Have you ever been tasked with a job that you know you can do but find it hard actually getting it done?
I need to finish off a job that requires a bit of basic PHP & MySQL integration to input data, validate and then store it so that the data can be output on other pages. I’ve also got to build a file upload section to facilitate the update of PDFs & Excel files on the server.
Now I’ve done this quite a few times before with no problem whatsoever and its always worked perfectly – when I’ve been doing something for myself. Now that I’m tasked with doing the same sort of stuff for a client my mind has decided it’s going to forget all knowledge of previous experience. And that is what is frustrating me.
Ideally I want to sign off on this project before the end of the week, and having got all the static pages designed and coded I thought “hey, no problem!”… until last week.
Having struggled with a few basic data validation issues, I thought things were moving along nicely… until yesterday (Sunday). As I found myself getting more and more frustrated I decided to start the PHP/MySQL part again so that I could start again with a fresh slate. I decided I’d give it a try this morning and went to bed.
Waking up this morning I felt confident that I’d be able to finish by this evening at the latest… how wrong could I be!
My question: What do you do when your mind goes blank and you find you can’t perform the most basic of tasks?
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Posted on March 16th, 2004 in Photography | Comments Off
