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Ever have one of those days...

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:15 pm
by Nathaniel
WHERE YOU JUST WANT TO PULL YOUR HAIR OUT AND JUMP UP AND DOWN IN FRUSTRATION?

Wait, no no no, I meant:

Ever have one of those days where you sit back after an entire day of coding, designing or copywriting and you know, deep in your gut, that you've created your best work ever?

And you may show it to someone else, and they don't become all monkey-hyped because they can't see the finished product, as you can in your own mind. And it doesn't matter to you, because you are completely satisfied with your work and that's all that matters.

I had one of those days today.

:D

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:30 pm
by dude81
I had such a day when my Soap problem got solved.

Look at my waiting time. I waited whole day in the forum for somebody to reply and was keeping on going with my experiments as I was new to soap. I've gone through many tutorials in one whole day. Many website were talking about nusoap, but nusoap could have been much more difficult since I'm using a third party software.

I had the total day went with unrest and still no result. I came next day early trying to fix the problem. The solution volka gave I tried it before but with a wrong param value. I've again taken look at the wsdl file my service provider gave me. I was passing a wrong param. I tried with the exact one and it was WOW. The soap result worked for me for the first time in one day when I'm totally new to soap. Finally I made it work.

But for my team it didn't matter. But its okay since PHP is not their part.

Re: Ever have one of those days...

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:16 am
by jmut
Nathaniel wrote:.....

Ever have one of those days where you sit back after an entire day of coding, designing or copywriting and you know, deep in your gut, that you've created your best work ever?
....
I wish I could say that but I never get fully satisfied with what I did. As soon as I finish it I already see spots for improvement and I guess I cannot spend time just being happy for what I've accomplished. Sad but true. Luckily my boss does not see it that way and he is happy with what I do.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:48 am
by Chris Corbyn
I do :)

Sometimes I might be wrong though, it's not my *best* code. I like finishing something off and sitting back to admire it... laughable though it may be. I sort of believe I can "feel" the code. I can't really explain, but if it's good it feels rock solid, like you could pick it up, throw it around it'll stay in-tact. If I have the feeling that things are peeling at the edges or it's just a bit flimsy, somethings not right. OMG, how sad am I? I think I created a similar thread 6 months or so ago.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:16 am
by Nathaniel
d11wtq wrote:...I can't really explain, but if it's good it feels rock solid, like you could pick it up, throw it around it'll stay in-tact...
Yup, you know exactly what I mean. Great way of putting it :D

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:20 am
by RobertGonzalez
I have those feelings. Except I work with a team of geeks like me, so when I show them something they actually like what they see... in the code, not necessarily the output. The page may look exactly the same, but the code might be cleaner, or more modularized, or more optimized. And they do backflips with me.

As an example, I just got done building the first release of my company's online account management system. During the process I noticed that pages were loading a little slower than at first (at first they were loading in about 0.0020 seconds, whereas at this point there were loading at like 0.0850 seconds). I began to move all the database calls from the app into a data handling object, made some array creations a little more optimized and cross-method compatible, and the pages started loading in about 0.0100 seconds. No one else would have really been that thrilled about it, but my team was. That was a good feeling.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:27 am
by TheMoose
I have those days a lot recently, because as I'm working more and more on my website, I'm diving deeper into OOP and design patterns. Not only does it make me excited because I'm learning new things and understanding them, but because as I write code and it gets bugs, I am able to solve those problems and have it turn out exactly how I envisioned them as being.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:11 pm
by daedalus__
Whenever I code something that i consider my best work, I quickly find ways to improve it. lol

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:26 pm
by veridicus
I miss those days. Lately it's been stupid feature after stupid feature on web sites that I just don't care about for clients that just don't interest me. I need to come up with more innovative ideas for my own personal sites to have those days you're referring to again.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:52 pm
by Nathaniel
Everah wrote:I have those feelings. Except I work with a team of geeks like me, so when I show them something they actually like what they see... in the code, not necessarily the output. The page may look exactly the same, but the code might be cleaner, or more modularized, or more optimized. And they do backflips with me.
That must be sweet. I've never worked with a team before.
TheMoose wrote:I have those days a lot recently, because as I'm working more and more on my website, I'm diving deeper into OOP and design patterns. Not only does it make me excited because I'm learning new things and understanding them, but because as I write code and it gets bugs, I am able to solve those problems and have it turn out exactly how I envisioned them as being.
I remember when I test driven design first "clicked" with me - that was a very good feeling. And yes, I too am glad that the days (and long nights!) of finding bugs in spaghetti code are far from me!
veridicus wrote:I miss those days. Lately it's been stupid feature after stupid feature on web sites that I just don't care about for clients that just don't interest me. I need to come up with more innovative ideas for my own personal sites to have those days you're referring to again.
Yes, you should, veridicus! Take some Friday or Saturday off and just breathe innovation... it'll feel good. :)

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:41 pm
by alex.barylski
I think we have that feeling each time we do something repetitive...as you always do better the second time around, same applies to third, forth, fifth, etc...

Anyone who claims to have become an expert (according to Neils Bohr) would be foolish to say so, we never stop learning. :)

Glad you had a happy day, today i've done nothing but answer support queries :(