[Catalyst] Re: trouble with model->dbic resultset
Dave Howorth
dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Thu Dec 6 13:13:22 GMT 2007
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Michael Higgins <linux at evolone.org> [2007-12-05 22:40]:
>> Isn't that some general principle, you find the error just
>> after emailing a whole bunch of people?
>
> Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your
> code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain
> the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few
> sentences, followed by an embarrassed “Never mind. I see
> what’s wrong. Sorry to bother you.” This works remarkbly
> well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One
> university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help
> desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain
> them to the bear before they could speak to a human
> counselor.
>
> —Brian W Kernighan, Rob Pike, “The Practice of Programming”
>
> Reportedly, this noticably reduced the load on the understaffed
> centre.
We had a teddy bear at one place I worked. I can testify first- and
second-hand that it worked well :)
Cheers, Dave
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