It's a beautiful afternoon...

Simon Brooke said:

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

Have a cup of tea.

Simonb said:

Simon Brooke wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

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

Quoted message said:

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 [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

in message <[email hidden]>, Simon

Brooke (') said:

...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 [censored]. 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*.

--
[email hidden] (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 said:

...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 <[email hidden]>, Simon

Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, Simon

Brooke (') said:

...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 [censored]. 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 said:

....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 said:

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 said:

Got the [censored]. 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 said:

Peter Clinch said:

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

Quoted message said:

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

Ambrose Nankivell said:

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.

Can you come up with a non-fattening jam doughnut? Please tell me you
can.....

Quoted message said:

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

Yes, that's all very well, but all that riding wants to be fueled by
jam doughnuts... (here, anyway...)

Best wishes,
--
,,
(**)PeeWiglet~~
/ \ / \ pee AT [guessthisbit].co.uk

Not Responding said:

Simon Brooke said:

....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).

Update: just got back from pub. That makes 33 miles of utility cycling
today (commute, marina, pub). Not a bad start to the weekend.