{"id":87,"date":"2008-12-15T21:21:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/vexvox\/2008\/12\/15\/i_find_your_lack_of_initiative\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T21:21:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:21:27","slug":"i_find_your_lack_of_initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/2008\/12\/15\/i_find_your_lack_of_initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"I find your lack of initiative disturbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight, I broke a policy of mine I pretty much instated in the last three or so years — never to work on web development at home.<\/p>\n

There was a time in my life when I would go to work and code, then go home and code. It was the early part of the decade, when I had just been trained on the intricacies of web development, and I wanted to automate everything. I reinvented wheels all over the place, justifying the effort as "learning experiences" and "coding to exact needs".<\/p>\n

And I built some pretty big sites in the day.<\/p>\n

It's kind of weird to think my first scripts were written in 1999 — nearly 10 years ago. Have I been at this for that long?<\/p>\n

The policy not to work on web development at home arose after I started paying more attention to home recording. Sure, I could have used my free time to learn Ruby or Python or to keep up with frameworks and whatever else gets tongues wagging on dzone<\/a>. But web development has always been that job that I could do that doesn't annoy me. I can do it, and I can do it well. I can even do it for years to come. But I will never love it.<\/p>\n

And if all the blog articles about what makes good developers are any indication, then I'm on my way to becoming a bad developer. It's not like I hide my predisposition. I don't try out every new language. I don't subscribe to any development blog feeds (but you should see the number of music sites I follow.) I code at work — sometimes — and I always leave it there. It never comes home with me.<\/p>\n

I made a choice to learn more about audio engineering than software engineering, and I unleashed a torrent of creativity that built up because<\/em> I let code get in the way. It's a choice that may not serve me well in the long run as a programmer. It wasn't a few days ago that I started working with jQuery, even though I had seen it mentioned time and again, day in and day out on dzone. And while I learned about MVC years ago, I didn't really start seriously working with it till now.<\/p>\n

The oddest part of tonight's infraction was the fact I didn't even use my local files — I logged into the office through VPN!<\/p>\n

I must admit working with CodeIgniter has gotten me engaged again, and perhaps that excitement tickled the part of my brain that really does like code. At the same time, I don't want it to get in the way of music again. I let a lot of things get in the way in the last decade or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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