Are you code obsessed?

[Jeremy Falcon]

Chris Maunder wrote:

So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally?

When you're in the zone, time just fades away.

Jeremy Falcon

[Dave Kreskowiak]

It gets worse than that. Are you to the point where you can "see" the code behind an application while using it? At least how you would have written it. Talk about being unable to unplug...

Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles. Dave Kreskowiak

[Lost User]

A pattern starts to emerge in the code, and I have to "fix" it everywhere. (Make it a component, for example) Or the code "smells"; but not sure what to do. "Unplugging" lets the subconscious work on it. (I just completed a user control that integrates 12 syncronized ListViews ... which consolidated 4 loosely related Windows. A master cross-reference of sorts for my app. The itching has stopped for now).

"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

[jhaga]

Yes, all the time. I just take a break to exercise or take walk with the dog. If I do something else, I can't wait to go back to coding... I've been doing it for 30 Years now.

jhaga

[RickZeeland]

Not at the moment, I'm caught in the "Authenticode maze", really unbelievable how many hoops we have to jump to get our building pipeline working again with the new certificates. :sigh:

[MarkTJohnson]

Do they keep adding new scanning tools too? New tools that pick up the same "errors" that the previous scanning tool picked up but was addressed as not exploitable in the previous scanning tools database that we now have to re-address as not exploitable to the new scanning tool?

I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.

[Chris Maunder]

Yes. Everytime I use a broken website. It makes me scream

cheers Chris Maunder

[Chris Maunder]

Yeah. It's an awesome feeling

cheers Chris Maunder

[Kdiggins]

Be assured, the pull will weaken with each passing year. It weakens quicker when we realize that the things that once dominated our attention and curiosity are becoming less relevant.

[Roger Wright]

Not with code so much, but I do experience this with other things work related. Being now the manager and sole full-time employee of a small Tribal utility company with electrical, generation, PV arrays and batteries, as well as water and wastewater distribution, collection, and treatment systems to worry about, there are a lot of nights like that. But when it's time to add some SCADA to the system, I'm sure some code will be joining the fray.

Will Rogers never met me.

[Daniel Pfeffer]

I don't know about obsession, but some code has left me with PTSD. :)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

[RickZeeland]

Haven't got around to scanning tools, just preparing builder scripts (mostly DOS batch files) for the new "Signing PC" with the USB dongle where the signing and packaging now must take place, and trying to figure out how we can automate signing. Waded through reams of documentation on the CA's website without finding anything useful, but an article on StackOverflow looks promising ...

[CPallini]

Refactoring could be obsessive for me, kind of: "it works, but I really have to fix it".

"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

[kmoorevs]

I'm currently being pushed hard on a new project...we had a progress meeting late Friday afternoon and they want to schedule the next one (I've just been told) for early this week! :omg: Oh, you mean tomorrow? :wtf: This was the first weekend in 8 weeks that I didn't work on that project...I needed a break. :sigh: So I spent the weekend installing Win10 on a new SSD in an 8 y/o laptop for a friend. That was fun. Then I hooked up a new domain name I got last month to an Azure server that's been dormant for awhile now...might as well use it for something. That was complicated, but somehow it works. :laugh: Even after a weekend away from it, I woke up at 5AM thinking that a simple datatbase schema change could solve one of my current challenges. I then spent the rest of the morning trying to get some sleep while dualing dueling personalities presented the pros and cons of that approach in an internal debate went on for the rest of the morning. Is that obsessed? :laugh:

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"

[pkfox]

All the time Chris, and occasionally I dream the fix for a problem

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[Richard Andrew x64]

I wouldn't call it obsessed. I would call it addicted. If you find that you're doing this to the exclusion of other activities you used to enjoy, then I would be concerned.

The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

[GKP1992]

Chris Maunder wrote:

and my own short attention span (squirrel!)

I suffer from this issue. Getting any significant work done usually takes me about twice as long, due to which I usually burn the midnight oil just to stay competitive with my peers. I wonder how have you handled yourself and if you can share some insight. Thanks.

[BernardIE5317]

Not quite as much. Also you are fortunate. I have on occasion raised my arms in exaltation upon some final success.

[Bruno van Dooren]

I was. But I detoxed. I still love coding. But it no longer usurps my life.

[ChandraRam]

On this site... is this a trick question? :)

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche