What is your Creative Juice?

You work almost 10 - 14 hours a day crunched behind your computer. You are in the web development or design arena and are always trying to think of different ways to code a website, make the css files more lightweight, zooming in at 1600% to fix that one pixel, making shadows fall properly etc…

So what makes you tick, what makes you go on and on and…. We don’t come with energizer batteries so we drink some kind of formula derived in a lab from mixing various amounts of sugar, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners and some sort of coloring, usually Red 40 or Yellow 5. From colas, to caffeine/sugar intoxicated, to natural healthy drinks this post will take a probable look at what each person in their respective profession would drink to keep on ticking.

Flash Designers/Developers - Whether you are developing the next RIA, designing a navigation system that will make everyone go gah-gah, making a full flash site { why? oh why? } you need a lot of patience as you hit Ctrl+Enter to test every little transition you make. So what is the drink of your choice? I’m guessing you might drink Red Bull and Cocaine, also maybe Upshot for a change once in a while. You need a raw buzz here, just plain highly concentrated shots of energy.

XHTML/CSS Web Designers - This bunch of designers revel in clean styles and lightweight code. Getting rid of all impurities in a CSS stylesheet by using as less lines as possible. You like the web page to look pure, natural, beautiful and just plain easy to digest. I can bet you drink Arizona Iced Tea, Snapple Iced Tea or SoBe Green Tea and when your done with a project maybe some HyDrive. It’s all about the Ginseng and Ginko here baby. You also don’t mind a can of 7UP every now and then.

photoshop Rockstars - P’shop gurus are all about the brush strokes, to make an image as good as it can get. You might get boring once in a while and drink Coca-Cola but then when inspiration hits you get crazy and knock out something absolutely amazing to become a RockStar. You also most probably drink Monster Energy Drink and Frappio.

Coders/Software Developers - These are the real heroes of the web without code there wouldn’t be a base for the internet. Some are old fashioned and can’t stay away from their Dr.Pepper’s while some prefer a buzz now and then and go with Bawls. Just don’t get them revved up otherwise they will make you scream the answer to Who’s Your Daddy with their hacks.

3D Animators - Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the Lightning McQueen seem to take a long time to render themselves. They need a time released energy drink that will kick those CPU cycles up a notch when they start slowing down. Kaboom will keep you up with it’s natural power, the next choice is Vault for a Big Boost.

The Rest of You - bloggers et al like their Starbucks and Sprite. Me personally I like a nice hot cup of black tea with some cardamom or some coffee with cream. I also like Orangina.

Of course if you get really tired, just take a nap.

I didn’t mention any alcoholic beverages here as I don’t drink alcohol and besides your code/image/3d render/RIA might look a little fuzzy if you see two of everything. Could that be why so many of the new Web 2.0 apps are buggy on launch?

Disclaimer: These are just my own assumptions, if I didn’t get it right just chill and grab a drink.

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