tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188141.post115137594636072948..comments2007-03-10T00:23:27.811-05:00Michael Sicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09189751750240192948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188141.post-1151449669124039982006-06-27T19:07:00.000-04:002006-06-27T19:07:00.000-04:00Thanks John.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, if I was using J2EE, I'd probably still be configuring my layer abstractions factory pattern xml thingy. ;)Michael Sicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09189751750240192948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188141.post-1151411351938797412006-06-27T08:29:00.000-04:002006-06-27T08:29:00.000-04:00Don't give yourself such a hard time, man. Buying a house is one of the most stressful things in life! Or maybe that's just in the UK. And you've got to keep at the day job to pay the bills.<BR/><BR/>I know what you mean about gearing up for work, I'm the same. I find that it's best not to build it up in your mind as this big important thing - remember, it's supposed to be fun! Start off by tackling something really simple that you know you can get done. For example, last night I eased myself into some coding by deciding to take some tables that I'm displaying and change them so the data is displayed in the correct order. Okay so that's a trival thing to do using ActiveRecord, but it got me going and was another step along the journey. I then went on to tackle something bigger.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, you got some code written, so that's the main thing. Imagine would you would have got done in that hour if you were still using J2EE - very little probably!John Topleyhttp://www.johntopley.com/noreply@blogger.com