Dan- Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 11:21:40 AM, you wrote:
DS> Years of stress and far too many gray hairs led me to this bit of DS> advice I shared last weekend at RevCon West during my opening DS> keynote. I have a hard-and-fast rule NEVER to wrestle with a bug by DS> myself for longer than one hour. If I can't fix it in an hour, I get DS> help...from this list, from another programmer, or even by asking my DS> wife to sit patiently while I go over my code line by line DS> (incomprehensible jibberish to her), during the course of which it is DS> amazing how many things suddenly crystallize. DS> I was gratified and amazed at how many experienced programmers sought DS> me out to thank me for that insight at the show, so I figured it DS> would be worth sharing here. I forgot to thank you for this during the conference, so I want to remedy that publicly here: Listen, world: Dan Shafer is a Wise Man (or, as he described us at the conference, "mostly a bunch of fat old white men"). Several of us have been talking about this advice never to spend more than an hour beating our heads against the wall before seeking advice from this list or elsewhere, and it's advice that I intend to take to heart. I can't count the number of times I would have been better off begging the list for help instead of running around in circles. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution