"programming professionally (i.e. most of every day), then five years is around the point where you become self-aware and realize your code isn't as awesome as you thought"
yes i have programmed almost every day for the last 4-5 years. and it has been an year or so that i started feeling like this.. may be one reason is that that's exactly the time when i started looking a lot into well written open source code.. starting browsing open sources repo's and trying to understand how they have written code.. and when i understood I was like.. Aaahhhhh!!! that is awesome.. the best way to tackle this problem..
Thank you so much for the comprehensive reply. You are right when you say that with 4-5 years of experience I know to some extent what good and bad code is. but sometimes I think a lot and write the best code that i can, and later after some time i realize; by looking at some one else's code or by myself knowing a new feature of the language i am using, that i could have done it in a much better way .. that is much more beautiful. My problem is that if my code doesnt look like poetry to me, clean readable understandable i feel the need to improve it.
"and in the process of understanding their code you're going to see how their solution is more elegant than the naive solution you might have tried if you tried to write it just now."
That I think is a great insight for me. I have been experiencing this thing without knowing.. and the rest also gives me a lot of help... may be we always keep learning and this feeling is good to keep up
I see Play is web dev framework. As far as my system is concerned I dont need to have a full web app. The system just needs to sit in the background read the database and then request 2-3 API's for data and put that back in the db. I expect a lot of writes to the database. I am reading about Play's support for jobs. Do you still think Play is the way to go ?
I see your point. Play is a framework based in the pattern MVC. If you just don't provide any View layer, you can use the Controller to access the Model, and use the rest of the goodies Play gives you for free, like Jobs, the WS class for easy HTTP calls, a RESTFUL interface, etc.
As I said, you can always use just Quartz for the jobs (that's what Play uses anyway), and create your own Data Access Layer or use an ORM, or what you like.
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