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Dean Roddey wrote: Given that I almost never do the same thing twice
I find that hard to believe. Sure, at a high level, yes, but at a low level, DB access, file I/O, even device I/O, rendering web pages, creating UI's (pick you tech poison), writing workflows, possibly dealing with threads, modularization, test fixtures, etc., are all rather common activities. But maybe that's all just the commonality of my world. 
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You'd have to know my situation for it to make sense I guess. I'm the author of a huge project, about a million lines of code, that I've built from the ground up. The bottom half is all general purpose code, and it long ago encapsulated all of those things for reuse. So I don't have to really ever repeat myself, repeat myself. It's always upwards and onwards, though of course sometimes I do circle around and shore up my rear guard before going back to the front. But it's almost always diving into some big new problem domain.
The general purpose part of it I recently open sourced:
GitHub - DeanRoddey/CIDLib: The CIDLib general purpose C++ development environment[^]
The top part is a very powerful automation system called CQC (www.charmedquark.com).
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Dean Roddey wrote: Since I work alone there's no point in writing specifications.
I always make specs, because it helps the customer to realize what he/she is asking for; I'll try to make sure that I'm building what they need, and not my personal interpretation of what they might need.
Next, a minimal UI is drawn, and any logic described. Once those exist, I usually move on to datastructures, formulating a (normalized) database-scheme if it needs persistence.
I see a lot of other people immediatly firing up VS when they get a new project, and starting to code. Still, if I am given 8 hours to chop down a tree, I'll spend 6 hours sharpening my axe. Good preparation always pays back 
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For me, I am the 'customer', and the boss, and the code monkey.
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Dean Roddey wrote: I am the 'customer'
You pay for your software? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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With my life... But I assumed he meant customer as in he's a contract programmer and the customer is the company he's writing the code for.
BTW, I have to report that I don't pay me well, and the benefits suck.
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Dean Roddey wrote: With my life... But I assumed he meant customer as in he's a contract programmer and the customer is the company he's writing the code for.
I don't assume; and it's not a very good idea to place yourself in the customers' seat.
Dean Roddey wrote: BTW, I have to report that I don't pay me well, and the benefits suck.
Have you considered threathening yourself with a strike? 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Dean Roddey wrote: Am I the only one who uses the 'Chaos Pattern' as a development tool?
No, That's what I do, too. I usually start with an outline in code, perhaps as comments, then start fleshing out and testing as I add pieces.
I tried writing detailed specs first and found it to be a waste of time as I quickly found the need to modify the specs for reason of practical implementation.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I think this is the first time (at this new job) that I worked on SQL batch job doing more than 15 millions INSERTS (and DELETE, and etc...) since the batch import was buggy and I had to recover from many ooopsies..
New record for me!
Arguably I might have done massive SQL in 2008 too.. but I forgot! 
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You'll be playing with the big boys soon enough.
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Yeah! 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: You'll be playing with the big boys soon enough.
The implications of this statement have certain "Michael Jackson-esque undertones". What are you saying he's been doing until now? 
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What? I thought MJ became famous for playing with himself...
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Well, no. But when he died, he did have so much plastic content in his body, they decided to melt him and make Lego blocks out of him, so now it'd be little boys' turn to play with Michael Jackson.
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Well, I successfullydefended my PHD dissertation today, finally, so now I can officially claim the title of Dr. It only took 8 years thanks to a stroke delay, but it's done, so now I'm trying to figure out what's next.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congratulations Walt, I know it's been a long time coming but now it's yours...Dr. Fair!
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Over here, the Ph.D document is called a dissertation, Thesis is for undergraduate and Masters stuff. My Disertation was "Development of an integrated Reservoir and Operational model for Marginal oil fields.
Basically it was applied math and numerical solution of partial differential equations implemented in C#
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congratulations Doc!
Now what?
PS: I hope you used a better spell checker for your thesis than the one you used for the subject of this post! 
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I hope so, too!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congratulations! Having supported two of my offspring through their PhD's, I have a fair understanding the the sheer foot-slogging grind involved.
Cheers,
Peter
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Selected a secret lair location yet?
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No, I'd love to go on teaching and further research, I.e Academia, but so far no possibilities have crawled to my doorstep.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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<bugs-bunny-voice>
What's up, Doc?
</bugs-bunny-voice>
Seriously, congratulations!
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Congratulations!
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