It’s gonna be a long day. A long weekend, in fact. I’ve got a Monday deadline on a project, and I’ve got a few kinks to iron out and a lot of testing to do. I don’t work on work-related stuff on weekends very often, but this particular project is a lot of fun because customers are beating the door down to get in. As a designer & programmer, when that happens, it’s priceless. There’s no better feedback than people throwing money at your salespeople and asking when they can go live.

So many people have gotten so excited that my development calendar is getting rewritten. My next project after Monday was supposed to be a rewrite of the core part of our customer site, but at this point, it looks like I’ll probably be spending the next couple of months adding more features and interfaces to this new product instead. I have mixed feelings about that: I was going to switch over to Java development next month, and while I’m excited about learning new technology, I wasn’t quite as thrilled about the amount of downtime involved before I produced a valuable product again.

Anyway, enough boring stuff. Time to harness the magic of the caffeine molecules and get my coding on.