Mama! Help me! (dev)

What do you do when you’re looking at one of your “bugs” (for ex. in your APEX application) and you just don’t see it?

Some people do:

• look at it again, keep looking at it, still looking at it, …

• get mad about their pc

• start crying in front of their pc

• kill themself without their pc

But you can also do:

• go for a walk and come back with a “fresh” head and have another look

• use Firefox and Firebug to track things down

• write down what’s happening and is going wrong, you would be surprised to see you didn’t see the “obvious”

• start talking about it to yourself or to another

• ask somebody else to have a quick glance at your code

• post a thread in the forum

• debug, trace, …

I also sometimes think “this can’t be true”, what am I doing wrong? But then I think it’s technology and you’ll always find a way to get it working, it’s just a matter of time…

We don’t have that much time, as we all have tight deadlines, but some of the above points will help you to find the solution faster. And learn from it, put it into best practices so you don’t make that mistake again.

YOU CAN DO IT! IT’S JUST A MATTER OF TIME! AND IT’S FUN!