Lamest sounding "I can't wait to get back to coding" you've used lately.
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
Surely you mean Regular Expressions.
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
Yeah, it's fun. :thumbsup:
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
That’s the thing I think I’ve learned the most over my 30 years of IT Career: Coding is a lot of things and very little of it is actually coding. Probably 10% of your time (if that). I remember writing little C/C++ console programs that processed a text file or some little thing, and absolutely bristling with energy and excitement as I dreamed of programming for a career. And go back to the K&R C book and look at those beautiful little programs. So exciting and fun. But then it all gets buried under * Meetings * “Architecture” * Patterns * Agile Scrum and grooming backlogs * Email explanations * Dependency Injection Containers (only if you used them do you know the hidden code and magic and ugly debugging) * Documentation * OOP Design * bug hunting & fixing All the fun gets buried under the business somewhere I love some good old fashioned coding, start typing the thing up and let’s see what we can get working :rolleyes: But it don’t pay :laugh:
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Surely you mean Regular Expressions.
Don't tell Matthew. He'll lose it on me :D
cheers Chris Maunder
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
You know you really need an intervention when you're coding while you hate it. :~
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
Someone has said: 10% coding 90% error handling.
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
Man is defined by his projects.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Man is defined by his projects.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
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You know you really need an intervention when you're coding while you hate it. :~
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
No. I loves it :)
cheers Chris Maunder
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Surely you mean Regular Expressions.
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"That needs heavy refactoring!". :rolleyes:
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto
Throw it out and start fresh.
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
My wife sometimes complains about the amount of time I put in on the weekends, typically around 6-10 hours depending on what I need to get done vs. what SWMBO wants me to do...yard work, football game, etc. :sigh: There's been many hot afternoons while I'm doing yardwork/home chores and think to myself 'I can't wait for Monday!' :laugh: Disclaimer: I am self-employed and WFH, :) I've always liked working on the weekends with fewer distractions, often saving the more complex problems/fixes for that time. There's also the reward of going into the Monday morning conference call feeling ahead of the game.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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My understanding of Regular Expressions is that if you have a problem you're trying to solve with them, you end up with two problems. :laugh:
RegEx (well, non-trivial RegEx anyway) just doesn't fit my head - I'm just not wired that way . . That said, I had a great colleague around 30 years ago who's favorite response (when I explained a problem taking more than 5 minutes to do so) was "Yeah - that's two lines of PERL" . . Not even sure if I remembered the name of the language right, but if he reads this, he'll know, I'm sure . .
A few are great. I am small. Together we are the Universe.
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Throw it out and start fresh.
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
When I'm coding something new I'm happier than a pig in slop, as we say here in rural Ohio :-D . I spend a lot of my time locating and fixing bugs in software written by others, a consequence of our team shrinking from 17 to 4 and then back up to 6 over the last few years. This is frustrating as it takes hours of work identifying the problem, determining the solution (usually just a line or two), more hours verifying that the solution doesn't break something, and then test, test, test. Two large services in our current product were in a sorry state after being touched inappropriately by multiple people over time. I convinced my boss to let me do a rewrite on both. This has been wonderful on several fronts. Neither are UI code. Don't misunderstand, I'm a sickie and I like doing UI code. I just wanted to prove to myself I could do internals as well. Some of the implementation patterns in the original services are clunky, so I can improve those. The services are in C++ rather than the C#/WPF we use for our UI, so I'm refreshing some skills. The irony here is that working on these has become a refuge of sorts. I have some family issues going on, and the coding gives me something positive and satisfying to work toward.
Software Zen:
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I just caught myself saying I wanted to head back to the keyboard to knock out a issue with wildcard selectors while sanitising HTML generated from Markdown and had to stop and have a good hard talking to myself. This - THIS - is what you spend your life doing?? I love it, I really do, but the words really don't convey the excitement we all feel, right?
cheers Chris Maunder