When working on a new project...

onion2k

When working on a new project (as in a fun thing, not paid stuff) when do you tell people about it? As soon as you've thought of it? When theres something to see? When you get to a beta stage?

I'm dreadful at finishing things so I tend not to mention what I'm working on until its at a beta level. Just wondering if I'm odd..

Well, more odd.. 😉

piersk

No, I'm the same. I start on a project, then about a week or so later I get fed up and stop. I think the most I've worked on something for is about a month.

I announce the project once there is something worthwile that they can see.

Shrike

15 minutes 🙁

piersk

Is that the amount of time until you tell someone or until you get bored and stop?

Shrike

Bored and stop 🙂

Latest example - an Iterator wrapper for PHP5. I will probably finish this one though because it might be quite useful one day 🙂

onion2k

A what?

piersk

An iterator wrapper. Dunno what that is, but sounds funky

Damn I seem to be using the word funky far too much these days. And I thought I'd grown out of it

vaaaska

Ummm, not to sound completely insane, but I've been working on a project for 1.5 years now in my spare time.

Should I stop now?

Shrike

Well making use of PHP5's iterator interface, and wrapping these functions up in my own classes and also extending it with a MySQL result iterator, a File iterator and so forth.

This may be a pointless effort since the SPL functions already use the Iterator interface, so it's really reinventing the wheel (hence the bored after 15 minutes part) 🙂

onion2k

Jan: "echo".
Feb: "echo 'h".
Mar: "echo 'hel".
...
...
...
Nov: "echo 'hello worl".
Dec: "echo 'hello world';".

😃

dalecosp

Originally posted by onion2k
Jan: "echo".
Feb: "echo 'h".
Mar: "echo 'hel".
...
...
...
Nov: "echo 'hello worl".
Dec: "echo 'hello world';".

😃

Reckon I'd stop around May, then ... no, make that April.... 😉

Hmm...my volunteer projects are all stuck on the burner. Heck, even some of the paying ones ... :rolleyes:

jebster

I never produce anything worth mentioning, not creative enough to think of anything cool enough 🙁

Originally posted by vaaaska
Ummm, not to sound completely insane, but I've been working on a project for 1.5 years now in my spare time.

Should I stop now?

What's that? 😕

AstroTeg

Originally posted by onion2k
When working on a new project (as in a fun thing, not paid stuff) when do you tell people about it? As soon as you've thought of it? When theres something to see? When you get to a beta stage?

I like to immediately (even before development) tell my friends who I think will find the project useful. Then note their reaction. If they're excited, this gets me totally stoked and I jump on the project. If they are like, "dude, there's 10 other programs that do that." then I mope around and check out the other 10 and see what they did (and usually end up installing one of them).

I have a project that has had about 4 months (added up) of raw development time and its been running for 2 to 3 years now. This is all on the side, not work related type stuff. But at the same time, a good number of people are using it in several different ways so that has me pretty driven to keep the thing going...

The_Chancer

I did my own fun thing - for my own PHP advancement, then showed it to my boss at work...

Then got paid for it... 😃 😃

As for other projects, I usually do them cos I need that particular function (webmail that doesn't get barred by work... etc)

All good stuff, but they do sometimes take forever when you aren't getting paid for it.

interactive

When I'm near beta.

I start on so many personal projects that if I told everyone when I came up with a new one they would never believe me as I only finish about 10% of them.