Am i a Nut job?

jgetner

Yes the title say's it all except the why's. So I would like to know is this just something in my head or do more programmers do this than just me?.

When i sit down to code lets say my own projects i have this horrible feeling that something i write can always be better so i throw away the versions i just wrote and try to write something better that seems or aka what the masses say is one of the best implemented for examples.... "i have tried this one more than once"... the zend DB and i find myself writing the same functions just in my own code... then after 3 - 7 days of hard core programming and testing i accomplish a rough draft. Guess what i keep telling myself it always can be better i mean i wrote this why don't i write something even better!... So here i'am 3 months later and im still at square one but with more awareness of my ever growing problem of it can be better....

cretaceous

it's been a whole week and no one has replied - so it's true -
and nobody wants to associate with you either ! 😃

but I know the feeling ... you just have to hope to do it better next time.. or revisit it in a year and be pleased how much better you'd do it now, while moaning at your own messy and over complex code - I've been updating a 6 year old project and it's not been much fun

but you also have to move on - that way you get things finished !

Derokorian

I find that when I'm working for someone on a paid project I tend to get it done rather quickly but when working on projects for myself or for fun they take forever because I'll write TONS of code and go "No... that's not good enough". I guess the reason for this is I try to get customers a working product asap while they have no idea what the code means, I know it means I could improve it heh. My personal website has been under constructions since late summer lol, I've restarted the gallery for my photographs probably 4 or 5 times heh...