It's a beautiful afternoon...

....and I want to be out on my bike. And I have /one more bug/ before I
can package this lot up, sign it off, and ship it to the customer...

And I just can't see it.

I am losing the will to debug, here...

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
"The result is a language that... not even its mother could
love. Like the camel, Common Lisp is a horse designed by
committee. Camels do have their uses."
;; Scott Fahlman, 7 March 1995

Simon Brooke wrote:

I am losing the will to debug, here...

Have a cup of tea.

Simonb wrote:
Simon Brooke wrote:

I am losing the will to debug, here...

Have a cup of tea.

Or, more practically, go for a ride. The insidious invisible bugs
generally take coming back to them after a break to spot, if your coding
cockups are anything much like mine...

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

in message , Simon
Brooke ') wrote:

...and I want to be out on my bike. And I have /one more bug/ before I
can package this lot up, sign it off, and ship it to the customer...

And I just can't see it.

I am losing the will to debug, here...

Got the *******. It was using hard coded default id/password to talk to
the database at server startup time, rather than reading them from
config. Nailed. Going out for a ride *NOW*.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

The Conservative Party is now dead. The corpse may still be
twitching, but resurrection is not an option - unless Satan
chucks them out of Hell as too objectionable even for him.

Simon Brooke wrote:
...and I want to be out on my bike. And I have /one more bug/ before I
can package this lot up, sign it off, and ship it to the customer...

And I just can't see it.

I am losing the will to debug, here...

go for a fast ride. You'll find the bug will end up stuck in your
teeth on in one of your eyes

divides by zero and dies
james

In article , Simon
Brooke wrote:

in message , Simon
Brooke ') wrote:

...and I want to be out on my bike. And I have /one more bug/ before I
can package this lot up, sign it off, and ship it to the customer...

And I just can't see it.

I am losing the will to debug, here...

Got the *******. It was using hard coded default id/password to talk to
the database at server startup time, rather than reading them from
config. Nailed. Going out for a ride *NOW*.

Enjoy

I'm stuck here for another hour, then I have a lovely ride home through
Bushy Park. And the sun has come out.

Simon Brooke wrote:
....and I want to be out on my bike. And I have /one more bug/ before I
can package this lot up, sign it off, and ship it to the customer...

And I just can't see it.

I am losing the will to debug, here...


Just to make you feel better, I buggered off out of the office at 1230
and have just come back from an afternoon's boat prep for the weekend.

It promises to be sublime sailing weather and I'll be casting off within
30 mins of the end of Speech Day at my daughters' school tomorrow
(having been told that yes, I do have to be there and, no, I can't make
excuses).

I'll be taking the Dahon so I can even go for a bike ride on Sunday
morning (if I end up near a road).

Peter Clinch wrote:

Or, more practically, go for a ride. The insidious invisible bugs
generally take coming back to them after a break to spot, if your coding
cockups are anything much like mine...


I'll second that - I have had many coding epiphanies whilst out on a
bike ride.

I have also:-

Resolved the Iraq situation.
Sorted out the nations health.
Decided what can be done to fix our roads.
Realised what's wrong with my boiler.

--
Chris

Simon Brooke wrote:


Got the *******. It was using hard coded default id/password to talk to
the database at server startup time, rather than reading them from
config. Nailed. Going out for a ride *NOW*.


ah HA! Schoolboy error number 3, after:

if (foo=0)
when you mean
if (foo==0)

and

if (foo==0);
when you mean
if (foo==0)
;

Enjoy the ride - I'm going to try a 200k tomorrow.

--
Chris

Chris wrote:
Peter Clinch wrote:

Or, more practically, go for a ride. The insidious invisible bugs
generally take coming back to them after a break to spot, if your
coding cockups are anything much like mine...


I'll second that - I have had many coding epiphanies whilst out on a
bike ride.

I have also:-

Resolved the Iraq situation.

Not very well

Sorted out the nations health.

Not very well

Perhaps you could take a few more bike rides and sort it out a bit more. I'd
like stable government, civil liberties and prosperity in Iraq, and
increased appetite, improved digestion, better sleep and no hay fever for
this 60 millionth of the nation's health.

Cheers.

Either way, it's an excuse to ride more.

--
Ambrose