Idea Is Officially Back

That's right folks.  It's back.  Because I was so burnt out last semester, I decided to take a semester off of school to work full time.  However, it is a call center and I am not a salesman.  Since I am not performing very well at work, I decided to switch to a less intense division of the company.  Most that work this part of the company are students working part-time.  Plus, my brain is bored.  I want a challenge.

Around this time, a friend of mine mentioned this event at the end of the semester where students can present a project of their own creation to a panel of judges who will give feedback and compare it to the other projects in a contest.  The winner gets some award and it goes in his/her resume.  This got me thinking.  This could be my chance to restart Idea.

If you look at the beginning of this blog, you will see that Idea has been floating in the back of my mind for a long time.  It was my first real project, and it went through a number of iterations before I set it on the back-burner to make way for Sever.  Sever, I thought, was a simpler, more practical project for my limited skill set and resources.  Little did I know, even Sever would grow too big for me.

I have come to realize that in order to finish anything without a full team of programmers working full-time, my projects will have to be limited to proofs of concept.  With that in mind, Idea becomes much more doable.  I no longer have to worry about the best way to store and update mass amounts of data.  I can instead keep it simple, though inefficient, so that I can focus on the project as a whole.  Besides, no one is going to be using this version seriously.  The chances that it will ever need to accommodate large amounts of data are small.  That can come later.

As with every new iteration, I have made significant changes.  If you've read my last post, you'll know that I was unsure about how to link ideas.  This time around, the answer just came to me almost as if I had always known it.  It made so much sense that I assumed it wasn't anything new.  I had already begun coding it when I stopped and realized that I had just completely changed the way things worked and had utterly solved one of my biggest dilemmas without blinking an eye.  It was exciting.

I switch to part-time in five days.  The switch is solely for the sake of Idea, so I am committed to it.  I am excited and intend to work hard on it daily.

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