Comments on: When programming becomes stale…

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:08:43 +0000

@phil: Sounds familiar. Unfortunately, I don’t have found a satisfying answer to this question for myself yet… The standard answer is to scratch your own itch. This works from time to time, but often there is no such an itch… Another option is to scratch the itch from someone else, e.g. from a family member or a friend.

I’m sorry I can’t provide a better answer…

By: phil

phil — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:23:09 +0000

Problem here is that i dont know what to program.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:11:24 +0000

@Glavy: This is easier said than done. However, for some this is probably the right thing to do. For others, it is enough to change some part of their job, for example, moving to another company/team or doing more conceptual work.

But before you can look for a solution you have to figure out why you are bored.

By: Glavy

Glavy — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:43:20 +0000

bored ..change your profession :-))

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:47:26 +0000

@James: In that case it is a probably good idea to learn something new, be it a new PHP framework or a new programming language. If you want to be up and running as soon as possible, then the first option is better, as you can build on your existing PHP knowledge, whereas the second option allows you to learn more, though it probably takes longer…

By: James Eggers

James Eggers — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:04:38 +0000

@cakebaker:

I’m not bored of programming as such, just php + codeigniter. Codeigniter makes things much more complicated…

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:56:47 +0000

@James: Thanks for your comment!

Yes, I can imagine how you feel. Learning a new programming language is a good way to escape such a situation and to discover new stuff (I’m currently learning Ruby myself). However, if you are bored from programming itself or from building web apps, then changing the programming language won’t help much…

Anyway, I hope you find something that is more enjoyable and less boring :)

By: James Eggers

James Eggers — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:42:23 +0000

This has happened to me only about 2 weeks ago. Since then programming has become boring as well as designing web interfaces for my web apps. I think this is because I know how to use php + html + css extremely well. It just gets boring when there is nothing else to ‘learn’ besides some functions built in to php.

I’m going to learn Ruby or Perl, maybe using these languages will make me be less bored.

By: Bored of programming part 2 « FilChi Weblog

Bored of programming part 2 « FilChi Weblog — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:54:21 +0000

[...] · Tagged boredom That was last year, June, when I first went to Daniel’s blog and read this article about the feeling of boredom in programming. I blogged about it here in wordpress hosted [...]

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:55:05 +0000

@michael: Thanks for your great comment. I am thinking about your website idea currently, and so it is possible I will launch such a site soon.

@Franck06l: Well, I realized I like the conceptual level of programming (software engineering), but not the implementation. But the latter dominated…

Thanks for your offer. I will mail you, if I should visit the south of France (at the moment it is not planned for this year).