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Originally Posted by KarTek
As crazy as it sounds, I get a lot on inspiration in the shower. I've come up with many creative solutions and inventions that way. I don't think you can just "invoke" creativity because I find that I have to be totally thinking about something else when inspiration comes.
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That is 100% true. Every idea/solution for the past few years has come to me in the shower. As long as I am thinking of a problem when I get in, a solution comes within moments.
This morning I realized that an implementation issue is one issue I need to resolve, specifically, redundant customer databases.
Last summer I wanted to use a common database for all our customers, regardless of which of three different products/services they were utilizing, each under different brands. Using Toyota/Lexus as a metaphor, a colleague insisted that it would be confusing for Lexus customers to be redirected to a Toyota web page (even though it is the same company). I agreed and we created a second database for customers subscribing to our second service.
This morning (in the shower) I realized that, rather than build a separate database, to instead have the users submit, and carry forward through the process, a data flag unique to the specific service they are subscribed to when they access their data records. This flag/widget would tell the database script to display web pages with the specific brand’s design elements, while accessing a common data file.
So, that’s one major problem that just became minor.
