I see this being applied in two places,

• More general work habits, and
• More specific coding or even development styles.

General work habits

I have to admit that my own work habits are a little haphazard. I flit from here to there, rarely focussing on something for a long period of time. Currently I'm a) watching all of my servers using Nagios, b) keeping an eye on internal E-Mail (pine), c) running two delete document scripts, d) watching a smaller group of servers (xload, qstat, top), e) keeping tabs on personal E-Mail (GMail), f) reading SlashDot and g) browsing perl Monks. I am really in the middle of h) upgrading application server software on two matched servers, one in Toronto and one in Mumbai. I have a cup of coffee that's half gone, and a cell phone on my desk. I have MP3s of songs I have to learn when I have time.

Specific development styles

I started writing something on my own time using CGI::APplication and Template::Toolkit and while it's been frustrating at times, it's also worked well. I've got a huge overarching vision of what I want this to be when it's done but I've had to focus on a small, small subset of the task at hand and get that running first.

Sometimes it's hard to have the discipline to do that, but if that's what it takes, OK.

Jigsaws? Not crazy about them

My wife is actually the jigsaw person in the house. I have too much other stuff to do, to have to think about (or even do) jigsaw puzzles.