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Move awayyy from the Code

Sitting here, learning some Swing (:p so what i haven’t written a java GUI since ‘95!!), and implemented something in about 10 minutes that had taken me days before to figure out how to do…all it took was about 5 minutes in the throne room ;) to think about a different way to approach this solution, came down here and *bam*, ended up being able to nix 2 methods and corresponding lines of code ‘cos of this. It’s a simple lesson, heard time and time again, but always just so sweet when it happens…just step away from your code for a while, don’t think about it at all. when you come back to it, you’ll come fresh, and the time you would have spent trying to figure the stuff out is made up by having a fresh perspective.

What this means is that the GUI for the Jb software will be finished Fairly Soon now. it wasn’t even all that complicated–i just really needed to figure it out on my own, so i wouldn’t just learn from copy&paste (which is beneficial as well, but…).

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joy 5 years ago 1 point
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yay, you CAN do everything! just give it some time, it all comes to my genius husband:)

Joelb 5 years ago 1 point
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I love it when that happens...

a few weeks back - I was setting up a krazy Linux router with some shapecfg on each of the 4 NICs, so I could do some nasty WAN emualtion (for all non-network types that's geekspeek for a krazee network setup) - I hit a wall, none of my routes were working outside the local nets... took me 2 dayz, bangin' my head against the wall, b4 I figured out that the problem wasn't in the router at all, but it was in one of my PIX firewallz - DANG

When it dawned on me --after a short break-- it was like a great revelation - weight lifted from my shoulders, all was right with the world again!!!

;_)

jonmadison 5 years ago 1 point
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i have only a passing idea what you're talking about joelb, but i feel you. :D

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