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Sunday, January 09, 2005
Getting back into the programming groove
I decided today to get back into programming after being burned out from work for so long. I work at UPS loading boxes every day. Loading boxes all day is about the most brain-dead a job you can do. You would think I would come home and want to programming just to use my brain. Yet, I just don’t feel like it.
I haven’t written a line of code since the middle of October. So, today I made the effort to get back into coding. I had started several programming projects a while ago and just stopped. They projects were add-ons for the ExpressionEngine web publishing system that I’m using.
I really haven’t done any coding today. Today was just prep and setup. I’m making a FreeBSD 5.3 test server to do the development work on. Right now I have the OS installed but I’m doing a buildworld on it in order to update everything and patch security holes. Tomorrow I’ll get apache, mysql, php, etc installed and running. The next day I’ll finally get ExpressionEngine installed and my special backup/rollback procedure configured and running.
Then after all that I’ll actually get around to start coding!
I’m sure I’ll have enough on my plate for a while but I’m already thinking of some other programming projects I’d love to work on so we’ll just see how much I manage to get done.
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Best of luck getting back in to it! I know what you mean about being burnt out on it. I do it every day, but slumps come and go where I have a hard time getting things done at work and then I have nothing left when I get home.