The Scripting Zone
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Before I begin, if someone could make a parody poster of the Twilight Zone but it's the Scripting Zone, I would pay...
Moving on, I am not a programmer. I've done programming and it drives me nuts. However, I love scripting. I know that in many ways they are similar. Right now, for one of the clients I work with, I am writing a script that will accept a few basic inputs and then run all the commands and give you all the output formatted automatically. I've been working on it most of the day and it's coming along quite nicely. I did notice, though, that at one point I'd gone into my hyper-focus mode because I didn't watch the queue for new cases, wasn't aware of anything going on around me, etc. This can be good when you're working on something but not when it's a side project that will help with work but keeps you from doing work...
I hadn't gone into a hyper-focus zone in awhile and it was kind of an "out-of-body" experience to suddenly realize I was doing that and almost wake up, in a sense. Anyways, I was wondering if this ever happens to anyone else. I'm pretty sure @scottalanmiller knows exactly what I'm talking about...lol
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I generally get this "zone" when working on personal, pet projects for my home lab. I will start working on them at 10pm, when I look at the clock again it is 4am.
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Nearly all programmers are scripters. Scripting is programming.
It's completely normal for programmers to get into the "zone" when working. This is a well known phenomenon. You'll find that pretty much all programmers get this.
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This is why interrupting programmers is such a big deal and needs to be avoided. Programmers spend all of their time trying to get into the zone and once they achieve it losing it can be devastating to productivity.
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@scottalanmiller said:
This is why interrupting programmers is such a big deal and needs to be avoided. Programmers spend all of their time trying to get into the zone and once they achieve it losing it can be devastating to productivity.
Amen to that...
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@scottalanmiller said:
This is why interrupting programmers is such a big deal and needs to be avoided. Programmers spend all of their time trying to get into the zone and once they achieve it losing it can be devastating to productivity.
Oh you mean it's a bad idea to put them in a giant open floor plan with tons of jackasses interrupting them all the time, talking, shooting marshmallow guns, etc? We give programmers their own offices, I'm proud to say. Silicon Valley trends are really anti-productivity.
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@tonyshowoff said:
Oh you mean it's a bad idea to put them in a giant open floor plan with tons of jackasses interrupting them all the time, talking, shooting marshmallow guns, etc? We give programmers their own offices, I'm proud to say. Silicon Valley trends are really anti-productivity.
No kidding. Open plans, tons of communications channels, Macs. These things are crazy for programmers.
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And instant messenger.... nothing like continuous pop ups on the desktop in the middle of working.
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There are just so many "channels" of interruption at most jobs. Email, phone, messenger, people stopping by, your cell phone, Facebook or whatever you use. The amount of time that you spend seeing why something is alerting you is more than you can spend doing anything else.
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Sounds like most programmers (people?) should work out a home office.
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I've always thought that. My first job in 1989 for Eastman Kodak was from a home office!
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I think that more and more firms are realizing the value of keeping people at home so that you can actually get work done. It makes the day longer for work too. The commute time, the lunch time, the water cooler time - all those things that cut into the day because you are in the office mostly go away when working from home.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I've always thought that. My first job in 1989 for Eastman Kodak was from a home office!
Yes but you were a teenager and your father worked there...
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Thank you to @nadnerB for the Chrome extension...
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@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I've always thought that. My first job in 1989 for Eastman Kodak was from a home office!
Yes but you were a teenager and your father worked there...
But he wasn't involved on the project I was on. Not really related.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I've always thought that. My first job in 1989 for Eastman Kodak was from a home office!
Yes but you were a teenager and your father worked there...
But he wasn't involved on the project I was on. Not really related.
Just saying if you don't think he had something to do with you getting in there that is silly.
