One trend I see in the awesome developers I've met, is that they devote inordinate amounts of time to coding at the expense of (usually) their health. Personally, I also find it hard to motivate myself to keep healthy. Every now and again, I meet a fantastic coder who has it clocked; they are up to date with the latest dev news, have ti...
We know that working many hours in front of computers gives us many bad and unhealthy habits, bad health conditions and so on, which in the long term decrease our productivity. Did you make any big changes in your lifestyle that made a big improvement in your health and productivity? Please name one such activity - it could be change o...
Here's a bit of a career-oriented question I've been pondering for a while. Have you thought about making a radical career or lifestyle change away from programming, some time in the future? If so, what? Or even better, have you or someone you know already done this? The way I see it is this: Programmers like challenges Many start o...
One of the greatest joys (and hardest things to convey to non-programmers) is the feeling of exhilaration we often get when we finally get that "aha!" moment working on a tough problem - then we go implement it and it works magically. I've been thinking about some of my favorite challenges and how I eventually solved them - I think it wo...
I have implemented a custom lifestyle for Windsor that will allow me to scope components to the current WCF operation. The biggest problem is that the call context initializer is executed after the service has been constructed which means that it cannot have dependencies on components with a perWcfLifestyle because the context for the pe...
I think I have reached a point, in my career, where I want to get as excited as I did when got my head around programming. . I need excitement and a new challenge (that can still pay the bills). Do I :- Stay contracting - most boring option, been doing this for a long time now. Manage a team and become more a designer, orchestrator ...
In short, when you have planned or have thought about an idea to create - what do you use to help keep you on task, or to make sure you stay programming without (negative) distraction? I've found that reading books and being around like minded people does help with motivation, although when it comes time to being by yourself typing away...
Possible Duplicate: How do you keep a balance between working, training, health and family? Since I married (~year ago) I feel that I don't have enough time to work anymore. For years I've been working at my day job doing regular stuff, and at nights I've been committing to the opensource projects, freelancing and self-educati...
I'm using AutoMapper to map domain entities to view models in an Asp.Net MVC app. I register these mapping classes in Castle Windsor so they are available to the controller thru ctor dependency injection. These mapping classes has a virtual CreateMap method where I can override AutoMapper's mapping, telling it how to map fields from th...