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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Works on my Machine
I report a problem to a colleague. After trying and failing to use the “works on my machine” excuse, he comes over to see for himself. He asks to drive so he can do a little debugging on my editor, so I step aside to let him use the keyboard. He squints at the code [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Code Editors,SlickEdit Products by Sandra
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Error Reports: To Send or Not to Send?
Most everyone is familiar with the Microsoft error reporting dialog. It tells you that something terrible has happened with application.exe, and that Windows was forced to terminate it. You’re given a humble apology, as well as a plea to help yourself and users just like you by reporting the problem so it can be fixed. [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Programming by Sandra
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Windows 95, Geocities and a Dog Named Scout
I’ve heard that every meteorologist has a storm, some fantastic show of Nature’s power that made the tiny child heart beat faster with excitement and say, “I want to be a weather man.” It seems that programming has a similar concept, a first time when a young geek hugs the computer after a few hours [...]
