Briefly
Briefly this evening, I thought about spending some time playing around with Processing.
I'd take a few days, learn some new stuff, create animations that do nothing in particular but look cool, set it to some music. I have lots of ideas I want to explore, things that I think will look interesting and cool and maybe interactive. A toy someone can play with.
I'd get better, develop a following, buzz, excitement, yada yada. Eventually I'm like a Processing guru, making wicked cool animations at a whim. Sounds neat.
But when would I start this? Hmmmm. How about, do it fucking now? Ok, sounds good.
Go to the website, start looking at some code. It all looks interesting and approachable. Cool.
Hmmm, wait. Should I really be fooling around with this? I really need to do the replication testing for the new security features of CouchDB. For some reason I don't want to. But If I can fool around with Processing, then I clearly have the mental focus necessary to do the tests. The replication tests need to be done, then I can work on the Lucene integration and get closer to 1.0. So then I decide to fire up TextMate and have at it.
But before I do, I have this idea for a blog post. The CouchDB testing work will have to wait...
Posted December 26, 2008 6:30 PM
Comments
Perhaps you need to somewhat better separation between "job-related" and "private" coding?
I'm aware that for the average 21st century digital boy work and private intermingles a lot.
I personally follow try to follow the paradigm: during work hours I do stuff which has to be done, during "private" coding hours I code stuff which I consider cool. Often the stuf which has to be done is also cool - so no problem there.
But I usually don't touch coding jobs which I hate do do on weekends. My vision of relaxing ;-)
mdornseif, December 27, 2008 2:44 PM
I downloaded the iPhone SDK months ago and have repeatedly gone through the same process. I've definitely missed my chance to be an eary guru...
Ken Pespisa, December 30, 2008 2:22 PM
You should remote pair program with one of the other ridiculously talented couchdb contributors when you get into moods like these. I've found pairing to consistently be a good weapon for such moods (which I find myself in a great deal of the time).
trogdoro, January 11, 2009 10:55 PM
Not to distract you yet further, but John Resig has ported Processing to JavaScript:
http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/
Benjamin, February 3, 2009 8:52 AM
Check out my recent work of SNS's visualization with Processing.
It was very fun! Now, I stopped the work, but sooner or later I will do it again. I will use CouchDB as data storage.
http://vimeo.com/2591447
DongWoo Lee, March 19, 2009 12:18 PM
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