On 2/3/06, ryanm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The bottom line, though, is that you answered your own question. After > you spent a few hours making sense of exactly what you wanted to > accomplish, > you found a much better way to do it. The question you need to ask is if > you > can put those couple hours at the beginning of the project, and skip over > the whole first draft completely. Two hours up front to save you 8 hours > of > writing code that will end up in the trash anyway is a 63% increase in > efficiency (assuming it took 8 hours both times you wrote it). It *more* > than cuts your development time in half, because you spent those 2 hours > working out how to build the thing either way. And I'll bet it was much > faster to write the second time (when you really knew what you wanted to > accomplish and how to accomplish it), too, wasn't it?
Yes, it was faster. It took less than 1 hr from coding to uploading. Spending 10hrs writing codes that eventually ended in trash is a bitter experience. Reading your post, I now understand what they mean by "Fail to plan is plan to fail" -- Anggie Bratadinata Graphic|Web|Flash Jl. Raya Langsep 21 Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A www.ibshastautama.com www.nextrand.co.id _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
