September 02, 2003

My favorite kind of bug fix

One of the reasons I've found it best not to immediately jump on top of really weird bugs is the same reason I reboot my windows box every time something strange happens:

"Oh hey, it turns out that streaming audio wasn't broken after all."

Ta-da
I just saved myself 8 hours of misery by not working on a bug that was probably due to a missing file on the CD.

Posted by matt at September 2, 2003 01:35 PM
Comments

So you just pretend the bug never existed... Thats a strategy :) I will try it next time my clients point out bugs in the product we offer :)

Posted by: Jose Anes at September 11, 2003 04:51 AM

No, the bug never existed, it was a PEBKAC.

If your client turns off the computer in the middle of the demo it doesn't count as your program having crashed.

Posted by: Matt at September 11, 2003 03:15 PM