Daniel Pitts’ Tech Blog

Recently I’ve been faced with the same lesson over and over again.  Polishing is a necessary and oft overlooked step in the creative process.  It takes significantly more effort polishing your final product than just making it work.

By “polishing” I mean putting the final pieces in place, cleaning up any mess, and making sure that your creation shines!  Often times we think about polishing only in regards to one aspect of what we create. For application programmers, it may be improving the user interface; for writers it could be reorganizing the essay.  But there is so much more that needs to sparkle.

I’ve come to the realization that I need to spend more time polishing in almost everything I do. From writing these blogs, to my personal relationship, and many levels of my programs.  Often, since I’m so enthusiastic about a topic,  I am so anxious to share the enthusiasm that I skip vital information, don’t proof read, or try to expand too much on all the implications.  Even now, I feel like expanding on other “things” that software developers need to worry about polishing (I’ll make that another post).

I’m now determined to write more polished articles, as well as and code. You can expect my future articles to be better written. I might even cleaned up and re-post so old articles.  I’ll even proof and edit before I publish. Hey, I even edited this article before I published!