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How to make a complete fool of yourself?

Raymond has a couple of words on this, but the comments are interesting. I remember once spending two hours fighting with a bug that just wouldn't go away, the application refusing to debug, and in generally not doing anything. After a very long time I noticed that the application that I was working on was mapped to /Project/ and I was working against /Project.Test/, that was not fun to discover.

 

Print | posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 10:24 PM

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# re: How to make a complete fool of yourself? 2/20/2007 1:28 AM Alex Henderson

I think everyone's been there... just recently I spent about 20 minutes trying to fix a problem with a configuration file I was editing with notepad2 under vista where the changes just didn't seem to be getting picked up, only to discover it was because the editor was never actually saving the changes to disk (Vista was silently preventing it, the file was in C:\Program Files\ ) If I'd just closed and reopened the file It would've been immediately apparent.... but my problem solving was just temporarily turned off altogether so I blithely kept trying different config changes ;o)

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# ASP.NET 2.0:1, Bil:0 2/20/2007 8:53 AM Fear and Loathing

I just spent the better part of the evening chasing down the dumbest error I've ever seen. ASP.NET decided

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