Howdy Coding Colleague,
your speaking directly from the heart.

I can't offer solutions just a few little things to help improve.

• Scribble some quick brainstorming thoughts on paper. This always gives the feeling of organizing things (though it need not really do that). Somewhen a line you wrote will strike you as something that can quickly be implemented - then you found your start.
• Have your editor setup to automatically insert some code fragments for you. This has the effect that you'll never have to start from scratch again. Yes, this is kind of self-betrayal, but it works (for me)
• Try to find small sub-problems of the framework that can be tested immediately and give some results. This is a technique that I use successfully at the moment in a project that will take a few months at least to get a working version running (coded in Ruby - fun!)

And I hope that others will have other solutions, tips and ideas, indeed.

Regards...	Stefan
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