When I sit at work I have literally hundreds of distractions, conversations, phone calls, emails, forwarded emails, spam emails, instant messenger, jabber, blog alerts, bbc news alerts, team members, post and even the sandwich man! What sort of productivity could you expect if you took away these distractions?
Best Served Cold, the people that built uktemps are attempting to build an entire web application in a weekend! The company is made up primarily of two key developers, one of which will be building the backend systems and database, whilst the other developer will be dealing with the front end XHTML and design work.
Their idea is to build a modern web design showcase, being inspired by spending a lot of time looking around CSS showcase sites for inspiration and new ideas, however, the sites in question seem to have stood still whilst other websites have surged forwards with their technology and up to date designs.
The biggest issue in building this new site will be their time! Whenever they try to dedicate any, they end up getting distracted with work for clients and everything listed above unfortunately, it means that they never quite get stuck in and the ideas get shelved.
Solution? Take a weekend out, turn the phones off, ignore email and dedicate 12 hours a day for both days building an MVC based web application!
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