>>>I want to know if i am not the one, any of you loose a client for delaying in programming and do not finish in the date you promise to finish
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>>>Or anyone of you loose a job or client because you do not know enoguth of certain task to do and can not do it?
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>>>For example to install my vb.net application in a operative system windows server 2008 i had to install sql server agian with other additional software, i hoped to finish it in one day but it takes me about 5 days to accomplished it.
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>>>How do you lift your spirit?
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>>I find something else to do for a while - a day or two - and let my brain fix the problem in the background. When I get back to it, it's almost as if I had a new pair of eyes. I see it differently and then try a different approach. Also, the principle of Auntie Emma helps - by either trying to explain your problem to a colleague, or trying to document it, you push it through your head in a different way and thus see things you didn't see while you were alone with the problem in your head.
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>Often getting up and walking to get a bit of water would allow me to solve a problem. Many software developers I know have a joke about waking up at 2 AM and having the solution to a problem. That is too real for many people. Your suggestions are good and I hope that others follow them.

At one place I worked, I would take printout to our secretary's desk and, having made sure I wasn't interrupting anything, would sit down and tell her what the code was doing - or, better said, what I *thought* I'd told the code to do. Generally the session would end with me saying "and here's where I do....wait a minute....what the hell?" and I'd go wandering back to my office.

She often told me that she had no idea what I was talking about, as she wasn't a programmer. I'd tell her that making myself explain the code to her, I found the issue much faster than if I stared at the screen for hours.

As for the 2AM thing, back in the college days - when dinosaurs walked the earth and everyone was on mainframes - I'd be driving home, having finally given up on finding the solution, and it would pop into my brain. And I'd ALWAYS be closer to home than school.