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A Typical Delphi Programmer Day - How Does That Look For You?

Typical Day-To-Day Delphi Programmer Tasks

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I've been programming for the last, uh, 20+ years. I guess many of you have the same number of years on your programming back.

Be it an entry level programmer or a solution architect I suppose your typical day-to-day tasks sometimes feel like "déjà vu".

My Typical Programming Day

Yes, there are days when some non-common situations happen, but in most cases I could say that my day in programming, in most cases, looks like:
  1. Day starts: startup my dev. machine.
  2. 1 hour. Read (support) emails. I'm the project manager (and the main developer/arhitect) for several applications my company develops. Support is handled on email basis - the first thing to do is to see if there are any program related queries and/or new demo requests.
  3. 1 hour. Finishing of the (programming) tasks we started yesterday - to ensure everything that was done yesterday can be compiled and works as expected.
  4. 30 minutes. Read/answer more support emails.
  5. 30 minutes. Discussing with the team about the new features and changes to be done today.
  6. 2 hours. Implementing new features in the application.
  7. 30 minutes. Read/answer more support emails.
  8. 1 hour. Demoing the applications to interested (future) clients over the web.
  9. 1 hour. More development.
  10. 30 minutes. Browsing the Internet for "fun". Visiting Delphi related pages to see if there are any new interesting articles being posted.
  11. Twitter. Facebook. Shut down machine.
That sums to some 8 hours. Of course, most days somehow happen to be more toward 10 hours :)

How about you? What does your typical day-to-day task look?

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