Painful coding
Do you know its really hard to code anything while you are in pain?
A lot of 'geeks' suffer from RSI at some stage, others just deal with debugging mutlithreaded programs. Me? I deal with Chronic Headaches. All day, every day.
At the moment I'm trying to setup a debugging enviroment so I can step through a different POP Library to see how I can access the message body effectivly.
It isn't a hard task by any means, but with headaches, everything is 'blocked'. It's like UAC - only the way Apple describe it in the 'I'm a PC and I'm a Mac' ads.
For example, I know I need to:
- go to my Start Menu
- fire up Visual Studio Orcas
- make a New Project
- Add the DLL's for the POP Library
- Add the bits of code I need for the actual POP connection
But when I actually go to do that, this is what happens:
- Go to the Start Menu
- Remember I need to fire up an application…but…what application was it?
- Oh, thats right, VS, thats fired up now…great, cannot for the life of me find the New Project button…I mean, I'm looking at File -> New, but there'….oh, there it is.
- Project type? Crap, I know this one, why isn't it jumping out at me…WPF App, that'll do.
- DLL's….dammit, I know I downloaded them somewhere…
and so on and so forth.
Thats all before I get to the actual applicationg programming part, where I have to think about algorithms and whatnot. That's becoming increasingly difficult to do as I live with headaches. Maybe I should give up programming and go into media, since people have been calling me a 'graphics artist' lately anyway…
Sigh, this bites, I'm going to lay down.