Bryan Stevenson: > It's just like in "A Beautiful Mind" where Nash saw the patterns in > encrypted documents etc. (not that I am in any way in the same > league...but you get my drift). I just see it all in my head and mess > with it there before writing the code. Kinda drives people nuts when I > "go away" in my head for a bit and come back with a solution to a > problem ;-)
I was trying to find some way of responding to this that wouldn't seem conceited... and couldn't really come up with anything, so I'll just go ahead and say it. I thought everyone did this? Certainly not to the extent of A Beatiful Mind or the card-counting in Rain Man, but I have a difficult time imagining any other way of working. Although I've never noticed that other people reacted at all to my doing it either. Or maybe I don't really do it to the extent that you do, but on my own projects I tend to spend a good deal of time creating a mental model of how to accomplish my goals before I start writing any code. On CacheBox I knew how I wanted to implement the Agent / Service design a while before I started writing any code, how it would hot-swap different storage engines and gracefully downgrade from requested parameters to meet available resources, and I had a model of the query-of-query techniques I wanted to try (although they changed once I tested them). -- s. isaac dealey :: AutLabs Creating meaningful employment for people with Autism http://www.autlabs.com ph: 817.385.0301 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327643 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
