You ever have those programming moments where

[infernosnow]

you spend hours trying to troubleshoot an error and you finally figure it out and you're so happy that you finally did you're like

"YESSSSS $@#*ing YESSS I FIGURED IT OUT WOOOOOO OH YEAH"

also applies to when you've just finished programming something extremely complex. That's the most rewarding feeling ever.

[daveystew]

Absolutely! And thank goodness the AS3 compiler is so much more informative than the AS2 version. I'd probably have chucked myself off a bridge months ago if not.

Yeah, finishing something complex is amazing. Even more so when you've done it elegantly!

I often think of that scene at the end of The Matrix where Neo sees the entire corridor in code, stops the bullet and everything goes into slow motion. When you have a good day it feels just like that, and you can't get your ideas out of your head quick enough onto the screen!

I love my job!

[Ciubhran]

Had this moment recently when I realized that the URLVariablesDataFormat.VARIABLES made my application crash every time it couldn't connect to the server.

Swapped to .TEXT and then all of a sudden it actually started throwing IOErrorEvents that I could handle and get rid of all the crashes!

[-Ev-]

That's part of what I love about programming. It exercises the problem solving parts of your brain. It's very satisfying to iterate over a task and remove the glitches until it finally works perfectly. Though it can also be ridiculously frustrating.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I also love the feeling after spending an hour writing a new batch of code, then compiling it and seeing it work flawlessly the first time.