Who codes for pleasure outside of work?

[Nagy Vilmos]

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

Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol

[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

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

[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 :(

Amr Abdel Majeed Software Developer

[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.

Nihil obstat

[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

Treat stressful situations like a dog, if you can't eat it, play with it or screw it, then just piss on it and walk away. Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.

[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:

.dan.g. AbstractSpoon Software
email: abstractspoon2(at)optusnet(dot)com(dot)au

[dan g 0]

I totally agree. I also paint, meditate and practice yoga, but hobby programming forms a large part of expressing my creativity. It really feeds my soul if you know what I mean.

.dan.g. AbstractSpoon Software
email: abstractspoon2(at)optusnet(dot)com(dot)au