{"id":209,"date":"2007-04-28T03:39:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T07:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2007-04-28T03:39:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T07:39:21","slug":"working-hard-getting-nothing-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/04\/28\/working-hard-getting-nothing-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Working hard, getting nothing done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI tend to consider days where I don&#8217;t implement major new features wasted days.  By that standard I&#8217;m working very hard and getting nothing done.<\/p>\n<p>My time right now is split:<\/p>\n<p>15% answer emails (mostly artists)<br \/>\n10% updating the artist Wiki<br \/>\n15% general artist support<br \/>\n30% training &#038; bug-fixing for a new programmer<br \/>\n5% fixing old bugs caused by myself<br \/>\n5% refactoring<br \/>\n5% communication in general (bug reporting, etc).<br \/>\n5% miscellaneous crap (blog, worrying. stress)<br \/>\n10% adding minor features<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably been like this for the last week.<\/p>\n<p>I have a few good things going for me:<\/p>\n<p>1. All the major architectural features are in.  It&#8217;s just a matter of polishing them and getting them working.<br \/>\n2. My programmer from Portugal is really good.  I can assign him stuff and just know that it will get done right.<br \/>\n3. While I don&#8217;t like it, I&#8217;ve been paying a lot for the best tools.  These tools are starting to pay off.<br \/>\n4. I have as many people as I need now working on stuff.  So I don&#8217;t have to spend time interviewing.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I only have a few major features left.  Unfortunately, one of these is splitting the client and server and getting everything actually working over the net.   Ouch.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to consider days where I don&#8217;t implement major new features wasted days. By that standard I&#8217;m working very hard and getting nothing done. My time right now is split: 15% answer emails (mostly artists) 10% updating the artist Wiki 15% general artist support 30% training &#038; bug-fixing for a new programmer 5% fixing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}