Slight frustration...

I have not had very much time to spend on the project over the last few days. This has been frustrating for me, but I think the extra time away from development has allowed me to mull over a few details.</p><p>My frustration seems to have disappeared this morning when I realized what I've actually accomplished while not actually sitting down and "doing work" at the machine. My logged hours since the weekend amounts to a big goose egg, yet I feel as if I did weeks of design work and planning over that period. Lots of 'figgerin' has been done and I am starting to get a better grasp of the direction I should take.</p><p>If I remember correctly, I am up to about 52 hours of total work. Lots more time than it sounds like, since I only log productive time. I read somewhere that people get less than 3 hours of productive work a day (averaged over the week) in a typical office job (understandable, due to the amount of distractions and such), which would put me at 17.3 days, or 3 business weeks plus two business days. I'm almost at a man-month! ;) I started working on all of this around June 4th, with a month off in between to move, which means it has taken almost three months to come up with a man month of productive work. I have to really ramp up if I want to get a release out around the time I'm thinking it'll happen.</p><p>A great majority of the time I have spent on the project during the last few weeks has been dedicated to learning activities. Since this project is especially important to me personally, I have found that my retention skills have been outstanding over the weekend. We will see how well that I can apply what I've learned during the next few days that I work on the project. I think that with my fresh Cocoa Bindings knowledge, I will be able to complete a substantial amount of work towards one of my first releases by the end of the weekend. </p><p>As usual, we will have to see just how much my optimism during the week actually translates into work done over the weekend. :)</p><p>There's so much more I could write here, yet so little time… :P</p><p></p>