Confidence

Yesterday, we paired with Ivan. He is awesome! And we completed the blog engine with everything that we need. It now works, has tags, user management, perfect! The only thing is that it is not beautiful, but we got what we wanted from that. You can see that here : Our super blog engine~

But then I realized it took us more time than the others. I feel very confident and could explain every line of code in all of that, but then what if I just spent too much time on that?

I feel like Phase 2 is hard on confidence. I complete stuff, learn all the time, and then compare myself.

But then, we got code review. At the end of that, I know that my work is fine. My code is clean, upgradable of course, but not needed upgrades, and not with the things we know so far.
Another thing that actually helped me was : We took 45 minutes with matthew, and we created our own version of bit.ly. I’ll share the link when I have it deployed ;)

So in the end, we took more time on the main challenges… And that gave us the possibility to finish the rest much faster. So in the end, I am still in the race… We are ALL! But we need to keep on going.

(Lack of) Sleep

First phase was cool. We live nearby, we work until late, but then we go back fast, sleep, and come in late in the morning.

Phase 2 is not like that. The fact that I did not feel really confident about the amount of work ended up making me, and a lot of us, go back home later and later everyday. Yesterday, we got back home at 1AM…

So in the end, bye bye the 8 hours nights for this week… But then I need to sleep, because DBC is a marathon, not a sprint. And less sleep –> less effective the next days. So this weekend, I’ll sleep. A lot.

It is my plan, and I will stick to that! If not, I’ll get hit very hard by my fiancee… I am scared.

Links

Everything is linked. We are all, the things we do are all, the whole world is just a big net. In DBC, and especially in the hard times we are facing sometimes, it just makes us connect more. I feel like everybody around me is now part of my family. Even the new cohort are like little brothers and sisters I just got.
I love that. I love that new family, every one of them! (Or maybe not Matthew? I haven’t decided yet, he’s ok as Glenn)

Plus, small things make me think about that big net. Yesterday was a conference by a developer that works for Zendesk. Zendesk being the tool that I used in my work before DBC…

Things are related, that’s it. I don’t believe in randomness, I do believe in links too complicated to be understandable, but not in randomness.

Anyway, back to work now, expect some news tomorrow!