Self-Inflicted Punishment
October 4, 2007
I will not reinvent the wheel. I will not reinvent the wheel. I will not reinvent the wheel. I will not reinvent the wheel…
Yesterday I wasted nearly five hours trying to implement something someone else had already coded. This isn’t the first time I have tried developing something from scratch without first checking to see what others have done to solve the exact same problem. I need to break this habit.
…I will not reinvent the wheel. I will not reinvent the wheel. I will not reinvent the wheel. I will not reinvent the wheel. I will not reinvent the wheel. I will not reinvent the wheel…
October 6, 2007 at 11:55 pm
man i am just the opposite. i always search, search, search before i start any coding… i love open source!
the down side is that i think it can stifle my own creative problem-solving thought process.
of course you may just be a refactoring masochist.
oh now that you are into other peoples code check out these sweet dropdowns using the jquery library:
http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/
it’s as they put it “Suckerfish on ‘roids”
a fade delay on mouseout… pretty sweet!
October 7, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Good point.
Thanks for the link!