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I don't think there is a method to it : as a developer you should see a lot of opportunities to automate things in your daily life. If not you probably need som

I don't think there is a method to it : as a developer you should see a lot of opportunities to automate things in your daily life. If not you probably need some hobbies outside the dev world. I started coding about 10 years ago because I wanted to make a better bot for World Of Warcraft than what was available. Literally if it wasn't for WOW and an obnoxious coder that wouldn't share his bot code I wouldn't be a developer today ! Among more recent projects, I made a "green" script to encode videos at night while electricity is cheaper, a tool to extract, rename and classify rared / ziped nested ebooks (obtained from dubious sources ;-), another tool to analyze and optimize my chances at winning on football (soccer) bets (let me say it didn't work very well).

collyw 11y ago
Sorry that sounds a bit nonsense to me. All the things I enjoy doing outside of work involve getting away from the computer as much as possible. Mountain biking, kayaking, drinking. Cooking is about the only hobby that could involve something, but there are a ton of cooking related websites.
- paperrr1 11y ago
  Make a mountainn biking application. Or one for kayaking! Or how about script that will crawl various websites and map the locations of various pubs that have various craft beers on tap? See, I just came up with a viable application you could develope in literally 20 seconds.
- tyurok 11y ago
  The fact that there's a ton of related websites shouldn't ever stop you from doing a simple side project, since it's for learning purposes anyway. And a "copy" of something can always shift into something original.
  - collyw 11y ago
    I am doing a work related side project, as I think there might be more business opportunity in it. Plus its what I know well.
- DanBC 11y ago
  Mountain biking: route planning; journey mapping; distance logging; GPS direction showing; etc etc. For someone who wants ideas you use your non-computer hobbies as somewhere to get ideas.
  - collyw 11y ago
    I don't need any of that. I don't see the point in tech for the sake of it.

collyw 11y ago

Sorry that sounds a bit nonsense to me. All the things I enjoy doing outside of work involve getting away from the computer as much as possible. Mountain biking, kayaking, drinking. Cooking is about the only hobby that could involve something, but there are a ton of cooking related websites.

paperrr1 11y ago
Make a mountainn biking application. Or one for kayaking! Or how about script that will crawl various websites and map the locations of various pubs that have various craft beers on tap? See, I just came up with a viable application you could develope in literally 20 seconds.
tyurok 11y ago
The fact that there's a ton of related websites shouldn't ever stop you from doing a simple side project, since it's for learning purposes anyway. And a "copy" of something can always shift into something original.
- collyw 11y ago
  I am doing a work related side project, as I think there might be more business opportunity in it. Plus its what I know well.
DanBC 11y ago
Mountain biking: route planning; journey mapping; distance logging; GPS direction showing; etc etc. For someone who wants ideas you use your non-computer hobbies as somewhere to get ideas.
- collyw 11y ago
  I don't need any of that. I don't see the point in tech for the sake of it.