What's your caffeinated poison?

snow · December 14th, 2006, 07:21 PM

I'm in a bit of a tricky situation at the moment... I have an exam at 9am tomorrow, and a prototype demonstration at 2pm. I've revised half the material for the exam and I have to read a CSV file to a DB through a JSP and servlet as well as cleaning up a lot of code for the prototype. I estimate it's all going to take me about 8 hours... unfortunately in my time zone it's now quater past midnight. Oh, and I've had about 12 hours sleep in the last 3/4 days...

Bring on the Caffeine!!!

Currently I've had two cans of Irn-bru and am going to start drinking coffee now. What do you guys do to perk yourselves up for an enjoyable night of coding?

Daniel · December 14th, 2006, 07:30 PM

eat chocolate

snow · December 14th, 2006, 07:35 PM

Chocolate relaxes me, it doesn't wake me up - although the box of after-eights in my cupboards is calling to me...

Daniel · December 14th, 2006, 07:41 PM

karloff · December 14th, 2006, 07:59 PM

irn bru myself - made from girdurs

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tea is pretty good as well. there is more caffeine in tea than coffee ... so i heard anyway

snow · December 14th, 2006, 08:01 PM

Really?? I thought tea was relaxing for me...

karloff · December 14th, 2006, 08:06 PM

aye, i try not to have caffeine after 7pm or i canny sleep at night. a can of bru or a cup of teea keeps me up for ages (i must sound like a grampa here, lol)

Ryan Fait · December 14th, 2006, 08:29 PM

Caffeine doesn't really effect me unless I have it in large quantities (e.g. 4 or 5 energy drinks in a row). I love iced tea, though. I really don't like soda, and I've not been having coffee much for the past few months because I used to have 3-4 Venti Starbucks Americanos a day.

snow · December 14th, 2006, 08:35 PM

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I used to have 3-4 Venti Starbucks Americanos a day.

Lol, that'll be why caffeine doesn't work for you then!

I don't think I could rely on my natural perkiness to get me through a night of coding...

Ryan Fait · December 14th, 2006, 08:59 PM

Haha, I get insomnia when I code. I'm glad I don't code very much, but when I get into projects, I'll stay up for 36 hours without caffeine.

snow · December 14th, 2006, 09:17 PM

Hah, what a geek!

Ryan Fait · December 14th, 2006, 09:33 PM

I know. I haven't done that for a couple of months, though. I usually stick to XHTML/CSS, but I've got this cool PHP web app I'm building. It's a major project, and I can't stand to work on it longer than a week or so.

JacobHaug · December 15th, 2006, 01:01 AM

hahaha...lol

Sleep...?? What is that...is that a religion?

snow · December 15th, 2006, 02:22 AM

I'm beginning to forget...

I haven't managed to get any of my prototype worked on... but I did finish all the revision for my exam, taking place in 2 hours! Of course, there won't be a chance to sleep before it! Oh well - as long as the black dots don't interfere too much, I'm sure I'll be fine!

I'm going to use the 3ish hours between the exam and my presentation to make a quick fix on my program (I hope), so that it kinda looks like it's doing what I told everyone it would...

And I only had one cup of coffee in the end (on top of the irn-brus) so I'm feeling quite proud of myself!

Snow

JacobHaug · December 15th, 2006, 02:40 AM

hehehe...lol

spinal007 · December 15th, 2006, 05:03 AM

I drink 3 or 4 cups of coffee in the morning, plus several during the day, and if I'm working late, I'll have one every hour....

And trust me, caffeine is bad!!!

Daniel · December 15th, 2006, 05:19 AM

i dont drink coffee or tea and i still cant get to sleep before 4 and i get up at 6 :o

Ryan Fait · December 15th, 2006, 05:20 AM

The worst is when you get headaches if you don't get enough caffeine...

Daniel · December 15th, 2006, 05:28 AM

eh does that happen?

Ryan Fait · December 15th, 2006, 05:39 AM

Yeah... I got horribly painful headaches for a couple of days after I went cold turkey on the Americano's.