Last morning of real work bar the tomorrow annual desk tidying, today it snowed code in my world. There has been a lot I had to do and for some reason today it came in one dribble into php. Made me think how frustrating coding really is. You can spend days bashing your head against something and then you have those days like today. Those days when you write code as you would english and everything works first time. In under two hours I managed to get out a calendar script, news script and various bolt ons for my cms system.
I guess if I didn’t have these kind of days I would probably have jumped out of a building long before now. So these code lucid days maybe some kind of code god karmic gift for all those times you thought your brain might explode or dribble out through your ears. I know I’m not alone in this kind of coding episodes – it seems quite a common experience of the world of scripting. Just sometimes I wished I hadn’t got the knack of this happening right at the last minute. Today was proof for this as I finished 10 minutes before the time to go off as the office was prepared for a christmas quiz (best not to ask really).
Another aside, something that really annoys me is the assumption that because you went to university you are all knowing. Whoever came up with this really has a rather jaded view. I would contest that some of the most intelligent people I have met were not university graduates. Judging by the amount of brain cells most of us attempt to murder during our university binges I doubt if this would hold up as intelligence evidence. Apparently because we had a team of university graduates we were meant to win the bizarre quiz – funny how we only came second there. Proof of my rather early christmas pudding me thinks.
