It happens with all people who are working for big companies i.e. more no of employees. Key to get out of this is to get selfish. Work on the things you want e

It happens with all people who are working for big companies i.e. more no of employees. Key to get out of this is to get selfish. Work on the things you want even when you are in office. :) Compress regular work in smaller chunks and keep promise to you that I would write atleast 50 lines of good code everyday. Am sure you do this for 7 days and you know what to do next to reach there. Getting started is the important thing. Get away from HN/programming.redddit; work on small snippet; be happy and then search anybody has done similar thing. Discovering similar/better/quicker approach to your code i.e. whatever would boost your confidance especially when you can write code without google search. So that helps to get back to books/api documentation. And suddenly you become a programmer you want to be. I know this sounds pretty simple but that is the key. google appengine + small JQuery/Prototype project can help anyone to get started