Chatting sometimes can be really helpful

I just finished a one-hour session with a friend of mine. It has stired up a lot of thoughts and it has given me material about my actual situation to think about for at least a couple of weeks. 

I want to code something for my own site. A blog roll block manager and a bugzilla-like manager for my eventual clients.

Blextar has handed me a small work in PHP. I am planning to spend less than 10 hours on it. I think it’s worth the money I will get. The problem is that I need to write my scripts to manage the worst-designed database I ever encountered in my short programmer life. Unusued fields, one-to-many and many-to-many relations mixed in a single table. I spent most of the 3 hours I dedicated to the project today to figure out how the database was built and which improvements I could apply. Note for future works: reading your own code is a whole lot easier than customizing one’s scripts, unless they are well-coded and commented (which is not the case).