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Thursday 2nd January 2003

Debuging Methods

This is the second approach to problem-solving when developing. The approaches are standard to all developers and run thus: When you're stuck on a piece of code, the first thing to try is to rename all your variables and all your dialog boxes using the filthiest words you can dream up. For some reason if the aim of your code was to pop up a dialog box or message, the minute you re-label that dialog box "yo mamma's flappin' box", the sodding thing will come up without fail. [More]

This is Really True. And the reason why my weblog contain(ed - I deleted it this morning) a variable called "$stupidFuckingCacheDisplayDamnYou"

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Dorothea Salo:

2003-01-02 22:10 14 mins after the Original Article

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I am seriously going to have to try this. I can’t believe I never have.

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dearg:

2003-01-04 12:37 2 days after the Original Article

Bit late, I know, but I just spotted this.

Having problems with Network Neighbourhood in Win ME, in a file called nethood.htt.

One of the functions in there is called ‘IveGotThemNetworkingBlues’.

Seems M$ have heard of this kind of debugging method, then :)

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pat:

2004-06-29 18:57 1 yr after dearg

I’m not very computer literate but I’m having the same problems! Could you give me any more info?

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