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Tue. January 31, 2006
Code programming gremlins
Today I was cruising. The code flowed freely from the very hands that are writing this entry. I'm working on a pretty involved website with a co-worker and our pre-coding planning is paying off. I feel like the roadmap we drew up is almost allowing for the code to write itself. One piece I worked on this afternoon was a particularly hairy one with a database query that nearly went over my head. I pushed through and made it work in a fairly streamlined fashion and had all the data I needed showing up without a hitch. Before the day was through I was IM'ing a bit with Sarah and a co-worker to figure out our plans for the evening. I was a multi-tasking machine since I was doing this and coding that project all while listening to music and chewing gum. Meanwhile, a pack of code gremlins nudged their way into my application and ran amuck. Completely (apparently) distracted, I only re-focused solely on my coding once I realized two separate screens of this website now showed no data at all from that sophisticated query I was so proud to conquer. I spent the last fifteen minutes at work trying to figure out where what had gone wrong without any luck. I wrote the whole thing off for the day and figure by tomorrow my subconscience will have worked out the problem and I'll have an "oh, duh!" moment at work and fix it immediately. At least that's what I hope. ;)
We also had a great time eating Thai food (from Galanga) with our friends Andy and Sarah who recently had a baby. We gave them a gift certificate for one free meal of their choice so they could take a break from all things baby and have a nice dinner out, in. We admired baby, enjoyed catching up over good food, then played a rather evenly matched game of Cranium. Thanks for a relaxing night and for letting us admire your cute baby!
Update (2006-02-01 @ 8:58am)
Just fixed that hunk of code I was having trouble with. Occam's Razor -- it's always the simplest explanation. In this case, I needed only to remove a plural on the end of a variable name. Stupid "s"!
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