Half a wasted day...

Derokorian

So I just spent half a day on a problem with jquery ui and an error saying object has no method dialog. I wrote up this big long post for you guys to be able to help me out and it turns out the problem was simple: I had used type="text/ javascript" notice the space after the slash... F*** that sucks. Thought you guys might enjoy my stupid headache.

jeepin81

I've had my fair share of those days... Or I've run into the situation were I'm going to reply to a post, only to see that it was answered while typing - Brad is usually the prime suspect 😉

Another thing for me personally is, we use Lotus Notes at work and I feel like sometimes I'm searching for hours just trying to find an old email b/c the search in Lotus is the worst. Actually, Lotus all together is the worst! We saved a lot $$$ though - which equals happy penguins upstairs.

Weedpacket

You're not alone: D'OH!.

Steve_R_Jones

I recently copied a command line from my pc to a clients pc... For what ever reason all nine of the forward slashes turned into back slashes... Thought I was loosing my mind when I kept comparing the two... Guess if you look at something long enough - you see what you want to see:eek:

Bunkermaster

These things happen to everyone. I once spent a good hour trying to figure out why some (old legacy system) form had stopped working as intended to finally realize that firefox had been updated automatically and that selected was not acceptable anymore. That day selected="selected" became mandatory...
Thank FSM I now have phpstorm telling me about my basic code mistakes.

Bonesnap

My favourite one of these is I spent at least 45 minutes trying to figure out why some CSS changes I was making weren't working. I started Googling, rewriting entire sections of the CSS file, loading different browsers, etc. and it turned out I didn't upload the CSS file.

Bunkermaster

Hahaha I did that too! Or you upload it to the wrong directory. Been there, done that 😃

dalecosp

Weedpacket;11008195 wrote:
You're not alone: D'OH!.

D'oh! Indeed ... 😛

Corrected link: D'OH!

Derokorian: sorry about your half-wasted day. But the bright side (I assume): you still get paid. 🙂

NogDog

Seems like at least once a week I'll spend some inordinate amount of time testing queries, var_dump()-ing arrays, and whatnot, and then realize my horribly complex bug that must be the result of a subtle logic error is, in fact, one mistyped variable name.

bradgrafelman

I often miss dealing with PHP. I'd say my language use at work is now more like 85% C, 10% Python, 5% assembly.

Still amazes me how some of the simplest errors (misplaced brace, missing semicolon, etc.) can cause a C compiler to vomit cryptic error messages all over the screen.

laserlight

bradgrafelman wrote:
Still amazes me how some of the simplest errors (misplaced brace, missing semicolon, etc.) can cause a C compiler to vomit cryptic error messages all over the screen.

Have you tried C++ with the use of template libraries? 😃

Bunkermaster

NogDog;11008683 wrote:
Seems like at least once a week I'll spend some inordinate amount of time testing queries, var_dump()-ing arrays, and whatnot, and then realize my horribly complex bug that must be the result of a subtle logic error is, in fact, one mistyped variable name.

I used to have those. Now my IDE shows me that the variable is not set and highlights other occurrences of the variable. Makes it a lot harder to make that mistake. Now I could code while drunk! No, I don't do that. But I could!

dalecosp

Bunkermaster;11008733 wrote:
I used to have those. Now my IDE shows me that the variable is not set and highlights other occurrences of the variable. Makes it a lot harder to make that mistake. Now I could code while drunk! No, I don't do that. But I could!

I guess I need to try your IDE. Not that I drink ... it's just that my top code quality is likely equal to yours after a quart of Jagermeister, or Weedpacket's whilst unconscious after a bike accident w/o a helmet.... 😃

Bunkermaster

Don't underestimate yourself! The force is strong with you!

That said, make your life easier, use a proper IDE. I switched to Jetbrain's PhpStorm 18 months ago and loving it every day. Free one month trial, worth the bucks for license. And no, I don't get percentage on sales.

bradgrafelman

Drinking whilst programming (or more like programming whilst drinking) brings me back to my college days... I learned that not only does alcohol reduce my ability to think logically, but it also reduces my ability to recognize my reduced ability(ies). I'd somehow managed to convolute what would have been a relatively simple boolean expression into this big huge nasty if() statement that, naturally, contained some logic flaws.

(Cue nerdy math joke: Friends don't let friends drink and derive!)

Bunkermaster

I almost never CUI (code under influence) but sometimes, when around midnight I receive a panicked phone call telling me something exploded and I'm in the middle of a party... I go fix the damn site and am drunk. But I don't make a habit of it. I'm a bit old now for party coding on regular basis!

dalecosp

bradgrafelman;11008817 wrote:
(Cue nerdy math joke: Friends don't let friends drink and derive!)

Can't believe I actually get this...

Bonesnap

Sometimes on a Friday night I really want to code and I really want to drink. So I do both. I've gotten quite good at recognizing when I need to stop (coding, that is 🙂).

dalecosp

Bunkermaster;11008895 wrote:
I almost never CUI (code under influence) but sometimes, when around midnight I receive a panicked phone call telling me something exploded and I'm in the middle of a party... I go fix the damn site and am drunk. But I don't make a habit of it. I'm a bit old now for party coding on regular basis!

Lol. I've got one server that reads another server's site footer every so often to make sure it's still up; if not, I get a text message.

It's a good thing for the most part, but every once in a while someone reboots a router someplace at just the right (wrong?) time --- probably around 3AM.

And I'm a light sleeper these days. Sux0rz for me.....