Mimír just told me why Windows Vista will be late. One of the reasons is that the developers are only writing 5000 lines of code per year. This is only slightly less than the national average of 6200 lines of code.

That's just shocking!

My latest project, a web page to collect donations for a full page ad, took me about a month and a half to complete. It was done with RoR so it comes with the ability to tally up lines of code. In total I wrote 3062 lines of code. That includes actual application code, 2229, and test code, 833.

I have no idea if my rate is typical, below average, or above. What I know now says that another two months of coding will cause me to cross the national lines of code average. And keeping up the rate for that last project, in one year I will have surpassed the national average by 18,292 lines of code (3062 / 1.5 * 12 - 6200).

You can call me Super Coder.