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About Me
- Name: Nigel Fernandes
- Location: Panjim, Goa, India
Crazy, dancing, programming, Goan.. I'm a computer geek and proud to be one. I program in Java, Ruby and .Net, PHP, Javascript. A lot of my recent work has been about CSS and UI design practices for large scale websites and Agile teams. I still while away hours dreaming up a web startup.
Defeating the wall
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Every developer hits the wall. Depending on your fortune and skill that maybe a rare or frequent strike.The wall could be a challenging problem, big upfront designs, legacy code, stupid people or maybe a combination of all of the above.
My personal strategy for coping with the wall is a simple 3 step process
Step 1: Walk away for a few minutes.
Step 2: Come back and break the problem into smaller pieces.
Step 3: Tackle the smaller pieces.
Image from http://kwc.org/blog/archives/2005/2005-07-27.comiccon_sketches_best_of_the_rest.html
Labels: agile, Problem solving, thoughts
