Comments on: Coding when you’re tired and unmotivated http://phildawes.net/blog/2007/07/23/coding-when-youre-tired-and-unmotivated/ Mostly programming with a few bits of other stuff Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:26:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: Arto Bendiken http://phildawes.net/blog/2007/07/23/coding-when-youre-tired-and-unmotivated/#comment-42041 Arto Bendiken Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:21:52 +0000 http://phildawes.net/blog/2007/07/23/coding-when-youre-tired-and-unmotivated/#comment-42041 I also do the 'IDEAS' file per project directory, except I call mine 'NOTES' :-) Agreed on all the points you mention, but I have one more that I've come to believe is crucial: source code revision control, even for personal projects. It doesn't matter whether one uses a local SVN repository, SVK, Darcs, Git, or whatever. But it does wonders for a steady, incremental sense of progress to check in code. Even if I have only 30 minutes to work on a pet project, when I check in the results of that I feel I've achieved something. The next time I continue on that particular project, I know I have the last known-good stable version safely backed up in the repository, and I can do whatever experiments I want; if I mess things up, I can just diff my latest changes to see where I screwed up, or even revert back to where I was. Does wonders for me. I also do the ‘IDEAS’ file per project directory, except I call mine ‘NOTES’ :-) Agreed on all the points you mention, but I have one more that I’ve come to believe is crucial: source code revision control, even for personal projects.

It doesn’t matter whether one uses a local SVN repository, SVK, Darcs, Git, or whatever. But it does wonders for a steady, incremental sense of progress to check in code. Even if I have only 30 minutes to work on a pet project, when I check in the results of that I feel I’ve achieved something.

The next time I continue on that particular project, I know I have the last known-good stable version safely backed up in the repository, and I can do whatever experiments I want; if I mess things up, I can just diff my latest changes to see where I screwed up, or even revert back to where I was. Does wonders for me.

]]> By: Phil Dawes http://phildawes.net/blog/2007/07/23/coding-when-youre-tired-and-unmotivated/#comment-42089 Phil Dawes Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:27:03 +0000 http://phildawes.net/blog/2007/07/23/coding-when-youre-tired-and-unmotivated/#comment-42089 Hi Arto, That's good advice. All my projects until recently have been shared and so I've had a cvs or svn repository to work with. I assumed that this one wouldn't attract any other coders (given that it's written in gambit scheme), but hadn't thought about just using a repository anyway. Time to crank up git. Cheers! Hi Arto,

That’s good advice. All my projects until recently have been shared and so I’ve had a cvs or svn repository to work with.
I assumed that this one wouldn’t attract any other coders (given that it’s written in gambit scheme), but hadn’t thought about just using a repository anyway. Time to crank up git.

Cheers!

]]> By: Arto Bendiken http://phildawes.net/blog/2007/07/23/coding-when-youre-tired-and-unmotivated/#comment-42188 Arto Bendiken Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:51:50 +0000 http://phildawes.net/blog/2007/07/23/coding-when-youre-tired-and-unmotivated/#comment-42188 On the contrary, I find Gambit-C a most interesting Scheme implementation - it's the one I use most often right after Chicken. And as it happens, I'm also currently working on triple stores in Scheme - it's a small world, that we meet here at the end of the long tail. On the contrary, I find Gambit-C a most interesting Scheme implementation - it’s the one I use most often right after Chicken. And as it happens, I’m also currently working on triple stores in Scheme - it’s a small world, that we meet here at the end of the long tail.

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