Progress
Well after banging my head against the wall all day and trying at least 20 different methods, I went back to part of a routine I did two days ago. It turns out I think the rough one I had was the right way to do it after all. So I changed a couple of parameters and now its beginning to work better. I also figured out an additional trick, now I have it usable. Now I am going to work on some polish and I think in a day or so I will have a smooth routine that will be good enough to integrate into news addict.
That’s the way it usually goes with me, I just keep banging my head into the wall and exhaust every method I can think of then finally it ends up being something not that difficult or crazy.
I really think that is probably the most important atttribute of a programmer… Perseverance, it isn’t so much about being clever or smart or anything like that, it’s just that we tend to be able to spend days plugging away on some little routine until it finally works. Then when you look back on it you wonder why it was so difficult in the first place.
