Who codes for pleasure outside of work?

dan g 0

I know (or suspect) that a lot of CP'ers also code as a hobby just for the pleasure of creating something, as I do. After all, that's probably where most of the articles come from. However, in my workplace it seems that only 2 out of a total of 14 developers do so. So what are the numbers like in your workplace? BTW, I can see that it might be possible to mine CP for the number of unique authors out of the total member count, but I couldn't find the data...

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Pete OHanlon

In spite of trying to convert my minions to the joy of coding for fun, and even actively taking part in CP, alas I'm the only one in the firm who codes outside. This might have something to do with the amount of time I don't get to code at work.

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Septimus Hedgehog

I do. I've produced around 200 sample projects demonstrating how to do things and they've made my life much easier as they're a valuable source of reference and how-to tips, etc. Coding is my living so it's nice to have the time after hours if I want to tinker with something. My current flavour of the month is sockets, encryption and PLC development.

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Marco Bertschi

Well, I do. Sometimes when I want to and have time for it. But actually, a wise CPian[^] told upcoming programmers the following thing:

Pete O'Hanlon

First of all, get yourself a life outside of computers. I know it's odd hearing this from somebody who spends so much time on Code Project, but you need to have interests outside of coding; trust me, perspective makes you a better coder. I am a husband and father first and foremost, a guitarist second, and a coder third.

Well, he pretty much nailed it. It is good if you enjoy programming, but you need something else to do to get a work/life balance. I hang out a lot at the local bar, I go running frequently and I do coding work. And the coding thing is only successful because I do other stuff, too.

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Guirec

Marco Bertschi wrote:

I hang out a lot at the local bar, I go running frequently and I do coding work

Almost the same here: I go running at the local bar, I do coding frequently and I hang out a lot at work

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Nagy Vilmos

Here it's ∞%. I code for fun but no one is working. :sigh:

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RugbyLeague

I used to - but very rarely these days

Shao Voon Wong

.dan.g. wrote:

So what are the numbers like in your workplace?

There is only 1 - 2 coders in my country (Singapore), who still contribute article to CodeProject. Most of my colleagues just dun bother to even read up on the technologies they are using. They google whenever they hit a problem.

Shao Voon Wong

You are right. Recently, I have cancelled all 10 articles I planned to write. My speed of generating article ideas is much faster than I could write to fulfill. Now only focusing on writing small tip/trick. Life/health is important. Currently training for my run in July.

Lost User

That's all I do at the moment :) It has the benefit that you can play around with fundamental problems, instead of solving inconsequential business problems that, when solved, have no intrinsic value but only happen to generate money for The Boss.

Garth J Lancaster

I (try) to ... but, thats because Ive been on the redeployment list at my current employer for ~2.5 years, and would like to morph into something else - it means I can keep a couple of other options open 'g'

Matthew Faithfull

I code for pleasure all the time, when the politics isn't taking priority. Sometimes I find some nice people who are willing to pay me to do pretty much what I would be doing anyway and to provide me with hardware and coffee on tap to help do it, even other people to do the bits I'm not so good at; and people say that no one cares anymore :-D

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Amr Abdel Majeed

When i used to work at a software company, maybe 50-80 % of developers coded for fun or profit outside of their daily jobs, those were the good times. Now i work at a bank, making (a lot) more money, but there is no in-house development, we rely on vendors for everything. I code outside of work to keep my sanity, but apparently i'm the only one here who does that ... sigh :(

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hairy_hats

Only fun maker projects - Arduino, Pi and the like. Haven't done a big home coding project for many years.

PIEBALDconsult

Not as much as I used to. :( Darn, you Netflix!!

Lost User

or possibly because they have a life? (I code out of work too, as I don't have a life)

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Maximilien

I don't; I think there might be one in the office who does (linux/perl stuff). I have to many things to do (and not do) outside of work to keep me entertained. BUT, I read and keep in touch with technologies via the internet.

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gavindon

Where I work we have 100% of the developers that do stuff on their own after hours. Of course, since I am the only developer, that might skew your numbers a little bit... :-D

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Clark Kent123

I enjoy learning new technologies. Sometimes at work I have rare opportunities where I am able to learn new tools which I enjoy very much. Since these opportunities are too few I tend to learn something new at home if the technology is something I have a strong interest in. My current interest is the mobile app market. I have started with the Android OS and curious to see where I go from there.

dan g 0

:laugh:

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