A Total Lack Of Focus

It could be said that over the past month, ok about 3,  I have been totally unfocussed. It happens, the day job picks up and usually family life kicks up a notch at the same time. Suddenly I lack the energy for personal projects or anything that take more than a bit of an effort.

What does this mean. Well the effort is usually in the finishing part of the projects so what is actually means is when I have been coding it has been on small projects that I don't finish. So while the number of ideas I have had an implemented is quite highI have not really finished many of them.

I am not beating myself up over this. Life does sometimes get in the way. What I need to do is get back into the rhythm of releasing code. A couple of stumbling blocks I can see is that the dart language is not quite there for production quality apps (it is still alpha). I seem to find it quite easy to write code that is not compatible with say FireFox. I briefly pondered heading back into coffee script for a while.

It is not actually a bad idea, In a years time Dart will probably be quite good at cross browser stuff. CoffeeScript is pretty cool, but at the moment I really just want to  use one language and actually produce code rather than thinking I will use CoffeeScript for a year and jump languages later on.

So as I am sticking with the Dart Language and I want to publish stuff I am just going to have to be careful and test really well.  Dart  has a whole host bugs where canvas stuff if just not working or there seems to be no reasonable cross broswer support for requestAnimationFrame. I am sure there others and they are fixing as fast as they can.

Dart is improving at a reasonable pace.

I just need to get my brain into gear. Motivation has been pretty low but hopefully over the Christmas break I will regain the mojo :)