November 0807
I'd like to begin by quoting a recent post by Jeremy D. Miller entitled "There's nothing worse..."
…than being a developer who leaves the office with a pernicious coding
problem unsolved – mostly due to working with a technology I’m not
familiar with. I spent a couple hours at the end of the day trying to
make some new test automation code work to no avail. Leaving work
without solving the issue just leaves a very sour taste in my mouth. I
fired up my computer and took another hour and a half to finally solve
my problem this evening. I wasted a night, but at least I feel calmer
heading into the bedtime hours.
I can't count the number of times I've left the office with a problem unsolved - sometimes because I've bitten off slightly more than I can chew, or because of a ridiculous request that arrived at 17:24 that I should just have time to do. Often the answer to the problem hits me as I sign out of the building or on my way home, sometimes I'll solve the problem as I'm watching TV. But... too many times I've gone to bed mulling the problem over in my head; which must make for some interesting dreams, sure I will wake up at 2am with the answer - so I now sleep with a notepad by the bed and have taught myself to write in the dark, because the alternative is forgetting by the morning or waking up thinking I solved the problem or did I just dream I solved the problem, or did I solve the problem in a dream?
I'm not alone in this am I?
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