metal&gin | (a weblog by craig t mackenzie)

I’ve become quite demotivated at work lately, I’m pretty sure it’s due to the lack of varied and interesting work, all I seem to be doing is various site amends and other little bits and pieces.

It could also be down to the fact that a lot of the older sites here, the ones which were designed / developed before the arrival of myself and Ian Weir (awesome designer guy) are pretty horrible, like really really bad. more on that another day.

I guess just having to actually spend time looking at these sites, and having to go in there and edit the god awful code is really really depressing. another factor has got to be that nearly all of our clients seem to be really boring, like gardening things and other such inspiring subjects.

what I’m really looking forward to however is a great project i’ve got coming up which involves melting about 5 sites which are all a mix of flash, html into one big Rails powered mega site.

I’ve been itching to get my hands really dirty at work with something like this and I can’t wait. My only concern is that I’ll end up being distracted every couple of minutes to answer stupid questions, and to make more of the above mentioned mind numbing amends to sites I hate. I guess I can live in hope that the powers that be realise that I am but one person with one attention span, and when I’m programming it’s the code which need’s my full attention, not anything else.