been busy
Released the major xhtml/css overhaul of Jambo's website, released version 3 of the rails app I spend most of my time trying to fix, and produced no less than 3 xhtml/css builds for another client. I never pictured myself as a code for 24 hours straight type of guy, but I've proven a half-dozen times in the last 2 months that I can and will subject myself to the torture of little sleep, little food, and LCD burned eyeballs. I feel like after a few more years of this I could maybe, tentatively, call myself a developer. I think you have to miss showering for a month and sleep under your desk to be called a programmer. You get to be a bona fide uber geek when you can claim with pride that you haven't seen the sun (anywhere but in a virtual world) for over 2 months.
I kinda dig the way my mind will become consumed by the inner workings of an application I'm working on. How thoughts of food and and other life sustaining concerns are forgotten, and in their place is installed an intimate knowledge of all the moving parts inside the code I'm desperately trying to understand more clearly and bend to my will. How I'll dream about how to re-write a method, or other ways of attacking a problem that took way too much time to solve.
It's also kinda cool to look at an error in the logs and actually know where to start looking to solve it, or why it happened.
I kinda dig the way my mind will become consumed by the inner workings of an application I'm working on. How thoughts of food and and other life sustaining concerns are forgotten, and in their place is installed an intimate knowledge of all the moving parts inside the code I'm desperately trying to understand more clearly and bend to my will. How I'll dream about how to re-write a method, or other ways of attacking a problem that took way too much time to solve.
It's also kinda cool to look at an error in the logs and actually know where to start looking to solve it, or why it happened.
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