Category Archives: code

Be proud of your patches

For the first couple years I was doing development work, whenever I found a problem with my code that noone else had caught, I always tried to sneak out a fix under the radar. I now say with much more experience and 20/20 hindsight, I was a friggin’ idiot.

I wasn’t fooling anybody, all systems designed […]

Stop bugging me, go debug yourself

The idea behind your code is brilliant, you’ve been cranking on it for hours, you’ve just fired it up to bask in all it’s glory … and nothing. Now what? Now the fun starts, it’s time for bug hunting.

As the old (smarmy) adage goes, the easiest way through debugging your application is to simply not […]