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[geekchick]

Today is Boomtime, day 67 in the season of Chaos, 3270.

I'm quite possibly insane for actually enjoying writing documentation, right? I keep toying with the idea of taking some intro to technical writing classes, but it's low enough on the priority list that I never quite get around to it. It's been a good geek day here (mmm, optimized code), my brain is actually switched on today and I've been fairly productive for a Monday. Go me.

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[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Many was the time I wished just that sort of insanity would strike a teammate.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Um, no. Writing documentation is fun. Although I may be in the minority over this...

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I enjoy it, too. Maybe we're both just weird ;-)

[yy2bggggs.livejournal.com]

What kind of documentation?

[geekchick]

Maybe we're both just weird ;-)

Oh no, I'm sure that couldn't be it. ;)

[geekchick]

Mostly just process documentation right now. I'm getting some of technical staff's duties put down in written form so that if the office blows up and we're all permanently unavailable for consultation, someone else could step in to pick things up and have a bit of a roadmap.

[geekchick]

I think it's fun too, but I know far too many developers who seem to be allergic to the idea. I also like to comment my code a fair amount, but to be honest that's less because it's fun and more because if I don't, I'll have forgotten what the heck I was trying to do when I look at it again in six months. ;)

[yy2bggggs.livejournal.com]

Ah... you were discussing optimized code. I was under the impression that you were documenting that. Now it sounds like you're on the next project. Or maybe you're in the middle somewhere.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Yes, go you. I'm glad you had a productive Monday.

Actually, I could see where writing documentation would be very interesting -- sort of dissecting and explaining how something works. Cool.

[geekchick]

I'm working on about five different things at once, actually. It's a small office, there's always a ton of stuff that needs done at any given time. The documentation was unrelated to the code stuff, which was managing to speed up a perl script that I was using to do some log parsing and user tracking by a significant amount because frankly I did things in a stupid manner the first time through. (But hey, it got me the information I needed. Kludges 'R Me. ;) )

[geekchick]

Well, to be honest, the documentation action item was imposed upon me from above. That's okay though, because I actually don't mind doing it at all. Frankly most days I'd rather write docs than write code. ;)