Overcoming coder's block

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Overcoming coder's block

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I came across this today. Wondering what your remedy is.
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I hate coder's block. Constantly being interrupted by the Cat, gf, roommate, phone, email, rss, IM, etc is a real productivity killer!

My solution? work at 2am. Everyone's asleep :-)
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I go away from it all for a while: play a game, see a movie, play with a pet, play with a girlfriend, go driving, go drifting, whatever. Just get my mind off of it for a while.
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Stupid-@$$ internet filters. I gotta check this out at home.
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If I didn't code straight through my coder's block... I wouldn't have a line of code done at all. I live in a constant state of coders block, so I have no remedy. But if I had to make one up, I'd say a good walk around the neighborhood might be an answer. That is if it isn't raining. Or you can do the pill thing, thanks to the good folks at Pfizer.
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You know, I vaguely recall having asked this question once before (or was it answered this question?). Nevertheless, I think my answer last time was I tend to come here and sift through people's post that need help. Helping others seems to help clear my mental stoppages.
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Everah wrote:You know, I vaguely recall having asked this question once before (or was it answered this question?). Nevertheless, I think my answer last time was I tend to come here and sift through people's post that need help. Helping others seems to help clear my mental stoppages.
Yes, I remember this answer. :)

I'm not going to search out the thread though. :P
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Everah wrote:You know, I vaguely recall having asked this question once before (or was it answered this question?). Nevertheless, I think my answer last time was I tend to come here and sift through people's post that need help. Helping others seems to help clear my mental stoppages.
I do that. I'm not convinced it a good idea. But that might be a separate issue: motivation; where I'm just avoiding doing work and distracting myself with devnet. When I'm like that I usually like people with simple problems.

Thank aaron, that blog post was cool.
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I almost end up spending too much time on devnet these days! Quick and random little problem solving is like candy compared to multi-week / month projects.... a real stress reliever, but I know I should get more of my own work done :-)
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How about when you open a project for development/debugging and you can't even remember how you did something—with or without comments!

Or you look at your own project and say to yourself, 'Did I do this?'
Your eyes glaze over at the shier size of the project as you avoid it by checking email, logging onto devnetwork, etc,..

Maybe its just me! :lol:
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Kieran Huggins wrote:I almost end up spending too much time on devnet these days! Quick and random little problem solving is like candy compared to multi-week / month projects.... a real stress reliever, but I know I should get more of my own work done :-)
Yeah that's what I do. I'll be in hte middle of a huge project, head throbbing, I know what I need to do but it just seems so daunting so I'll drop on here for a while and answer some nice simple questions. You feel like you're being productive, you help a few others and you get to chill out a little bit. Then you go back and stress over your own code :P

I'm currently sat here building a DHTML menu... done it a hundred times before (well, maybe not), know what I'm doing but just can't quite convince my fingers it's worth putting in code :lol:
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d11wtq wrote:I'm currently sat here building a DHTML menu... done it a hundred times before (well, maybe not), know what I'm doing but just can't quite convince my fingers it's worth putting in code :lol:
How many times have I gone through that?!?!?! 8O
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

This place is turning into the other kind of support group :)

Welcome to "Developers Anonymous"!
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Enlighten the rest of use what is so bad about DHTML menus? Is it because of all the javascript?
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Post by daedalus__ »

I remember participating in the former Coder's Block thread. I believe it was Ninja Space Goat that started it.

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It was Ninja.

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