[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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