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Overcoming coder's block
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:06 pm
by aaronhall
I came across
this today. Wondering what your remedy is.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:18 pm
by Kieran Huggins
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

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:27 pm
by feyd
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:28 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Stupid-@$$ internet filters. I gotta check this out at home.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:27 pm
by seodevhead
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:49 pm
by RobertGonzalez
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:30 pm
by feyd
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.

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:59 pm
by Ollie Saunders
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:01 pm
by Kieran Huggins
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

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:42 am
by jyhm
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!

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:23 am
by Chris Corbyn
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
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

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:15 am
by RobertGonzalez
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

How many times have I gone through that?!?!?!

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:26 am
by Kieran Huggins
This place is turning into the other kind of support group
Welcome to "Developers Anonymous"!
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:37 pm
by jyhm
Enlighten the rest of use what is so bad about DHTML menus? Is it because of all the javascript?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:41 pm
by daedalus__
I remember participating in the former Coder's Block thread. I believe it was Ninja Space Goat that started it.
EDIT:
It was Ninja.
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