Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:22:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Started the new job about a month ago now, and I'm quite enjoying the actual job itself, the people who work there (and the money they pay).

One thing however, has taken a huge hit. I was often asked by a friend of mine how I managed to get so much stuff done when juggling personal projects with a full time job. The answer has become clear since doing this "real person" thing of commuting and spending standard hours at work. My productivity has absolutely plummeted, I come home too tired to do anything computer related at all. I have ended up either collapsed onto my bed listening to music, or spending time with my newly acquired girlfriend Jo (bad timing, but not complaining). This is not because I do more work at work, but because I'm actually having to travel into work and get up early to prepare, I'm suddenly devoting thirteen hours of my day towards the job instead of the normal seven or eight hours.

I shall resolve to do something about that soon, I can't afford to not be working on my personal projects, Scrobbles or otherwise if I am not putting things out there on the internet, if I am not creating time to learn new technologies then there is little point in being a programmer at all.

Today however, I am working on Scrobbles, my work ethic has not gone anywhere and I have resolved to cross a few things off the list, as pointless at it is in light of the above.

Url re-writing is now done finally, and I'm going to push forwards with getting the rest of the things ticked off as much as possible. And I'll keep you all informed with my coping strategy for developing personal code when faced with the Real World. I think I know what my solution is, but I don't want to talk about it until I know if it is going to work.