[NickDMax]

I just got a >200 page document that I have to read and be intimately familiar with... I am begining to see why Team Leads are always complaining about never getting to write a piece of code...

When I actually did the poll myself... does not seem so bad actually... guess I just needed perspective.

[noyesa]

Annoyingly enough, a lot of people seem to think it's okay sitting around answering and receiving e-mail. A lot of people live by their inbox and have inbox anxiety, where they click "Send/Receive" ever other minute.

I'm fortunate enough to be in a position where I can set my mail client to only check for new mail every 30 minutes to an hour.

I simply cannot break concentration. I have to work for at least a solid 30-60 minutes straight and keep the flow going before I can take time away from that for distractions.

I also have a very strict e-mail policy. If it isn't actionable, it gets deleted. If it is actionable, I quickly add tasks to my task manager (wonderfully trivial in Apple Mail; it often takes less than a single click), and then I delete it. I have one archive folder where I keep anything that I think I might need later. Whatever it takes, I keep my inbox empty. Avoiding e-mail overload in our very e-mail-centric office culture is one of the best ways to keep me working on what I'm getting paid to do, solve problems. If I keep myself organized and put things where they belong as soon as I'm made aware of them, I avoid the idle time of dredging through my e-mail inbox, and coming back later to organize my tasks all at once.

This post has been edited by noyesa: 01 April 2009 - 04:10 PM

[Amadeus]

This poll was a tough one for me, as I made the switch a number of years ago away from coding for a living to take on more of the management side, and the coding I do on the side can be dedicated, as it's for my own side company.

I have heard similar complaints from my dev teams though, and well remember my days when coding was my main focus and I was somewhat vexed by the need to spend time away from it. Ah well, gotta do what you gotta do, right?

[firebolt]

Well, limited coding when your still in high school.

This post has been edited by firebolt: 02 April 2009 - 03:28 AM

[Nikhil_07n]

I spend all of my time at DIC!

[thehat]

My actual time spent in development dropped sharply when I left employment and set up an agency. Now meetings and day to day office running things get in the way quite a lot.

[prajayshetty]

i spend lot of time in planning whenever i do projects because i think that more planned you are it is easy to execute the code i guess you all agree and rest of time i sped on dic

[firebolt]

Nikhil_07n, on 4 Apr, 2009 - 02:11 AM, said:

I spend all of my time at DIC!

Wow, dont you have a job or study.

[firebolt]

For me school and sleep leave only 8 hours to do everything else.

[abgorn]

Nikhil_07n, on 3 Apr, 2009 - 08:11 AM, said:

I spend all of my time at DIC!

Doesn't it defeat the purpose of being here if you don't spend any time coding but just talk about it?

[NickDMax]

I find the researching number amusing. I wonder who clicked the "If I don't know it, you don't need it".

Personally I think that research is one of the most important things developers do. Its hard to take a rest from it. This is a terribly dynamic industry and you just can't know it all. I suppose that you can know all there is to know in you little bubble, but eventually the outside world in going to seep in.

[SixOfEleven]

I did a lot of time documenting/writing for projects before I got sick and had to stop working. It is what I did.

Coding was always secondary to writing for me. Now I work on personal projects and write tutorials. Trying to start a freelance career doing documentation/writing for projects.