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Depends on the article. My latest two on SQL certainly took more time in writing the words than writing the queries. Together they took me about 100-150 hours to write.
The one before that, A Look under the hood of the .NET Framework, took a lot longer. I wasn't familiar with the stuff I was writing about and actually getting the code right was harder than getting the words right. I would spend hours getting the code right and looking up each and every opcode on Google and MSDN and then simply write down what I had done for the last few hours. I also did that article in both VB and C#, which also took quite some time to get right (both languages had to compile to the same IL).
And yes, a lot of time does go into fighting the submission wizard, unfortunately... 
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I am a .NET trainer, so I'm very precise about the words I use in article and the one that my trainee use. I'm used to that, and I was not before. (A C++ programmer, that, in C#, calls a "field" an "attribute" is a cardinal sin for me. The reverse is true.)
Also, I use Windows live writer to write, and post-edit the article to make it works in the wizard. Writing article in the wizard in unproductive.
If it is hard to put things into words, I tend to search for flaws in my own understanding.
Everytimes I write an article it results in major refactoring of my project. Somehow, the human language catches flaws and semantic errors in my code better than the compiler.
Writing seems harder because it catches different type of errors your machine can't detect.
You don't have to write though. Just buy a rubber duck, works also for other purpose than debugging.
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I used to use one of my bosses as a rubber duck when I had a complex problem. Since he was about as technical as my cat it worked fine, for me. For him, I think it made him feel "involved"... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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ALL THE TIME
I answer questions on an almost daily basis on Lidnug (The LI UG I help run) , and time and time again I think to my self, gee that would make a great blog post, or a great CP Article or similar...
but guess what...
It never ends up getting written.
My new years resolution this year was to start blogging properly again, at least once a month.
I've already broken that resolution.
at least however, it's not a 100 page book....
oh wait... I have another of those coming up sometime in the future too...
Rats.
Guess I'll have to invent that auto article writing code sooner than I thought then.
Shawty 
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Peter Shaw wrote: Guess I'll have to invent that auto article writing code sooner than I thought then.
Well, I hope you're going to write and article on it! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yea I am.... just as soon as I finish writing that new web app I'm on with to get 48 Hours out of a 24 hour day ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
and yes... that is a signal that copious amounts of caffeine WILL be needed.
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Explaining what you did is the hardest part, I sometimes write articles (for my employer) and they almost always end up taking me a full day worth of work, despite the fact that what I write about is something I already did for a customer.
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It's funny. Just talked about it with my mates in office this morning... Told them about my experience playing around with Intel XDK...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Erudite_Eric wrote: but when the 5% that typifies their national character rises to the fore they are complete tossers.
And that 5% is permanently to the fore in Paris...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Paris does seem to be the worst of it. Really, it is a sh*t hole. Annyone thinking of going there, dont, the food is sh*t, the people tossers, the authorities arrogant, abuseive, and will rip you off and even steal from you under threat of violence. And then you have the gypsy pick pockets...
modified 23-Feb-14 4:22am.
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And the taxi drivers who don't understand where you want to go unless you have a Paris accent...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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F*** em all. When ever I drove in Paris, I had a really sh*tty BMW 3 series, dented all over, I just used to cut the Taxi drivers up all over the place, blast them with the horm the second they didnt move quick enough, and so on . OK, I had a lot of experince driving in London, used to be a delivery driver there, taxi drivers are wimps, they will always back off because they cant afford the insurance if they dont, so yeah, if you are driving in PAris, be a c***. Its a laugh, and the pricks deserve it!
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The Parisians don't even like the French.
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By all reports, the feeling is entirely mutual!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The French prefer the English to Parisiens, I kid you not, I am Enggiish and live in France and have heard this enough to know its a fact.
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Why do you live in France then?
I live in the UK, I don't go on about things the British do that irritate me... Oh wait a second...it's a Daily mail article! The most open minded news papers in the world!
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Valery Possoz wrote: Why do you live in France then?
The wine is cheaop, the weather good, and the alps and skiing is only a few hours away.
What more reason do you need to live anywhere?
Valery Possoz wrote: I live in the UK
So give us your low down on us, its always good to be given a good slap of reality now and then.
BTW, thw Mail is a laugh, its a fun read, but to be sure, the gut really did get nicked by 'les flics'. ESF, Ecode du Ski Francais, is pretty sh*t, best lesson I ever had was a Scots guy in ITaly once, in one sentence he transformed my skiing. What he said REALLY made sense, in fact he said after he never saw such an improvement in a pupil ever. SO really, the ESF deliver a sh*t product. Its about time someone went in and showed them how its done.
Remember, if you cant be sacked, you WILL do a sh*t job. Its because peple are lazy, me included. Keep 'em keen, make them work for their jobs, and people deliver their best.
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Valery Possoz wrote: things the British do that irritate me
So one should only complain about things that one isn't familiar with?
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No worse than some Frenchies giving people in the UK "French Lessons". Oo-la-la.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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We dont arrest them for doing it though do we!
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Well, wouldn't you complain just as much if the French were in London walking all over bangers ? Or, performing Can-Can dances on the dolmens of Stonehenge ? Doing La Danse Apache with English dwarves instead of tossing them ?
I mean, it's French snow for gds'sake !
“The best hope is that one of these days the Ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away ~ leaving people with nothing more to stand ON than what they have so bloody well stood FOR up to now.” Kenneth Patchen, Poet
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Bollocls. It nothing like doing a can can in stone henge, not that I give a toss, its about the fact they want Europe only when it suits them.
We should have sided with Germany in WWi and turned France into an agricultural supply zone for the rest of Europe, its all they are good at after all. And we, the Bbritish, are Germans anyway, they are our natural allies, and always were against the French. And today they are way way easier to work with as an Engloish man. They actually really like our sense of humour mixed with the drive and skill we English bring to our work. THe French just dont know HOW to work, its all about protection, not delivering. a 100% about face different attitude we have in the UK that we share with the Germans. You secure your future by delivering a better product, not by militant action. Thats the difference.
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It does not surprise me... because even if you are french creating a company is a stupid long and complex process. (Did it a few time...)
When I heard that in england, you can get a round trip plane ticket and create your whole company in one day, I sincerely asked myself twice if I really wanted to create it in France.
I guess that these british instructors thought it would be as easy in France.
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