Bane Macleod

Portal Coming Along

The Webcam Portal is almost finished with the base elements. It is at this point completely functional, if a bit lacking in the things I originally intended to put in it. Once I finish off the registration routines I will link that.

The biggest problem I have is sort of two fold.

1) I have too many damn ideas, and not enough time to do them.
2) When I find time to do one it ends up becoming almost bloated because I obsessively add features and every new twist I can shove in.

My new webcam portal is a good example of this. It has support for Jabber and Odigo names, not likely something that will be common. It also has support for FOAF files, something that will be downright uncommon. Yet still the archive and login stuff remains unwritten. The fun stuff I overwork and the boring stuff gets left undone.

I really need a better way of getting passed my laziness, or finding a way to make the crap work fun. When I was working in a team this was pretty much accomplished by leaving some of the most insanely stupid commenting you have ever seen, or giving functions names like "Magical_Duck" and "Ninja_Crabwalk". Now that I'm for the most part working alone its a little different, as entertaining as I find myself (and I can make myself laugh from time to time) it's just not the same.

So really I wonder how others get passed the boring work without ruining the fun stuff.