Pushing the envelope

I hate starting projects. Writing ANT scripts, setting up the directory structure, configuring the IDE settings, putting all the library jars in the right place etc. I find it all immensely tedious.

I love starting projects. There's no code written, you are full of ideas, with an infinite solution space to choose from. The journey lies ahead.

So to recap, I love hate love, have mixed feelings about starting projects.

I get WebWork. Finally. For some reason I've had a mental block on it up until now. Every time I sat down to explore it something came up, or I got bored. Finally cracked it this afternoon. Turns it I was expecting something complex, and it's actually really simple. This appeared to cause me as much (or more) mental discontinuity as when I'm expecting something to be trivial, and it turns out to be much more complex.

WW really is very simple, but it lacks an 'idiots guide' which would have been very helpful to me. I'll see if I can retrace my steps and post my experiences up sometime.