The Joy of Bugfixing
The last two days Jan
, intern at Mindquarry spent fixing a bug in Cocoon's AJAX form handling. In the end Alexander and I joined him because we had more experience with Cocoon's internals and finally we found and fixed the problem. Having identified a bug, but not the bug's cause or resolution is a terrible feeling. You try this approach, you try that approach, you discuss, consult search engines, and feel more and more incapable of understanding the problem. But once you have found the solution, you feel great, you feel like being able to grasp the most complex technical structures.
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, intern at Mindquarry spent fixing a bug in Cocoon's AJAX form handling. In the end Alexander and I joined him because we had more experience with Cocoon's internals and finally we found and fixed the problem. Having identified a bug, but not the bug's cause or resolution is a terrible feeling. You try this approach, you try that approach, you discuss, consult search engines, and feel more and more incapable of understanding the problem. But once you have found the solution, you feel great, you feel like being able to grasp the most complex technical structures.
I keep saying "Software development is 90% baning a head agains the wall and 10% breaking through the wall". Bug fixing multiples this principle. 99% of the time, the actual bug fixing, searching for the cause and solution makes you feel bad, but the 1% of time when the bug is finally fixed is simply great. The joy of bugfixing outweights the pains of fixing the bug, this is way bug-days when a whole development community spends a day fixing bugs are so popular.
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