide with Cooper's comment in "the Inmates Are Running the Asylum" that for every dollar spent developing software, an average of $0.50 of the work is bad/wasted, and an average of $1.50 must be spent to repair that wasted $0.50. So companies developing software are spending somewhere between 200% and 300% of the amount they could be spending to develop the same software. So when I go home I spend a good deal of my time trying to create consistent, reuseable, flexible time-saving solutions to many of the most common tasks I perform. This is mostly with the hope that eventually my own work will reach a "critical mass" where I can start churning out small, well-designed applications quickly and stop working for other people, though to some extent it's also just to keep myself from getting too depressed about feeling in a rut during my day job. So then I get depressed about not having enough time to accomplish all my personal programming goals. :-/ s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:159043 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
