This is a sincere question, please hear me out before downvoting or hitting close. I noticed last night after having spent hours away playing a new computer game that I had lost all track of time while I was playing it. Someone would have to come and physically drag me away while I was playing to break my concentration. Then, when I wo...
About 10 years ago I had a good, on track career in IT programming C++/VB and SQL Server, however made several bad carrer desisions and ended up going backwards, developing in MS Access and a little VB. About a year ago I got lucky and managed to move to a company doing .NET development. I am really enjoying it, got a fairly good grasp o...
Microsoft has great technology, but core assets, such as code, remain closed. Developers likes to have control over their development environment (and eventually on the deployment platform as well) - so what is your top motivation to develop for a closed source platform? ...
I'm in an interesting situation at the moment, I managed to convince a few people from university to spend the summer holiday building a game with me - leaving me mostly in charge of a team of people, all of whom are fairly good programmers but none of whom have any experience working in a programming team (this includes myself). Even be...
I understand this is a subjective question but I want to see how others dealt with this issue: How do you convince yourself and your teammates while trying to start a business or a project and suddenly faced with competition, whether due to lack of research or entirely new startups, that we should keep going? What are some motivational...
Idle for more than two weeks! all my team is idle! no more coding, just editing few lines of code, no real development, what shall I do? if(idle){ // Please advise ... } ...
Using bounties for motivating people to improve open source projects may be a good approach, but the problem is that I did not find a bounty website that would be successful. I know about sites like: bountyup.com, opensourcexperts.com or bountysource.com but they do not look to be so active. Anyway, if you think that one of them is good...
As a one person company programmer who is writing shareware (aka no customer meetings etc.) this hits me many times. What is your way to deal with it and find motivation to work on your code again? Even my previous way to write down very small steps on a paper that you can physical strike through when done - to give you a real feelin...
I started converting one of Asp.Net Webforms projects into MVC. When I first started on it, I was really into it, working 1-2 hours on it every night. I got a ton of it done, but then something happened. I divided the project up into small chunks using AgileZen to list tasks. I am now to the point where I don't want to work on it. I...
So i presented my code yesterday...after a lot of hard work i was happy to show it to my colleagues. After presentation all that was left was my projects name. Everything else has to change... They took a lot of time to explain their point of view but after getting back in my place i was really disappointed. I read mostly all "motivat...
Hello, I have a question. How you get up motivated if you find out that you are far away from the best programmers? I mean I have some people who are around me who are better than me a lot. Some of them are web guru's, some of them are sport programmers(TC, ACM and etc). But they are universal, they easily can adopt to any development e...
There's a good chance this question will get closed, but I feel it's relevant to programmers. A project that I've put a great deal of energy into was just significantly scaled back, to the point where it might as well not exist. There is a very good chance that the bulk of my work over the past two years will never see the light of day...
My entire team works from a different geographical location and I am the only programmer working remotely. I often find it quite difficult to have my code reviewed, as people take very long time to give their comments (usually they are genuinely busy with high priority work and I work mostly only on low priority projects/task ) .The com...
So I'm going to an average university, majoring in CS. I haven't learned a damn thing and am in my third year. I've come to be really bored with studying CS. Initially, I was kind of misinformed and thought majoring in CS would make me a good "product creator". I make my money combining programming and business/marketing. But I have a...
A lot of developers get an exciting idea and they create a project, but eventually life gets in the way and you have to stop working on the project. Some time passes and you know you should probably get back to work on the project, but you just can't make yourself do it. What do you do to motivate yourself to get back to work on a proj...
There are plenty of question asking Which Programming Language Should I Learn? but I have not found an answer yet to the question what really motivates people to learn a specific new language?. There are the people who think they should learn a new language every year for educational purpose. How do they decide on the languages to be le...
I've been a PHP programmer for 8 or so years, I'm familiar with OOP and try to consider best practices whenever programming. I would like to pick up C++ to possibly enter the 'game development' field, where now I'm doing web dev. I'm not a school person, but was wondering what people think about self-taught math to complement learning ...
what do you do to motivate yourself to program. sometimes I know I should program but I am a procrastinator so I read about how people invented stuff or read about how some programming or math concepts came to be (history). My question is what do you do? ...
Of course all of us love to work on the interesting problems - the thrill of hunting down the perfect algorithm that perfectly expresses the desires of our hearts to both the compiler and those who come after us. We love it so much that we're willing to put up with all sorts of monkeying from co-workers and pointy-haired bosses. It's so ...
Every programmer's top motivator is different. It may be company's brand development platform (java, .net, etc.) satisfying salary location of the company flexible work hours organizational culture or a combination of these There are lots of other ones that can be added to this list. So, what do you think? ...