I wrote this fantastic stored procedure that ran for 4 hours, and made this great summary for the managers once every month. It was tight code. Then I did a simple one afternoon project that put a barcode on some documents so that the shipping guys wouldn't have to type in the 18 digit lot codes over and over. I did it with a couple subroutines downloaded from CompuServe. That big report summary was a ho-hum event for the company, but the barcodes project had them singing my praises until the day my contract was over.
Slick programming is only slick when it benefits the users.
Never lose sight of that. This is one of the coolest things I have seen so far. I tried to do good web buttons, where the image changed whenever you put the mouse over them. But I kept screwing up the Javascript. If you want mouseover buttons, first design all your on and off buttons, then go here .